AIDS/HIV
What is AIDS?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/17131.php
Taylor, Adam. "Achieving an AIDS-free Generation by Healing the International Village."Sojourners. N.p., 3 Aug. 2012. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.
How many people in the United States have AIDS?
http://aids.gov/hiv-aids-basics/hiv-aids-101/statistics/
"AIDS." Salk Institute. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
What is HIV?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/17131.php
"What Does HIV and Aids Mean?" What Does HIV and Aids Mean? N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
How are AIDS and HIV related?
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/17131.php
"HIV Positive." HIV Positive. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
How can children get AIDS?
"World AIDS Day and NICHD HIV/AIDS Research." World AIDS Day and NICHD HIV/AIDS Research. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
What does AIDS do to the body?
http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4564085_aids-affect-body.html
"Family Planning." Greene County, NY. N.p., 2012. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
What are two ways doctors are treating AIDS patients?
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hiv-aids/DS00005/DSECTION=treatments-and-drugs
"Special Events." ActionAids. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health, AIDS Activities Coordinating Office, n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2013.
What research is being done to find a cure?
- Identify HIV reservoirs in the body.
- Determine the effects of antiretroviral therapy, chemotherapy, and other strategies on the HIV reservoir.
- Develop assays and model systems, including a nonhuman primate model, to quantify and study HIV latency.
- Characterize viral reservoirs that cause rebounding of viral levels when antiretroviral therapy is stopped.
- Determine the role of HIV integration on virus elimination strategies
- Determine the role of HIV in hematopoietic progenitor cells in regards to cure strategies
- Investigate strategies that lead to purging of the latent reservoir and a cure for HIV/AIDS
How successful has it been?
"U.S. Statistics." Aids.gov. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.