Monday 4 March 2013

[wanabidii] Fw: A baby, cured of AIDS.

Dear all,
Kate is my friend, is a  person from U.S.
We thank God for the reached step.

Regards,

Mpendwa Abinery Chihimba
Executive Chairperson - Women Fighting AIDS in Tanzania( WOFATA )


--- On Mon, 3/4/13, AIDS Policy Project <kate@aidspolicyproject.org> wrote:

From: AIDS Policy Project <kate@aidspolicyproject.org>
Subject: A baby, cured of AIDS.
To: "Mpendwa Abinery" <mpendwac@yahoo.com>
Date: Monday, March 4, 2013, 11:22 AM

Hi Mpendwa --

We're pretty happy about this baby who was discovered to have been cured of AIDS; the info was released yesterday in Atlanta at the Retroviruses Conference. I wrote this blog post about it that I'll be putting on our web site shortly.

By the way--If you have a question for any of the researchers at the conference, let us know and we'll get you an answer--one of our members is there, John James, and he's updating us constantly on what's happening at the conference.

In solidarity,

Katie Krauss
For Ray Jacinto, Jose Demarco, Griffin Boyce, Kelsey Reenstra, and all the members of the AIDS Policy Project
Pushing for a cure for this generation.

A Baby, Cured of AIDS

Timothy Ray Brown, the first person cured of AIDS, often ends his talks by saying:

"My dream is not to be the man who stands before you and says, 'I am cured,' but to be the man who stands before you and says, 'We are cured.'"

This is what we're fighting for. This is what we want for everyone.

Yesterday, a little of that dream came true, when it was revealed that a baby has been cured of AIDS.  It was not an intentional cure; her mother learned that she was HIV-positive too late for prenatal AIDS drugs, and her treatment, an intense regimen of antiretrovirals, began 30 hours after her birth.

But her cure helps smash through the old idea that this disease will never end.

Yet despite encouraging research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spends only 3% of its AIDS research budget searching for a cure. There have been small increases in funding, but scientists are still lined up waiting for money to start their studies--money that may never arrive.

Private foundations, new US government funding streams, and foreign governments must fund this science.  Most private foundations don't yet realize that they could make a difference in AIDS cure research or advocacy.

The Gates Foundation and the ONE Campaign could literally change the world if they join the push for a cure for AIDS. The situation remains urgent: Millions of people are struggling to stay alive living with AIDS. Over 330,000 babies are born every year with the disease.

All of us who care about AIDS must band together to push for a cure for everyone--as soon as possible.

We have so much to win if we do.

Read this article in the New York Times about the case of the baby who was unexpectedly cured of AIDS.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/health/for-first-time-baby-cured-of-hiv-doctors-say.html?hp&_r=0
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