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I am on disability pension but do HIV-AIDS Education & Awareness & Living with HIV Talks at local places of education & i do out-reach work at night.I am always happy to do the talks,afterwords is cool as 9/10 all the students will come up & continue to ask Q ,saying how it takes guts to stand in front of a class & tell your life story & to keep up the great work on staying clean off of coke heroin & speed.(3 yrs) & so where i once was part of the problem i am now part of the solution.My faith in GOD & Jesus was not misplaced,& so i take 1 day at a time.i forgot to mention that i did have hep-c but found out recntly that i am no longer hep-c +!!!i Thank GOD EVERYDAY!!

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SELENIUM CHEAP SUPPLEMENT THAT WORKS SLOWING DOWN HIV VIRUS-STUDY FINDS!

WE MUST MAKE THE SWITCH FROM GAS TO HYDROGEN POWERED ENGINES AS FAST AS WE CAN!THE SOONER THE BETTER THE NICER THE WEATHER!!PEACE N LOVE NOT WARS N WALLS EH FOLKS~Selenium supplementation slows HIV progression
November 1, 2007

This study looked specifically at selenium supplementation and how it affects progression of HIV. (As usual, the scientific evidence builds up over time: earlier research had already produced some findings about the role of selenium in immune system function, and its potential benefit for people with HIV.)

The 2007 finding: a daily supplement of selenium can “suppress the progression of HIV-1 viral burden and provide indirect improvement of CD4 count.” And the study results “support the use of selenium as a simple, inexpensive, and safe adjunct therapy in HIV spectrum disease.”

Interestingly, the study found that selenium supplementation was beneficial regardless of factors such as past drug use, time since HIV diagnosis, adherence to antiretroviral medication, and infection with hepatitis C. So–a very general usefulness for this supplement for slowing progression of HIV.


“Suppression of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Viral Load With Selenium Supplementation.”
Barry E. Hurwitz; Johanna R. Klaus; Maria M. Llabre; Alex Gonzalez; Peter J. Lawrence; Kevin J. Maher; Jeffrey M. Greeson; Marianna K. Baum; Gail Shor- Posner; Jay S. Skyler; Neil Schneiderman.
Arch Intern Med. 2007;167:148-154.
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Spam Mail Fight HIV-AIDS??A Vaccine might be the Result

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How can spam e-mail help fight HIV?
by Josh Clark

Inside This Article
1. How can spam e-mail help fight HIV? 2. "World of Warcraft" and Epidemiology 3. Lots More Information 4. See all Diseases and Conditions articles
In 2006, as many as 3.5 million people died from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), bringing the total of deaths from this disease since 1981 to more than 25 million [source: Avert.org].

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS, attacks healthy immune cells and uses them to duplicate itself. AIDS, the final stage of HIV infection, can weaken a person's immune system so much, he could die from a cold.


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In 2006, HIV infections killed as many as 3.5 million people.


But there's hope for wiping out this disease, and it may be sitting in your e-mail inbox right now. Efforts to wipe out unwanted spam e-mails could provide the key to ending the AIDS epidemic. Researchers at computer software giant Microsoft are in clinical trials testing the same technology used to create spam-blocking programs against HIV.

Spammers -- people and companies who create junk e-mails -- have found that traditional spam-blocking software works off a list of flagged words. When spam blockers identify these words, they reroute affected e-mail from your inbox to your spam folder.

To get around this, spammers can simply spell words in a way that humans can recognize, but which computers don't. For example, if a spammer uses the word "pharmaceuticals," the e-mail will be blocked. But the spammer can spell "pharmaceutical" as "ph@rm@ceut1cal" to circumvent the spam filter.

Score one for the spammers.

Antispam developers realized that to combat this they would have to calculate all of the possible ways that every single word could be spelled using combinations of letters, symbols and numbers. With all of the different possible combinations for each, this adds up to a lot of work. But Microsoft researchers came up with a breakthrough.

The team developed an algorithm -- a mathematical formula -- that reduces the time it takes to come up with every possible combination for a set of words from one year down to a day. With this algorithm, the researchers are not only able to develop a top-notch spamware product, they have now set their sights on using that same algorithm to ridding the world of HIV.

David Heckerman, one of the Microsoft team's leaders, is not only a computer scientist, he's also a physician. He realized that the same theory used to block spam could also be used to kill HIV. After all, spam and HIV work in similar ways. When HIV attacks an immune cell, it creates thousands of replicas of itself. These aren't exact replicas, though. Each one is a slight variation on the original, and each of these goes on to attack more and more cells, each time replicating into mutated versions of the virus.

This makes it difficult to design a vaccine to kill HIV. To create a vaccine, scientists include antibodies that look for specific strains of HIV. Subtle mutations of the virus not targeted by the vaccine may survive, much as the spam blocker allows junk e-mail to pass through when it doesn't see any flagged words.

The Microsoft researchers hope to apply their antispam algorithm to HIV to calculate each possible HIV mutation. If they succeed, they can then provide HIV vaccine researchers with this data, and vaccines can include antibodies designed to kill all -- not just some -- of the mutated viruses.

Video Gallery: A New Approach to HIV Education

Health education is one of the greatest tools in the fight against HIV/AIDS. In Malaysia, UNICEF works with soccer squads to teach players about the the deadly virus and how it works. This video from UNICEF has more information.




Spam may prove to be the springboard for of the development of a vaccine for HIV, and strange as that may seem, this is not the first time computers working on something unrelated to medicine have helped medical researchers study the effects of disease. Read the next page to find out other ways in which the virtual world is helping epidemiologists

Dr to Talk onb CHANGING Behavior for HIV Prevention!!!

THE CUP BELONGS IN CANADA<& ALWAYS WILL!Talk to address HIV prevention in Africa

October 5, 2007

Dr. Rajiv Rimal, an expert on communication and public health issues, will discuss "Promoting Behavior Change for HIV Prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa” at 3 p.m. Oct. 23 at Wake Forest University.

The lecture will be held in Carswell Hall’s Annenberg Forum and is free and open to the public.

Rimal, associate professor at The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, studies the best ways to communicate health risk information to the public in order to maximize its effectiveness.

Rimal’s research involves HIV prevention programs in three countries in Africa: Malawi, Uganda and Ethiopia. His talk will focus on strategies that are currently being used in that effort. He is the current chair of the Health Communication division of the National Communication Association.

Part of the “Great Teachers” lecture series, the talk is sponsored by Wake Forest’s communication department. For information, call (336) 758-4442.