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05/23/2013 • 7:43 am Comments Off on Online donation for HOPE Cape Town

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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05/01/2013 • 8:31 am Comments Off on Interesting news giving hope…

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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04/27/2013 • 4:15 pm Comments Off on Cure Is On The Way

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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04/23/2013 • 8:01 am Comments Off on More Resources Are Needed for Pediatric AIDS

More Resources Are Needed for Pediatric AIDS

Especially for Southern Africa it is true: More resources, more research for pediatric AIDS needed…

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In recent years, in developing countries, adults infected with HIV have had greater access to treatment. But UNAIDS says children still lag behind in accessing antiretroviral drugs, especially those formulated just for children. It warns that most who go untreated will die by their fifth birthday.

The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation says progress is being made in preventing new infections in children. It says there’s been a 24 percent reduction in new infections since 2009. Much of that is due to providing antiretrovirals to more HIV positive pregnant women.

Nevertheless, there’s much more to be done.

“We still have way too many children being infected and just in sub-Saharan Africa last year there were 300,000 kids with new infections. That’s way too many. So, we have the new infections and we’re having problems in identifying those kids and getting them on…

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04/17/2013 • 8:03 pm Comments Off on Why Circumcision Lowers Risk of HIV

Why Circumcision Lowers Risk of HIV

Circumcision is a tool to combat HIV. But it is also a very much debated tool where opinions about efficiency clash hard. Here an article which might give some more insight into the question of circumcision.

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