Medicine in the Fight against HIV/AIDS and Cancer

Medicine against HIV / AIDS and cancer Since the beginning of the 20 th century, traditional (antagonistic) medicine was the mainstream medical method in the West. Prior to the widespread use of anti-therapeutic drugs, other more comprehensive medical traditions were accepted and practiced without prejudice. The establishment of the American Medical Association (AMA) has brought about rapid changes to other traditions and left industrial monopoly completely in the hands of the anti-therapeutic doctors.

Nature is our biggest medical cabinet: to date, it has provided human beings with a number of life-saving medications, from quinine to aspirin, from morphine to various cancers and anti-AIDS drugs. There is no doubt that other important medicines - even the treatment of miracles - have not been developed in the world ecosystem. In fact, researchers estimate that less than 1% of species known in the world are thoroughly tested and medicinal. However, ecosystems that produce the most important and promising medicines in the world, such as tropical rain forests, peat swamps, coral reefs are also at the most risk. Protecting today's ecosystems and seeds may help and even save the lives of millions of people tomorrow.

In 2000, Durban became an important moment in the fight against HIV / AIDS. Since the first historical international AIDS conference in South Africa, the annual incidence of HIV infections on our continents has been reduced by one-third. The number of people receiving treatment dramatically decreased from several thousand to 12 million people. But as Bill Gates told me at the meeting when I returned to Durban last month there was no satisfying room. Please look at the facts that are made to think. After years of development, the rate of decline in HIV infection rates in adults is stagnant. Approximately 4 million people are infected each year in Africa - about three quarters of the world (UNAIDS). Women and girls continue infecting at twice the rate of men

AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It will kill or harm the cells of the immune system and gradually destroy the body's ability to fight infections and certain types of cancer. The most common form of HIV is sexual contact with infected partners. Another important means of infecting HIV is exposure to contaminated needles, infected blood from syringes or other drug addicts. The term AIDS applies to the most advanced stage of HIV infection. Current AIDS definitions include all HIV-infected individuals with less than 200 CD4 + T cells (healthy adults usually have about 800 or more CD4 + T cell numbers). In addition, this definition includes the clinical situation (including opportunistic infections and certain cancers) of one or more HIV-infected individuals diagnosed as having an affect on advanced HIV disease.