AIDS 'could be eliminated in our lifetime'

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HIV treatment as prevention strategy considered a "game changer" but lack of funding prevents implementation.
Meera Dalal Last Modified: 31 Mar 2012 18:43


When Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, Director of the Louis Pasteur Institute in France and winner of the Nobel Prize in 2008 for her discovery of HIV, first isolated the HIV virus in 1982, she had no idea she had stumbled onto the greatest epidemic of our time.

"Initially, we thought only a small group of people were affected by the disease," Barre-Sinoussi told Al Jazeera. "Very naively, we did not realise the magnitude of the epidemic."

She was right to be wary. Since then, 60 million people have been infected with HIV and over 30 million have died, akin to half the population of the United Kingdom.

But Barre-Sinoussi was not easily disheartened. "I believe in science. If not now, in the long term, we will find other strategies. My dream is to see the end of HIV before I die."

Her belief was not unfounded.

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[xchrom]

1. du rec. nt

[Ian David]

2. Giant bisexual orgy at my house when that happens! n/t

[demosincebirth]

3. Not to overshadow the imprortance of AIDS, but cancer is on the top of my list priorities.