Alert: Drug Resistant AIDS on the Rise
Drug resistant AIDS is on the rise, at least that’s the assessment of doctors and researchers who are attending the International AIDS conference in 
Washington D.C.
AIDS experts at the conference are encouraging the world’s governments not to cut funding because AIDS mutations, which are resistant to drugs, are on the rise.
From Al Jazeera:
The study indicated that tiny genetic mutations that make HIV immune to key frontline drugs have been increasing in eastern and southern Africa and should be a clear warning to health watchdogs.
Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the European Union, the study is the widest-ever analysis of its kind. It looked at published cases of HIV resistance and supplemented this with data from the World Health Organisation.
Researchers Silvia Bertagnolio from the UN’s WHO and Ravindra Gupta at University College London found that the prevalence of resistant viruses in untreated people soared from around one per cent to 7.3 per cent in eastern Africa, and from one per cent to 3.7 per cent in southern Africa, over an eight-year period.
Similar rates of 3.5-7.6 per cent were also found in western and central Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
The mutations, found in strains of the HIV-1 virus, made them resistant to first-option treatments that are used to control the virus and prevent transmission of it from pregnant women to their foetuses.
“We must resolve together never to go backwards,” said Dr Elly Katabira, president of the International AIDS Society.
“Future generations are counting on our courage to think big, be bold and seize the opportunity before us,” said Dr Diane Havlir of the University of California, San Francisco, a co-chair of the conference.
Researchers say that there is hope on the horizon though because they are developing the ability to make AIDS infected persons less infections, and thus less likely to pass on the disease.
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First, we have drug resistant gonnorhea, now dug resistant AIDS?!! What is the world coming to?! Practice safe s*x, everybody!
first of all,i beieve the mutations are man made so they could
continue to recieve government funding and donations from
the private sectors.if you notice everytime they get closer to a
cure,or have one,all of a sudden a mutation occur.this is man
for the continuation of funding.these people are the devil.
The reason we have drug resistant std strains is simple…gays and irresponsible heterosexuals are still having unprotected s*x.
They refuse to wear condoms because they have lost touch with reality. Why would anybody exchange body fluids in this era?
There is another take on this. There are drugs that are designed to enhance the potency of the designer viruses that are out there.
Have you ever wondered why conditions are treated versus being cured? As long as you are being treated you are still sick and the money rolls into the pockets of the drug manufacturers and the physicians who do front line experimentation on an unsuspecting public. There is a profit motive behind this. And if you die …Oh well.
The treatment was successful but the patient died.
Take care of your health people. Vegetables build. Fruits cleanse. Grains sustain. Herbs heal. You are what you eat.
Remember …anyone you have s*x with you spiritually obtain a copy of and it is with you for the rest of your life. The Russians invested research money into finding this out. It is true not only spiritually but also bio-genetically.