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Messe Wien Conference Center at the Start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna
With a special rancor reserved for the United States and president Barack Obama, hundreds of AIDS activists and people living with AIDS marched en masse through the Messe Wien conference center at the start of the XVIII International AIDS conference (AIDS 2010) in Vienna, demanding more money for AIDS funding.
The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon emphasised that the ‘MDGS are indivisible’ and the conference co-chairs, Brigitte Schmied and Julio Montaner, reminded that without more resources the international health and HIV communities will be forced to make ‘agonising choices between who can live and who must die’.
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HIV Treatment
HIV is a rare type of virus called a retrovirus, and drugs designed to disrupt the action of HIV are known as antiretrovirals or ARVs. They come in a variety of formulations designed to act at different stages of the life cycle of HIV.
The AIDS virus mutates rapidly, making it very adept at developing resistance to drugs. To minimize this risk, people living with HIV are usually treated with a combination of antiretroviral drugs that attack the virus on several fronts at once. Read the rest of this entry »