It seems like forever ago that celebrities like Queen singer Freddie Mercury, actor Rock Hudson, and tennis champion Arthur Ashe (and Liberace, René Klijn, Rudolf Nureyev, Isaac Asimov, and Keith Haring...) died of AIDS. And thanks to virus inhibitors, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is now almost never a death sentence. So, is AIDS over? And HIV? No - a few hundred people contract the virus yearly in the Netherlands alone. Globally, two million new patients are added every year. And outside the Netherlands, HIV is almost always a death sentence: due to a lack of good care and discrimination against patients, AIDS claims approximately a million lives every year. Scientists, therefore, continue to search for a drug that could really cure HIV. That is not there yet, internist-infectiologist and HIV/AIDS expert Casper Rokx (Erasmus MC) tells you in this video.
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0:00 What about AIDS in the Netherlands?
0:38 What can you do to avoid contracting HIV?
1:25 How is HIV/AIDS doing worldwide?
1:53 Why hasn't HIV/AIDS been eradicated from the world yet?
2:17 How do HIV inhibitors work?
3:08 How much does HIV medication cost?
3:47 How can we cure HIV?
4 июн 2024
