Scientists in Australia know how to stop the AIDS epidemic
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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At the Australian Research University, a group of scientists said that AIDS should no longer be feared - this disease can now be successfully treated. According to scientists in Australia, AIDS averaged 1000 deaths a year on average, but recently the situation has radically changed due to the work of local doctors. One of the professors of the Kirby Institute, Andrew Grülich, noted that now the country does not even monitor the spread and course of the disease, since a person diagnosed with HIV simply receives the necessary treatment and forgets the disease forever.
But it should be noted that, despite the successful treatment of this fatal disease, new cases of HIV infection continue to occur and every year in Australia more than 1000 new infections are registered.
According to the head of the institute, many patients with HIV have not been aware of their status for many years and the disease is diagnosed most often at the AIDS stage or when the immunity is already significantly weakened. This problem was solved by specialists of Kirby Institute.
AIDS is the last stage of the human immunodeficiency virus, during the development of the disease, human immunity is significantly weakened and a common cold can be fatal for a person. However, in HIV carriers, the disease does not go to the final stage. At the end of the 1990s, an antiretroviral drug was invented, which played a major role in reducing the percentage of people who had HIV transitioned to the final, fatal stage.
According to doctors, the main problem of modern society is that the virus of immunodeficiency is revealed too late and at this stage it is necessary to exert maximum efforts to solve this problem.
To rid humanity of HIV, scientists intend to develop a unique method of treatment - simply cut out the genes of the immunodeficiency virus from human DNA, thereby completely removing the disease from the body.
In the last couple of decades, the HIV epidemic has been observed on the earth, more and more new cases are registered every year and if earlier the disease was detected among people at risk (prostitutes, homosexuals, etc.), today HIV is detected in people from 30 to 50 years old, with an average or high income, from quite decent families.
Also, the path of infection changed - a few years ago the disease was transmitted mainly through sexual intercourse, today - through injecting drugs.
Experts emphasize that HIV is not fatal - the virus simply destroys human immunity, as a result, AIDS develops and the body remains vulnerable to other infections that lead to death. According to doctors, HIV can not be cured, but it can live for many years with the condition of constant intake of special drugs that help keep the virus "under control."
HIV does not show any symptoms, many people do not even know that they are sick, so they can be dangerous for the health of others. The main way of transmission of the disease through the use of injecting drugs (especially if you use one syringe) and sexually (unprotected sex).
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