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 Tags: "Most Linked", Economic "economics", "economic growth", "economic news", "economic development", "economic calendar", "economic indicators", "economic profit", "economic value added", "economic systems", "", Economic Talk Annaysis Inspirational Documentary Finance Singing Conspiracy Guitar Bollywood Middle East Arabic Subles Howto Economy Health Speech Discussion Religious Music Pop Singer Video Log Middle Eastern Music Politics Teen Music Vlog Commentary Religion Gospel Turkish Music Hindi Music Spirituality Talking Interview Instruction
Video Title: (Researchers In South Africa Announce A New Weapon In Aids Fight) Video Duration: 4:03 From: VOALearningEnglish Category: Education this is the voa special english health report, from voaspecialenglish | south african researchers at the international aids conference in vienna, austria have announced major progress in the fight against the disease. the researchers say their study shows a vaginal gel substance reduced the risk of hiv infection among women who used it. the gel contains tenofovir. this is a common anti-retroviral drug used to treat people with hiv, the virus that causes aids. the study was done by south african scientists with the center for the aids program of research in south africa. it involved almost nine hundred ually active women between the ages of eighteen and forty. all were from kwazulu-natal, south africa. half were given the gel containing tenofovir. the other half were given a gel without an active substance. they were told to use the gels twelve hours before ual intercourse and again within twelve hours after .both groups were told the gels were experimental. they were advised to use another form of hiv prevention.the study lasted thirty months. women who used the tenofovir gel reduced their risk of hiv infection by thirty-nine percent. and the study found that the women who used the gel more often had even better results. women who used the gel more than eighty percent of the times when they had had fifty-four percent fewer hiv infections. the scientists say the tenofovir gel was also effective against another ually spread disease. the gel reduced ltbgt...lt bgt Tags: "Top Rated", Urdu "urdupoint", "urdu poetry", "urdu news", "urdu dictionary", "urdu kahani", "urdu to english dictionary", "urdu123", "urdu sms", "urdu funda", "", Urdu Music Smart Phones Christianity Economic News Talk Annaysis Inspirational Documentary Wireless Finance Singing Gadgets Middle East Arabic Subles Howto Economy Health Speech Discussion Religious Music Cellphones Video Log Middle Eastern Music Politics Environment Communism Hot Topics Vlog Commentary Religion Gospel Football Government Talking Interview
