| > | | | | Another problem is that the most vaccines are used |
| Have you ever heard anyone saying that AIDS is | | | | to back up the immune system by stimulating it to |
| just a myth? The simple fact that the disease has no | | | | produce antibodies but this does not work with AIDS. |
| treatment and there is very little hope on the horizon | | | | The immune system is already weakened and |
| of any treatment anytime soon! But hope springs | | | | stimulating it will not work. Searching for other |
| eternal in the human breast and researchers are | | | | alternatives took a lot of time and researchers had |
| racing around the clock to find something, anything | | | | to find other strategies to deal with the virus. |
| that will help to cut down the disease and its effects. | | | | Researchers have now focused on SIV that is a |
| If you are one of the thousands that are with the | | | | similar variant to AIDS but attacks on animals. The |
| disease then it’s a good idea to keep track of | | | | SIV variant has similar symptoms in primates but it |
| nearly every clinical trial that is around. You can | | | | never progresses to cause a weakened immune |
| volunteer for clinical trials and find out the status of | | | | system. |
| AIDS research at the same time too. Here are a few | | | | Although there have been a few attenuated vaccines |
| simple tips about finding out exactly how you can | | | | been created to target the virus; these have not |
| keep updated about AIDS research and clinical trials in | | | | worked on humans. The same variant of vaccine was |
| the country- | | | | created for SIV infected primates and it has worked! |
| AIDS vaccines are still undergoing rigorous testing to | | | | Researchers have now used the SIV virus as the |
| ensure that they are viable for human use and are | | | | model on which they can test the HIV infection. |
| useful to the human body. But researchers are still | | | | The only problem at present is that the spread of |
| eons away from anything that is really viable for | | | | the virus is taking place very fast with thousands of |
| human use. The main reason for this is that the virus | | | | patient’s suffering from the disease and |
| mutates easily. The antibodies that are created by | | | | thousands more dying everyday. At present, till a |
| the body or the virus cannot deal with the rapidly | | | | vaccine becomes available, prevention is the only |
| changing face of the virus. | | | | way that the disease can be limited. |