is it possable to cure hiv/aids
r were humans smart enough to cure it? Short Answer: Yes, in my opinion, it's entirely possible to cure Aids/HIV.
If I could, I'd explain a step by step walk through on how to cure it, but, well, I don't know how.
But take a look at where we are now compared to when it first began its rapid spreading.
We know what causes it, we know how it spreads, we believe we even know the approximate location of the monkey that was eaten that transferred the virus to humans.
We have treatments that aren't cures, but greatly impede the virus's growth and can even prevent the HIV to AIDS transition altogether.
I'll be anyone $20 that in two decades, there'll be, at least, a vaccine. People were stupid enough to start it!
You do know it was started by people having sex with animals!
So possibly this will never go away as our punishment for being immoral! Yes not right now, we can only help the help the symtoms. Again with the STD questions.....did ya sleep through sex ed class? Guess you don't know how to read either huh?
STD/STI STATISTICS > Fast Facts
Estimating how many STD cases occur is not a simple or straightforward task. First, most STDs can be "silent," causing no noticeable symptoms. These asymptomatic infections can be diagnosed only through testing. Unfortunately, routine screening programs are not widespread, and social stigma and lack of public awareness concerning STDs often inhibits frank discussion between health care providers and patients about STD risk and the need for testing.
-- ASHA. Sexually Transmitted Diseases in America: How Many Cases and at What Cost? December 1998.
More than half of all people will have an STD at some point in their lifetime. [1]
The estimated total number of people living in the US with a viral STD is over 65 million. [2] Every year, there are at least 15 million new cases of STDs, some of which are curable. [2,3]
More than $8 billion is spent each year to diagnose and treat STDs and their complications. This figure does not include HIV. [4]
In a national survey of US physicians, fewer than one-third routinely screened patients for STDs. [5]
Less than half of adults ages 18 to 44 have ever been tested for an STD other than HIV/AIDS.
Each year, one in four teens contracts an STD. [6]
One in two sexually active persons will contact an STD by age 25. [7]
About half of all new STDs in 2000 occurred among youth ages 15 to 24. [8] The total estimated costs of these nine million new cases of these STDs was $6.5 billion, with HIV and human papillomavirus (HPV) accounting for 90% of the total burden. [9]
Of the STDs that are diagnosed, only some (gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, hepatitis A and B) are required to be reported to state health departments and the CDC.
One out of 20 people in the United States will get infected with hepatitis B (HBV) some time during their lives. [10] Hepatitis B is 100 times more infectious than HIV. [11]
Approximately half of HBV infections are transmitted sexually. [12] HBV is linked to chronic liver disease, including cirrhosis and liver cancer.
Hepatitis A and hepatitis B are the only two vaccine-preventable STDs.
It is estimated that as many as one in four Americans have genital herpes, a lifelong (but manageable) infection, yet up to 90 percent of those with herpes are unaware they have it. [13] With more than 50 million adults in the US with genital herpes and up to 1.6 million new infections each year, some estimates suggest that by 2025 up to 40% of all men and half of all women could be infected. [14,15,16]
Over 6 million people acquire HPV each year, and by age 50, at least 80 percent of women will have acquired genital HPV infection. [17] Most people with HPV do not develop symptoms. Some researchers believe that HPV infections may self-resolve and may not be lifelong like herpes. [2]
Cervical cancer in women, while preventable through regular Paps, is linked to high-risk types of HPV.
Each year, there are almost 3 million new cases of chlamydia, many of which are in adolescents and young adults. [8] The CDC recommends that sexually active females 25 and under should be screened at least once a year for chlamydia, even if no symptoms are present.
About two-thirds of young females believe doctors routinely screen teens for chlamydia. [18] However, in 2003 only 30% of women 25 and under with commercial health care plans and 45% in Medicaid plans were screened for chlamydia. [19]
At least 15 percent of all American women who are infertile can attribute it to tubal damage caused by pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) , the result of an untreated STD. Consistent condom use reduces the risk of recurrent PID and related complications: significantly, women who reported regular use of condoms in one study were 60 percent less likely to become infertile. [20]
Consistent condom use provides substantial protection against the acquisition of many STDs, including statistically significant reduction of risk against HIV, chlamydia, gonorrhea, herpes, and syphilis. [21,22,23]
Some studies show that, for those who already have a clinically apparent genital HPV infection, using condoms promotes the regression of HPV lesions in both women and men. [24,25]
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Page last updated May 3, 2006 i hope not becouse i belive aids is a direct punishment from filthy lifes that some people live and some inosent people get it to thats just life. if u worry about it and dont have it yet. just dont have sex befor ur married and dont do druggs and only marry someone oposite gender of u We are as smart as God wants us to be. Remember, we have to control the population somehow. Do you honestly think there's not a cure for HIV/Aids, diabetes, cancer, etc. It is a good source for making money as well. People will spend their last dime to feel better or be cured. Think about it.... I think there is already a cure for HIV as well as cancer, but the government has to control the population somehow right?? some people in Africa are not affected by hiv like most people are, they don't get sick because their bodies fight it successfully, so there is hope that one day humans will be able to cure it for everyone else. but for right now the best thing to do is to protect yourself the best you can, don't let anyone do something to you that will put you in harms way, it's like caner, most people don't worry about it until they get it, but unlike cancer your can protect yourself from hiv, someone else's body fluids don't need to be in your body without you knowing that they are HIV free. but how many people you know have many partners, and do they have hiv, or when will it show up, some times it takes a long time, but you didn't know you had it because you didn't they had it and they didn't know they had it because they didn't care to protect themselves or any one else. So protect yourself because no one else will. PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.
Are we humans smart enough to prevent HIV transmission?
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