Monday, August 28, 2006
Caravan of hope,my dream has a chance of birth!
I am an HIV+ hep-c+,and have done many talks on hiv aids awareness and harm reduction along with safe sex condom use ,promote testing ,i usualy go do these at schools,group homes ect. i have recieved a girf and was thinking of purchasing a motorhome so that we could travel across canada doing talks on hiv=aids safe sex ect at schools ect. I am on odsp benefits and dont really want to lose my coverage .,this was just a silly dream of mine and now that i have a few bucks well maybe it can happen eh,i appreciate any and all info you can send me,and may GOD bless and keep you safe with peace,happiness and love,james joey gough,sudbury ont canada,if anyone can help out with a good deal on a motorhome email me at jamesgsud@hotmail.com or 715 burton ave #2 sudbury ont can p3c 4L3 ps. donations accepted and will go directly to help on this venture,thanks and GOD bless you all,james joey gough
International HIV -AIDS Conference worth while or not?
How can you judge if it was a good Conf. or not? by who's standards are we judging?I myself think it was a huge success and brought alot of info to alot of peoples who are even still now digesting the mountains of material that was given to us,the average HIV+ dude or dudette"i think it was enough to keep me going till xmas "james gough was in attendence at said conf and mentions that the massges were great,almost felt normal again!My second day back of course i where my 20.00 t-shirt(thought they were 2.)lol anyways it was freaky,and even more freaky is that now i come home and find a 35,000 check on my floor at the door(neighbor was putin mail under door while away on holidays eh)i find out that i will be cut off of my income and a whjole alot of other bullshit that i never knew i had to do before,MONEY sucks,it brings about alot more responability then i knew or even thought of ,its gettin me so pissed that i want to rip that check into little bitty pieces,and just forget it ever happened at all,anmyways i want to make a film about hiv and the implications of a single wrong desision.I am taking my time with this as i am not sure how to go about this,i even wrote bill gates and thanked him and his wife for all they have done on behalf of hiv + peoples everywheres and well for myself as i am included in that type of humans infected and living with this virus,hiv,ken@poweredbyprofessionals.com
Saturday, August 26, 2006
hiv hides in gut as well as blood
UCLA researchers have found the human gut to be a major reservoir harboring the HIV virus -- holding almost twice as much as a person's blood. In addition, the virus stored in the gut does not decay or reduce over time, as is also the case with blood-related reservoirs.
It is well-known that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and lymph nodes are principal reservoirs harboring the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The role of gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) in this setting, however, had not been properly evaluated until now.
Researchers from the Center for Prevention Research and the UCLA AIDS Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in collaboration with the AIDS Research Alliance in West Hollywood, Calif., collaborated on this research.
The findings further confirm that HIV remains persistent and elusive, and that eradicating the virus using current anti-retroviral therapy alone is not enough. Despite using fully suppressive therapy, patients in the study still had evidence of persistent, steady levels of HIV in gut tissue as well as in the blood.
Authors of the study include W. John Boscardin, Julie Elliott, Philip Taing, Marie M.P. Fuerst, Ian McGowan and Peter A. Anton of UCLA; Michael A. Poles of New York University; and Stephen Brown of the AIDS Research Alliance. The study appears in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, September issue.
Funding for the research was provided for by grants from the National Institutes of Health's Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR): Cores of Mucosal Immunology, Virology and Biostatistics; AIDS Research Alliance; Macy's Foundation; Pendleton Foundation, and Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation.
It is well-known that peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and lymph nodes are principal reservoirs harboring the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The role of gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) in this setting, however, had not been properly evaluated until now.
Researchers from the Center for Prevention Research and the UCLA AIDS Institute at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, in collaboration with the AIDS Research Alliance in West Hollywood, Calif., collaborated on this research.
The findings further confirm that HIV remains persistent and elusive, and that eradicating the virus using current anti-retroviral therapy alone is not enough. Despite using fully suppressive therapy, patients in the study still had evidence of persistent, steady levels of HIV in gut tissue as well as in the blood.
Authors of the study include W. John Boscardin, Julie Elliott, Philip Taing, Marie M.P. Fuerst, Ian McGowan and Peter A. Anton of UCLA; Michael A. Poles of New York University; and Stephen Brown of the AIDS Research Alliance. The study appears in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, September issue.
Funding for the research was provided for by grants from the National Institutes of Health's Centers for AIDS Research (CFAR): Cores of Mucosal Immunology, Virology and Biostatistics; AIDS Research Alliance; Macy's Foundation; Pendleton Foundation, and Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation.
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