When the Wall Comes Tumbling Down: HIV/AIDS
When the Wall Comes Tumbling Down: HIV/AIDS
AIDS presents one of the greatest medical and scientific challenges of the past sixty years. This chapter examines AIDS as a medical problem, as a problem in virology, and from an immunological point of view. Current approaches to dealing with AIDS have dramatically improved survival rates, but long-term survival has not been achieved. Treatments are hugely expensive, have unacceptable side effects, and have had minimal impact outside of first-world countries. The chapter thus also looks at future directions for AIDS research, including gene-therapy approaches, and DNA-based vaccines.
Keywords: HIV virology, HIV immunology, gene therapy, DNA vaccines
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