Over past 50 years, HIV-AIDS virus, which has caused death of millions of people ranging from large celebrities to common people all over the world, is now going to finish itself.
Due to modern therapies that eliminate the latest discoveries and viruses in the body, there is every possibility that India will be able to become AIDS-free by 2024.
Scientists are now very close in inventing Aids vaccine too. There are 40 million patients worldwide suffering from AIDS , while in India, their number is around 2 million.
Last year about 88 thousand people in India were infected with this virus, whereas 68 thousand people succumb to the disease.
This was shared by noted medical practitioner Dr Deepak Chaturvedi to media persons.
This press conference was organised as a part of concluding day of HIV / AIDS Vaccination Day and Awareness Week, which started from May 18 in city. He said that like polio, the National AIDS Control Organization is working on National Strategic Action Plan (2017-2024) to make India free of AIDS.
Informing about latest advances in AIDS treatment Dr Chaturvedi said that this year a tablet has come to market for AIDS patients.
This tablet does not allow AIDS virus to grow. Antiretroviral therapy -- or ART -- revolutionized HIV treatment in the past few decades And newer improvements, like one-pill-a-day drugs, are making life with HIV easier and safer.Other modern therapies include Bionar Dual Vaccine, Shock and Kill, Immune Therapy, French VAC-35 and Gene Therapy etc.
Antiretroviral therapy with the success rate of approximately 95 percent is the most effective therapy. Scientists have developed different AIDS vaccines in different countries of the world, including Thailand, Norway and France, whose results are quite positive.
