final program.qxd - Parallels Plesk Panel

Thus, for some, HIV no longer produces a predictable death. Rather, with therapy HIV is
often a chronic disease with far less morbidity. Furthermore, pediatric AIDS in the
industrial world is almost over. However, the good news is quickly tempered by: (1) the
emergence of HIV drug resistant mutants; (2) the toxicity of drugs when used and needed
for years and probably for life-time; (3) the rise in cancer incidence in infected persons; (4)
the increasing epidemic in some populations in Western nations; (5) the increasing
numbers of doubly infected people with TB or HCV and HIV, and their worse prognosis;
(6) the still considerable uncertainty of the future of the epidemic; (7) the lack of
preventive vaccine; and (8) lastly, and most important, the dramatic epidemic in parts of
the world that provide an enormous financial and infrastructure challenge.
I will use this presentation to: (1) to discuss some of the lessons from the early period
(before and just after AIDS, and subsequently HIV, were recognized); (2) summarize some
of HIV's pathogenic mechanisms; (3) describe the drug therapy programs of the Institute
of Human Virology with developing nations; and (4) outline a path to a preventive
vaccine.
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