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Aids Research. AIDS Research Amy Langton All AIDS research should be funded by the
government. ... Furthermore, research to stop the spread of AIDS must be done. ...
AIds Research. This study used content analysis to identify dominant AIDS-HIV themes
in the manifest news content of AP, Reuters, AFP, ITAR-TASS, and IPS. ...
AIDS Research. ... The lack of effective vaccines and antiviral drugs for AIDS has spurred
speculation that the funding for AIDS research is insufficient. ...
AIDS Research in Africa: What can the UN do to help? Bombs can be dropped
in many forms all over the world, it does not have to ...
... The development of a safe and effective vaccine to prevent HIV infection is
among the highest priorities for the AIDS research effort. ...
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AIDS
I INTRODUCTION
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), specific group of diseases or conditions that result from suppression of the immune system, related to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A person infected with HIV gradually loses immune function along with certain immune cells called CD4 T-lymphocytes or CD4 T-cells, causing the infected person to become vulnerable to pneumonia, fungus infections, and other common ailments. With the loss of immune function, a clinical syndrome (a group of various illnesses that together characterize a disease) develops over time and eventually results in death due to opportunistic infections (infections by organisms that do not normally cause disease except in people whose immune systems have been greatly weakened) or cancers.
In the early 1980s deaths by opportunistic infections, previously observed mainly in organ transplant recipients receiving therapy to suppress their immune responses, were recognized in otherwise healthy homosexual men. In 1983 French cancer specialist Luc Montagnier and scientists at the Pasteur Institute in Paris isolated what appeared to be a new human retrovirus—a special type of virus that reproduces differently from other viruses—from the lymph node of a man at risk for AIDS (see Lymphatic System). Nearly simultaneously, scientists working in the laboratory of American research scientist Robert Gallo at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, and a group headed by American virologist Jay Levy at the University of California at San Francisco isolated a retrovirus from people with AIDS and from individuals having contact with people with AIDS. All three groups of scientists isolated what is now known as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.
Infection with HIV does not necessarily mean that a person has AIDS, although people who are HIV-positive are often mistakenly said to...
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