Question

This week we are going to talk about HIV and AIDS. What are the latest developments? What are the challenges today? What will the future look like? Do some reading and research and come and share what you have learned. Let us know something about (a) a new development or (b) challenges in the war on AIDS from a science or people or society perspective. (c) What will the future of AIDS look like? Why do you think that?

Answer 1

NEW DEVELOPMENT IN HIV?AIDS : AIDS ( ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) is a disease caused by a virus called HIV (HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS). The earliest signs of HIV in men allows a prompt diagnosis that allows people with HIV to receive effective antiretroviral treatment and a highly effective tests in reducing the amount of active virus in the body. However, new developments are being practicing in improving the vaccination to prevent the disease but the virus reactivate as soon as the treatment ceases. CHALLENGES IN AIDS ON SCIENCE, PEOPLE AND SOCIETY: The main reason for the increase in challenges in these field is a) poverty ( lack of income and consumption) and b) underdevelopment. Poverty is much more than a lack of income in which the people donot have the money to protect oneself from HIV like infections. Another challenge is poor education. For instance, the HIV infected mothers are often unaware of the risk of passing the infections to their children through breast feeding. Underdevelopment is the another way of getting infection from other infected persons. Developing countries government helps the country people to aware of the disease by giving free medical treatment, education, clean water and sanitation facilities. WHAT WILL THE FUTURE OF AIDS LOOK LIKE? Ther are several approaches are being carried out in the field of curing HIV by effective treatments but there is no information on whether the virus will be able to become resistant. So these functional treatment on cure has reached the final stage and will meet the goal of having HIV cure in the future. There have been improvements on antiretroviral drugs and HIV vaccines and helps the people to live a healthy life and medication-free by wiping the virus completely in the coming years. In addition to this, understanding the HIV virus is the key strategy in eradicating the amount the virus in the human body.