A New Aids Plan For Americans And New Hopes For A Vaccine

Video Title: (A New Aids Plan For Americans And New Hopes For A Vaccine)
Video Duration: 3:55
From: VOALearningEnglish
Category: Education
this is the voa special english health report, from voaspecialenglish | the obama administration announced its national hiv aids strategy in july. the plan aims to reduce new hiv infections by twenty-five percent within five years. it also aims to make sure infected patients get treatment more quickly. hiv is the virus that causes aids. the government says sixty-five percent of americans who discover they are infected get treatment within three months. the new plan calls for increasing that to eighty-five percent. thirty million dollars from the health care reform law is to go to support prevention activities, including expanded hiv testing. over one million americans are living with the virus, out of an estimated thirty-three million people worldwide. in july, government scientists in the united states announced the discovery of two antibodies that raise hopes for an aids vaccine. they say these antibodies can stop more than ninety percent of all known strains of hiv. antibodies are proteins that the body makes to help protect itself against infection. researchers made the discovery at the national insute of allergy and infectious diseases. the director of its vaccine research center, gary nabel, says each antibody blocks the virus from attaching to white blood cells. the antibodies were discovered in a man, known as donor 45, whose body produced them naturally. patients with hiv must take medicine all their lives to prevent aids. combinations of drugs are ltbgt...lt bgt
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