God, AIDS, Africa & HOPE

Reflections / Gedanken

HIV infections down in children, U.N. says

Reducing HIV infections in children is a very important step towards a zero infected generation to come. This figures of Africa are encouraging.

 

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HIV – Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP)

PEP is since introduction in discussions. Some see it as a helpful tool to avoid infection, others think it provides a false safety feeling. Judge for yourself…

 

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Dr Shay Keating has sent us this in-depth view of HIV risk and transmission, and the PEP treatment which can stop the infection after it enters the body 

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Online donation for HOPE Cape Town

HOPE Cape Town strives to make giving a donation as easy as possible. Please have a look at our newly designed donation page with high security for donations via credit card, EFT or by other means. And please spread the word – we are can only be as good as our donors and sponsors are willing to give a hand to those less fortune here in South Africa.

 

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Interesting news giving hope…

Could this be the cure for HIV?: Scientists predict vital breakthrough in fight against AIDS virus, the daily mail online examines the possibilities for the future in HIV/AIDS research
South African clinics already achieving zero new HIV infections in children, NAM aidsmap reports from South Africa and the babies from HIV positive mothers being HIV negative
Three types of HIV cure, AmfAR explains the different approaches in research
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Cure Is On The Way

There is indeed hope on the horizon and it is good to express this hope for the millions infected and affected.  And yes, we should not be overenthusiastic but there is light at the end of the tunnel. And light gives life..

 

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It started with Timothy Brown AKA The Berlin Patient AKA The first Person to be cured of HIV. He found out he was HIV positive in 1995. His life was saved by the medication that made living with HIV a reality. In 2006 he received a new threat to his life, leukemia. he under went chemo therapy just the same as many cancer patients but the leukemia came back. the next step was a bone marrow transplant.

Many years ago there was a documentary on people who were resistant to HIV. It was late one night and I couldn’t sleep so I flipped through the channels and stopped on one with a graphic showing how HIV entered a cd4 cell. I remember them following a man who described how he began to lose all his friends due to complications of AIDS and he noticed that many of them were…

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