see a cure for HIV in my lifetime

There is a company (Sangamo Biosciences) that is in phase one of a study. Here is the link. In normal terms if you can make a t-cell in a human body become the delta 32 mutation t cell the t cell will destroy the virus. The virus (HIV) cannot infect the white blood cells with the delta 32 mutation.

The one article that sums up everything:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122602394113507555.html

http://www.sangamo.com/about/about.html

More about the study:

http://investor.sangamo.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=363201

More about delta 32 from PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/previous_seasons/case_plague/interview.html

The New England Journal of Medicine:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/360/7/692

Patient (HIV+) before study now has no viral load (no HIV) in blood. That was two years ago…Still a long way off. BUT…..

another study: (sums up)

http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2008/06/zinc-finger-hiv.html

And a story that sums up the Germany case (reported in NEJM):

http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2009/05/28/local_news/doc4a1d63cb68531598814432.txt

more studies and news….

http://www.physorg.com/news134039435.html

http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-53146.html

I’ve spent quite a bit of time in Africa and the stats are soooooooooooooo scary.

There has gotta be a cure out there somewhere and hopefully we can raise enough $$$ to get it to the people who need it.

CHEERS TO THIS GOAL, unfortunately im not an academic and dont think ill find the cure – but ill be working out there one day and supporting those who need it…..

Bought a bunch of people tickets to a Stephen Lewis talk… It’s a tiny step for raising awareness both here and in the regions in Africa where the foundation operates.

it a illnes, its manageable and controlable and those who are infected not deserve the stigma they recieve.

i met a +ve person the other day, it strikes me that they are shunned for all the wrong reasons.
they are normal human beings and need to be treated as such

on a recent trip to zimbabwe i saw a number of poster which summed it up

” my freind with HIV is still my friend”

to coin a phrase
‘word’
(doesn’t work in white boy-british accent but you get the jist)