HIV Immune

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Alcoholism rehab and its successful medication

Alcohol rehab and effective treatment for alcoholism

Alcoholism:
Alcoholism is a disease which has a tremendous effect on person’s health, family life and social networks. This disease can lead to many frustrations in the patient’s life as well as family life.

Alcohol Rehab:
Alcohol Rehab is a program which helps in bringing the end for the alcohol dependency life-cycle and can make the person feel free from the habit of alcoholism. But to break the dependency of alcohol the person requires lot of courage and should have a control over his feelings. Alcohol rehabs make a person effort easy to make him free from his/her habit of alcoholism.

Methods used by alcohol rehabs:
These types of programs do an end to end research to find out the reason as why the person has become addicted to alcohol and try to solve the problem If the problem behind alcoholism I not solved or understood clearly then there are chances that the patients can again become addicted to this habit in near future.

Most of the alcohol rehab program covers three main stages to make the person free from alcoholism. These three stages are alcohol detox which is followed by giving counseling to the concerned person and to his family and make him/her emotionally strong and the last stage is aftermath.

These programs are divided into courses based on the person dependency on alcoholism and during the treatment it is made sure that his/her relation with the outer world is not disturbed. In these programs counseling is provided even to the family so that they are not treating the patients badly and also told them the reason behind his/her alcoholism habit.

There are several good rehabilitation centers and Alcohol Rehab Dual Diagnosis, is one among them which provides the treatment to the patients by covering various aspects such as inspiring the patient for these programs, making them aware of the advantages for such program and providing the counseling to the concern person and his/her family and why their support is mandatory in those programs and to make it a success.

Fighting Aids with it`s own weapon – that’s the idea of  €‹Leor Weinberger biochemist at the University of San Diego. Weinberger has a virus that made the HIV/AIDS more difficult to reproduce. This treatment is especially good for people who have no access to conventional medicine. In sub-Saharan Africa, treatment with the virus reduces the number of patients with AIDS for 96% (!)

Attenuated virus competes with AIDS

It works as follows: patients have a weakened and genetically modified variant of the HIV virus administered. This variant binds to the same proteins as HIV. There is less room for HIV to develop itself, there is a competition between viruses and malicious HIV remains weaker. For the individual patient, this means that it would take five to ten years longer for  an existing HIV infection to develops into AIDS. For the population of Sub, the virus can provide a sharp decline in AIDS. In 50 years time, the number of patients decreased by 96%.

The drug is particularly suitable for remote areas or groups that are difficult to reach with conventional medicine, such as sex workers and drug users.

Research in testing phase

The investigation has not been tested on humans. It should also be figured out whether the virus is not worse than the disease itself and is also harmful as it mixes with other genetic material in the body. But Weinberger is optimistic: for polio, there is a similar drug that functions properly. So why not forAIDS?  Read the rest of this entry »

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Center for Combating AIDS in the Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem discovered a great hope for people suffering from AIDS with a desire to have healthy children in the future.

Their laboratory specialized in fertility has developed a new method in order to “cleanse” the sperm of men who are infected.

Married couples who are interested, already started the treatment in the clinic. A prof. Maayan, director of the Center, predicted that this means hope for all the people who are carriers of HIV.

What led to this new methodology, is the research result of the large number of experts from various fields of medicine, support (donation) and cooperation with similar laboratories in Marseilles and Atlanta.

This gives hope for many parents. It also helps to stop transmission of infection to the future generations. Read the rest of this entry »