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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RELOADED" data-source="post: 10281456" data-attributes="member: 315235"><img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kNfbFfn1aTc/TeZl8TgilUI/AAAAAAAAAFo/0Eo3w8y1Z_0/s400/a_006.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />(Reuters) - For  his doctors, Timothy Ray Brown was a shot in the  dark. An HIV-positive  American who was cured by a unique type of bone  marrow transplant, the  man known as "the Berlin patient" has become an  icon of what scientists  hope could be the next phase of the AIDS  pandemic: its end.  Dramatic  scientific advances  since HIV was first discovered 30 years ago this  week mean the virus is  no longer a death sentence. Thanks to tests that  detect HIV early, new  antiretroviral AIDS drugs that can control the  virus for decades, and a  range of ways to stop it being spread, 33.3  million people around the  world are learning to live with HIV.People   like Vuyiseka Dubula, an HIV-positive AIDS activist and mother in Cape   Town, South Africa, can expect relatively normal, full lives. "I'm not   thinking about death at all," she says. "I'm taking my treatment and  I'm  living my life."Nonetheless,  on  the 30th birthday of HIV, the global scientific community is setting  out  with renewed vigor to try to kill it. The drive is partly about   science, and partly about money. Treating HIV patients with lifelong   courses of sophisticated drugs is becoming unaffordable.Caring   for HIV patients in developing countries alone already costs around  $13  billion a year and that could treble over the next 20 years.In   tough economic times, the need to find a cure has become even more   urgent, says Francoise Barre Sinoussi, who won a Nobel prize for her   work in identifying Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). "We have to   think about the long term, including a strategy to find a cure," she   says. "We have to keep on searching until we find one."The   Berlin patient is proof they could. His case has injected new energy   into a field where people for years believed talk of a cure was   irresponsible.THE CURE THAT WORKED.....meetath yaman danaganna one nan meeka balanna - <a href="http://itellnews.blogspot.com/2011/06/end-to-aids.html" target="_blank">More</a><a href="http://itellnews.blogspot.com/2011/06/end-to-aids.html" target="_blank">http://itellnews.blogspot.com/2011/06/end-to-aids.html</a></blockquote>

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