AIDS
is the final stage of HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. HIV virus attacks
the immune system in a way that it destroys the healthy white blood cells
(CD4+) T cells, which are crucial for fighting off infections in the body. When
these healthy cells are destroyed, patients of HIV get prone to other serious
diseases and infections.
ART,
antiretroviral therapy is the treatment used for this disease. It is a combination of HIV medicines regimen.
Although, ART can’t cure the disease completely, it does help the patients in
living a healthier and longer life.
Over
the past several years, the researchers have learnt a lot about HIV/AIDS.
Despite of rigorous research being done on HIV/AIDS millions of people whose
health continues to be threatened by the universal HIV/AIDS pandemic. World
AIDS’ day is celebrated on the 1st of December every year for
educating the common people and helping the effects.
There
are 3.4 million children affected with HIV worldwide, according to WHO, while
91% of them are in the Saharan-Africa region.
Majority of these children get affected of HIV get infected from their
HIV-infected mothers during pregnancy, emphasizing the need of infant HIV
treatment.
Recently,
good news has surfaced that an infant, a 3 year old girl from Mississippi, who
was born with HIV has been almost cured, and is in remission for 18 months. If
antiretroviral treatment started within the first hours or days of infection,
remission can be achieved.
To
read further about HIV/AIDS, you can visit Bentham Science Publishers journals
online. It is a reputable scientific and medical journal publication, having a
number of credible journals and eBooks on revolving around; natural science,
medicine, information technology etc. For instance, “Soluble Factors Mediating
Innate Immune Responses to HIV Infection” is a published eBook, focused on
interaction between innate immunity and HIV infection.
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