New about AIDS

Millions against the disease

English and American scientists are developing a new method of treating AIDS, based on transfusion of patients with blood serum donors who are carriers of the virus, but who do not have symptoms of the disease. By the way, at present the Medical Research Council of Great Britain spends about 7 million pounds sterling per year on the study of the disease, in 1992-1993 the amount will increase to 16 million pounds sterling. The symptoms of AIDS are here.

Treat until it's too late

Doctors changed the view taken earlier on the development of AIDS, and in particular for the long hidden period of the disease. If it was believed that people who are infected with the virus but who do not have symptoms of the disease, AIDS may not develop, but now experts have concluded that with time, almost all infected become ill.

A gloomy conclusion, but it turned out that a prolonged latent period of the disease can be used against it, and 90 percent of deaths can be prevented if appropriate measures are taken in a timely manner. Experts argue that it is too late to treat AIDS after the onset of symptoms of the disease. Treatment should be combined: medicine, diet, psychotherapy. All this in 5-10 times reduces the destructive effect of the virus, which can cause many thousands of people to fall in for a "breather" for a time until radical methods of fighting are created.

viruses Scientists at the University of California in San Francisco have found that the hepatitis B virus can activate the genes of the AIDS virus and accelerate the course of the disease. Preventive vaccine against hepatitis B can also have an action directed against AIDS.Scientists also found a great similarity between hepatitis B and AIDS, Both diseases are transmitted through sexual intercourse and through the blood, more than 90 percent of AIDS patients are infected with hepatitis B. Other viruses capable of activating the AIDS virus have been detected, such as the herpes virus and giant cell virus.

Avoid stresses

The French consider the liver to be the cause of all diseases, the English are the intestines, the Americans stress. Recent research shows that stress can also affect people infected with the AIDS virus. While scientists do not have data on the dependence of a person's neurophysical state and the state of his immune system, it is proved: relaxation and psychotherapy can contribute to prolonging the life span of people infected with the AIDS virus.

Three forms of the

epidemic According to the World Health Organization, more than 250,000 cases of AIDS are now registered worldwide. In addition, 5-6 million people are carriers of the virus, which means that over the next five years, AIDS will affect another million people.»

There are three forms of the epidemic. For example, in the US and France, mostly homosexuals and drug addicts who use intravenous drug addiction are ill. In Central, South and East Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, mainly heterosexual men and women are infected, their number is almost the same. In Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, in some regions of Asia and the Pacific, the number of patients is relatively small so far, but the threat of spreading the epidemic is real for these regions.

Ozone kills HIV

Ozone therapy can become an effective weapon against AIDS.In laboratory studies, it has been proven that ozone kills AIDS viruses. Due to its antiseptic properties, ozone was used for disinfection even during the First World War, but after the discovery of antibiotics, doctors' interest in it fell.

In the San Francisco Veterans Administration Medical Center, ozone, administered through the rectum to AIDS patients, caused a significant decrease in the number of viruses in the blood, stimulated the defenses of the body.