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German Scientists have discovered a HIV inhibitor.

category international | sci-tech | news report author Tuesday January 04, 2005 13:30author by iosaf mac d. - "all together now" Report this post to the editors

"good news!"

The Team at the University of Hamburg and the Heinrich-Pette-Institute for Virology and Immunological reseach working with Erlangen-Nürnberg unversity and Axxima Pharmaceuticals have built on the discovery of Hypusine an unusual and unique posttranslational modification, conserved in evolution from halobacteria to man. to create an enzyme inhibitor which stops the replication of HIV in an infected human body.
we need your middle class cash and your poor people prayers.
we need your middle class cash and your poor people prayers.

In simple language -

the new product blocks enzyme production in human cells a substance called - deoxyhypusine synthase.

the virus HIV needs to enter human cells to work.
(it's work being AIDS)
By stopping it entering succesfully a human cell it's work is stopped.

This is not a "vaccine"
nor is it a "cure".
It just means the damage can be stopped from getting worse at what is called HIV stage 1.

Increasingly "stopping it getting worse" is the task of humanity, since humanity has in it's darkness made so many things and itself bad and has very little hope of making them better for many of it's lifetimes. But if humanity wants to enjoy the garden it calls earth there are a lot of thing to stop getting worse.
The value of your house or mortgage is not important.
The value of your college degree is not that important either.
The value of your planet is.
the value you place on the lives and quality of lives of your billions of brothers and sisters regardless of species is .

The full report will be published by team leader Dr. Ilona Hauber in the American publication - Journal of Clinical Investigation (Hauber et. al., Vol.115, Nr. 1, Jan 2005)

The background info is available from the Universities and Pharmaceutical partner and on Sage.
on hypusine-
http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/archive/00002992/
the press release-
@ link.

Related Link: http://www.hpi-hamburg.de/news/press2005.de.php
author by knowing that some day the dead will be listed - and judgedpublication date Tue Jan 04, 2005 13:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

from the BBC's own correspondent report read the few hundred lines that ended-
"They have already had the sex.
All they need now is the love."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4135473.stm

Meanwhile 2005 sees an exhibition opened in Amsterdam last December called "all about Evil"
it runs till September 11.
http://www.amsterdam.nl/asp/get.asp?ItmIdt=00005659&SitIdt=00000005&VarIdt=00000002

Almost everyone in Ireland can afford to save enough cash to buy a ryanair flight or a euroline bus to the Dam, where many of your contemporaries found the worst exploitation in a pale imitation of Hollywood's empire you never even thought to imagine.

author by -publication date Fri Jan 07, 2005 16:15author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Mandela Grief Challenges South Africa AIDS Stigma
http://www.keralanext.com/news/?id=90298

Former South African President's Last Son Dies Of Aids
http://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle8561.html

Key facts about South Africa's AIDS epidemic
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06305402.htm

Mandela grief is price of his freedom fight
South Africa's hero mourns son who shunned him in later life. David Blair in Johannesburg reports for The Telegraph:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Mandela, Anti-AIDS Crusader, Says Son Died of Disease
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/07/international/africa/07mandela.html

**********
Nelson is remembered and honoured by us for bringing the Afrikaan apartheid state and all the evil it had produced to it's demise.
For no small reason before we placed a mohikan turf on Churchill's head we blindfolded "the afrikaan" who stands in his uniform as a memory and warning to all in Westminster square.

author by epsilon rooseveltpublication date Sat Jan 08, 2005 10:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Scientists working at the National Council of Scientific and Technical Investigation (Conicet) in Argentina have announced the discovery of a gene which is closely associated with the risk of HIV infection.

The gene is called - CCL3L1.

(if you believe in genes read on) Those with less of the gene CCL3L1 in their genome are at a higher risk of infection with HIV and thus contracting AIDS. (which thanks to the german work I told you about above can now be stopped at stage 1).

The work has included many scientists and technologists working together (none from the Gates foundation to which Bill and Melinda gave 0.002% of their wealth in a dramatic display of moral relativism and hypocrisy). The scientists who will be credited with "the discovery" are
Dr. Sunil Ahuja (University of Texas, and San Antonio USA). and in Argentina, Dr. Andrea Mangano Dr. Luisa Sen, of the Laboratory of Celular Biology and Retroviruses of the Juan P. Garrahan National Hospital of Paediatrics.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/science/newsid_4154000/4154889.stm

Typically (according to geneticists) those with less of this gene belong to the Black African and Hispanic ethnic groups. Careful readers will remember I told them about the presence of geneticists in Argentina and neighbouring states during the immediate aftermath of the European War.

It is time now, please take "the afrikaan" down from his plinth.

Related Link: http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/se_sociedad/noticia.jsp?CAT=105&TEXTO=3349794
author by - - "all together now"publication date Wed Jan 12, 2005 21:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The comparison between monkey species in the Americas and southern part of Africa has led the British Medical Research Council in their work on HIV and SIV (the simian equivalent) to further postulate the final suprise discovery of the "vaccine".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1387440,00.html

author by Cal Crillypublication date Thu Jan 13, 2005 06:25author email escapevirus at hotmail dot comauthor address author phone Report this post to the editors

Links to the latest dirt on AIDs mostly from mainstream news services if no one has noticed what is going down.
Some of the latest HIV holes to hit mainstream media…
There is a huge story in this and it’s unraveling somewhat.
Thought it may be of interest, a couple of links?

What killed Mandela’s son?
http://www.tig.org.za/pdf-files/what_killed_makgatho_mandela.pdf

Officials warned of concerns about AIDS drug 13 Dec.2004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6707600/
AIDS Orphans story on BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_world/4038375.stm
AIDS Orphans story on Fox
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,140829,00.html
South Africans rap U.S. health officials for actions on drug
http://newsbot.msnbc.msn.com/n/?id=14157296
http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=176895
An Eyewitness Account of Gross Irregularities and Medical Incompetence in the Early Clinical Trials of AZT
http://www.rethinking.org/aids/AZT.html
Neville Hodgkinson article on AIDS tests in Business Magazine
http://www.kimbannon.com/press/the_business.html

Interview with AZT inventor by Anthony Brink
http://www.tig.org.za/pdf-files/inventing_azt.pdf
Kim Marie Bannon lawsuit against HIV test.
http://www.altheal.org/rights/kmbannon.htm
Interview with Anthony Brink Sept 2004 mp3 sound
http://southafrica.indymedia.org/news/2004/10/6787.php
Dissident List
This is a list of almost 1100 people who have questioned some or all
of the connection between HIV and AIDS, including a large number of doctors and scientists. For each person their credentials are listed.
http://aras.ab.ca/thelist.htm

author by cross postedpublication date Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:28author address author phone Report this post to the editors

we read the European scientific "discoveries" press releases in German and Spanish and English coz the links were left here by one of the team last week.

(are we ahead of you?)

author by -publication date Thu Jan 13, 2005 12:57author address author phone Report this post to the editors

is mooted as the year for vaccine type release therapies to Africa and Asia where the need is greatest. It will mean changing patent laws as part of global sensible shoes policy so that the nations of Africa and Asia may cheaply produce the drugs and therapies and do the do.
it will mean finally your cash and dosh helping the black babies.

author by viiipublication date Wed Jan 19, 2005 22:20author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The Spanish Bishops (Roman Catholic, naturally Spain is "the catholic kingdom") have in the last 24 hours moved to accept that condoms play a part in the prevention of HIV infection.
http://www.panactual.com/noticias_detalles.asp?noti_code=24214

It's quite a move for any bishop on any chess board, and accordingly in the last three hours there have been very clear reminders that "celibacy, abstinance and fidelity to one partner who is faithful to you"remains the stated position of the Holy See on the HIV/ AIDS issue which Pope John Paul II attributed to moral deficiency in his pre-christmas statement.

With messages being sent to traditional media organs of the RC world that the line has not changed and that the bishops of Spain got it slightly offline yesterday.

http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?idc=162876

The line being based on Humanae Vitae a papal encyclical by Pope John XXIII which said "it will never be lawful to intefere in the creative principle".

But for the moment the media organs of the wider church of laeity who are found in the Americas and Africa and Asia (the home of the theology of liberation) whose inhabitants you will have noted in the updates above are thought to be more genetically prone to the "HIV/AIDS complex" are not bothering to clarify the offline error, because you're in very deep water when you go into these mysteries.

http://www.larazon.com.ar/diario_lr/hoy/2-906935.htm

And @ times it's better not to be a saducee or a pharisee and just give that samaritan woman fetching some water from the well a bit of support till everyone gets the inhibitor / vaccine thing sortéd and not go lecturing her on John XXIII till you've got at least a few "decent legs" to stand on.

author by + - casting the first stonepublication date Thu Jan 20, 2005 16:17author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Don Manuel Fraga, President of the Xunta of Galicia, Spain, the oldest elected leader of a government oldest and perhaps wisest politician in Europe followed only Dr Paisley in Ulster, and one of the authors of the current spanish constitution has confirmed today that as a Catholic, roman and apostolic, he obeys the teachings of the church and looks forward to dying with never having worn a condom. Today the RC church in spain have dis-authorised their spokesperson for being off line in the last 24 hours.
Don Fraga is remembered by many of his generation for swimming in water where the USAF accidently crashed nuclear weapons to allay their terror, of those younger than him for setting the guardia civil on them at the end of the dictatorship with the words "the street is mine" ("to avert a civil war"), and of our generation for the Prestige disaster which proved the ability of the Galician people to overcome the most overwhelming odds. he will be fondly remember by me as the man who said - "I'll ally with anyone to fight the devil". = Ask your granny about condoms and AIDS and black babies. Don't ask her about global terror.

Related Link: http://www.diariodeleon.com/inicio/noticia.jsp?CAT=113&TEXTO=100000012968
author by iosaf = o as if = sofia - "all together now!"publication date Wed Jan 26, 2005 21:12author address greater lichtensteinauthor phone Report this post to the editors

has addressed the assembled mediocres of meritocracy of the WEF under the co-chairmanship of Mr Gates in Davos Switzerland and called for the introduction of an "experimental" international tax to help fund the war against Aids. The French President suggested it could be raised by via a levy on financial transactions, airline tickets, and fuel.

In a speech via video link to political and business leaders in the Swiss resort of Davos, President Chirac said at least $10 billion dollars (£5.3bn) a year was needed to stem the spread of HIV/Aids.

He was invited to attend, but stormy weather meant that the French airforce just couldn't get him there safely.

Next up is Mr Blair the PM of HMG UK who's good mate Mr Brown has topped up this mornings aid for Vaccines with a further comittment of £stg1.4 billion to combat poverty which counted together with the other donation to vaccines
c/f the artticle I posted at 9.11 Irish time this morning -http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=68369
HMG UK has now doubled the donations by Davos WEF co-chairman Bill Gates this week. HMG UK generally for some reason gets worse press.

Chirac's proposals are roughly this-

That countries with bank secrecy laws make a special contribution to Third World aid and that developed nations provide "coordinated tax incentives" to stimulate private donations.

to debate his plan at a the G-8 summit in July in Scotland that will be hosted by British Prime Minister for HMG Tony Blair.

He did not spell out an amount of money that would be generated, but gave several examples.

A tax on international financial transactions - which the United States strongly opposes - would raise $10 billion a year, while a $1 tax on every plane ticket sold worldwide would raise "at least $3 billion" a year without causing the aviation industry much harm, Chirac said.

so there.
allons.
its not Basta yet is it?
its not Dinero Gratis either.
In fact its not the gospel.

Related Link: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,16849-1457757,00.html
author by D. Truthhurtspublication date Thu Feb 10, 2005 00:44author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Say what you will but high morals are a great prevention for many of the world's ailments.

Chances are with this ‘new fandangle medicinal compound’ that aids sufferers will not just have to deal with just that infliction but now they might have to worry about pharmaceutical repercussions as well. A wonderful discovery no doubt, maybe the ‘oul Pope John Paul wasn’t too far off the mark after all.

Read on --- Lover Boy!!!

Quote: Alive Newspaper, February 2005

THE huge success of Uganda's campaign against AIDS has not silenced international critics who object to its emphasis on sexual abstinence before marriage and faithfulness in marriage.

But now the country's First Lady has told the critics and their agencies that their so-called safe-sex programmes and their promotion of condoms were leading young people to "death".

The Ugandan campaign, which stresses abstinence and faithfulness, has resulted in a 75% drop in HIV infection in some areas.

Janet Museveni issued her warning against foreign criticisms of the campaign at an annual meeting of the country's mayors and municipal leaders.

What is "not practical" about young people avoiding pre-marital sex or spouses remaining faithful? she asked.

"Why should young people in colleges and universities run around with sex? What is the hurry? Why should we allow ourselves to listen to voices that lead us to death, and argue with those that save lives?" she said.

The First Lady also called on the local politicians to eradicate pornography from their cities.

author by - i dunno -publication date Wed Apr 06, 2005 11:36author address author phone Report this post to the editors

- or not?

- are you an issue? or not.
- are you an issue? or not.

author by -publication date Wed Jun 29, 2005 19:08author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"A target to get three million people in the poorest parts of the world onto aids drugs by the end of the year will almost certainly not be met. World Health Organisation figures reveal just one million people are receiving life saving treatment."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4635197.stm

$$$$$$$ If the poor countries made the drugs they could treat their sick. BASTA = DINERO GRATIS

Rich countries' governments and the World Health Organisation (WHO) must push for quick moves to ensure that the latest AIDS drugs can reach poorer nations at low cost, the MSF medical charity said on Wednesday.

MSF, or Medecins Sans Frontieres, said action -- such as compelling big pharmaceutical companies to licence manufacture of key medicines by firms in developing countries -- was vital to head off a looming supply and cost crisis.

"Access to newer drugs is increasingly critical as the growing number of people with HIV/AIDS currently on treatment will inevitably develop resistance to first-line treatments," MSF said in a statement issued in Geneva.

And it suggested that leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrial nations meeting in Scotland next week should back the idea of compulsory licencing -- allowing governments in poorer countries to break patents held by global firms.

The statement was issued as the WHO reported that although a million people in developing countries are receiving life-saving AIDS medication it was unlikely to reach its goal of getting three times that number on treatment by the end of 2005.

MSF, which currently provides anti-retroviral (ARV) treatments to some 35,000 AIDS sufferers in about 30 countries, said it was having to pay "exorbitant prices" to companies who were the patent holders of newer drugs.

In the latest edition of its AIDS drug-pricing guide, MSF said the prices of second-line drugs were six to 12 times higher than those of older treatments in the world's 49 least developed countries (LDCs) and in all of sub-Saharan Africa.

Many of the one million people under treatment and of the remaining 5.5 million still without ARVs in developing countries today, even if they eventually get them, will need access to the newer treatments within the next few years, MSF said.

"It is urgent to address how high the final drug bill will be in a few years time, and who will foot it," MSF AIDS specialist Felipe Garcia de la Vega said.

Although the G8 nations are discussing ensuring universal access to ARVs, "this will remain an impossible goal if prices continue to soar," he declared.

"It is vital that governments and international organisations like the WHO take and encourage immediate steps -- such as compulsory licencing -- that allow countries to make or import more affordable generics (copies)."

Brazil, which has a major AIDS treatment programme and a growing domestic pharmaceutical industry, this week issued its first-ever compulsory licence order on the U.S. firm Abbott Laboratories Inc for production of an ARV drug.

Brazil's health minister Humberto Costa said the drug, which like all other AIDS treatments will be delivered to sufferers in the country free of charge, could be produced at 68 cents a pill against the $1.17 it is currently paying Abbott.

MSF said the current pricing system for ARVs, under which the big global firms give voluntary discounts to the poorest developing countries, "is not sufficient to guarantee affordability of medicines now or in the future."

The companies were not producing enough drugs suitable for children, some medications made only by one firm were still very expensive despite the discounts, and many drugs were not distributed in all countries needing them.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

The United States is keenly following Brazil's plan to break a patent held by a U.S. drug company to cut treatment costs for the country's tens of thousands of AIDS sufferers, a U.S. official said on Tuesday.

"We are monitoring this latest development closely through our embassy in Brasilia and here in Washington," a U.S. trade official said, without commenting on whether the United States would challenge Brazil on the issue.

"We will maintain our communication with the government of Brazil and our industry. The U.S. has been a leader, not only in developing innovative drugs, but also in making sure countries have the tools within the rules to combat health crises," the official added, speaking on condition he not be identified.

Brazil has announced it will break a patent on Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s anti-retroviral drug Kaletra to provide a cheaper generic version for its treatment program.

It would be the first time any country has broken a patent in order to produce an anti-AIDS drugs. Brazil says its state-owned lab could make the drug for 68 cents a pill, less than the $1.17 each the government pays Abbott.

At a news conference in Geneva on Monday, Brazilian Health Minister Humberto Costa argued the move was "totally legal" under World Trade Organization rules.

Brazil was taking the step after Abbott had refused to grant a voluntary license to manufacture Kaletra, Costa said.

The order, the first issued by Brazil in a long-running tussle over pricing between developing countries and multinational companies producing drugs used in AIDS treatment, will go into effect within 10 days, Costa said.

Kaletra is one of three ARVs made by Abbott and two other U.S. firms on which Brazil will this year spend $250 million, 63 percent of its AIDS budget, to treat some 180,000 sufferers.

WTO rules give member countries discretion to protect public health by issuing compulsory licenses allowing the manufacturing of patented drugs.

Mark Grayson, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, questioned whether Brazil faced an emergency that justified breaking the patent.

Statistics show its spending on AIDS drugs has declined over the past five years, he said.

"As a policy matter, threatening to break patents doesn't solve the AIDS problem," Grayson said.

Related Link: http://www.msf.org/
author by .publication date Sun Jul 03, 2005 16:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

"Under Brazilian law, the government can break drug patents if it is deemed to be in the public interest."

"As a policy matter, threatening to break patents doesn't solve the AIDS problem,"

"We are affirming today that we are of one moral universe and that to tackle the greatest evil of our times, ours must now become the greatest moral crusade of our times,[.....]"Her eyes betrayed an unreadable sadness," [a 12 year old tanzanian AIDS orphan herself with HIV and TV] "Her desolation is burned into my soul."

the first is Brazil, they legally have the right to break international intellectual copyright law, to save lives. They morally have the duty.

The second is the man who is employed to speak on behalf of the US drugs industry, they with the japanese have the most patents on drugs in the world, which they apply to the world.

the third is Gordon Brown seaking the Church of scotland after the make poverty history march.


The drugs are there to treat AIDS.
But the even at "reduced cost" (A charity iniative of the mostly US industry) they are too expensive.
States such as Brazil under Lulu have guaranteed the rights of their citizens to treatment, and like many states in Africa are intellectually capable of making the drugs in states labs and distributing them. Which is more important?
a human life? or intellectual copyright?
If someone said, you can download that song for free of the internet and breach copyright to save a life would you?

The idea of intellectual copyright is seriously flawed, and causes more deaths than are calculable, yet the same voices of the new moral crusade, are those who defend, these recent laws and wish see them enforced in global trade. Perhaps in an ideal world, ideas would be shared.
And those who needed the drugs would make them. Maybe the richer states could pay the costs?
Oh no, then we'd have aids victims in the first world travelling to the third world as benefit scroungers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/special/aids/

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