Finally, an AIDS vaccine?

**uls** · September 26th, 2009 01:48 AM

good explanation dude

once a retrovirus enters our body and integrates itself into our DNA, it's there forever

we can find traces of ancient human retroviral infections in our genes

there's an ancient retrovirus called HERV

it's in our DNA

**oliver1013** · September 26th, 2009 02:34 AM

spankwire nalang safe pa

**praetor91313** · September 26th, 2009 07:54 AM

I agree with everyone's viewpoint here that the best thing to do here is to abstinence pa rin talaga.

Sorry for the grammatical error. I was going to write "is to abstain" then changed it to "abstinence" kaya lang di ko napansin na di ko natanggal yung "to".

I've heard of a case where a donor was found to have a positive result during his ELISA screening. The donor complained that he just donated blood six months ago and it was negative then. Concerned, the head of the unit traced the patient's first donated blood.

When they tested the person whom they gave the blood to, positive din daw sya for HIV.

They think what happened was, the donor got the HIV/AIDS virus less then three months before he was screened during his blood donation. Ang screening for HIV kasi ang hinahanap ay yung antibodies natin sa HIV, e tumataas ang level nito within 2 to 12 weeks pa kaya pag mas maaga mo tinest, pwede sya maging false negative . That's the reason why we don't usually request it immediately after contact at pinapaulit namin ito at 6 months pag negative sa first 3 months.

Anyways, this case was just an anecdotal report; a colleague of mine told me he heard this during a convention he attended.

**cktlcmd** · September 26th, 2009 08:20 AM

Originally Posted by oliver1013

spankwire nalang safe pa

Hahaha...lol

Originally Posted by niky

Errh... ULS was pointing out that the difference is small, but the researchers consider it statistically significant. He doesn't say whether or not he considers it statistically significant.

The whole point of a vaccine is to prevent infection. If the infection rate of a population goes down by just 0.3 percent, that's too small a difference to consider the vaccine a success. Not just yet.

Opppsss! Then it is better if the researchers are the one claiming that it is statistically significant.

To us researchers... the significance of the result matters the most... all those previous numbers are disregarded and irrelevant once Statistical Significance is stablished. I could understand the importance of those numbers if they want to double/quadruple check if the Statistical Significance is correct though.

That is the point of computing whether the numbers gathered are statistically significant or not.... you have to remember the 0.3 percent you mentioned is a representative of the entire population... it might be a small percentage but it probably equates to a humongous number.

Originally Posted by praetor91313

Uhm... sorry po, medyo OT na kami, pero I've re-read my post and I can't find the part where I said it was a DNA virus... I just said it gets incorporated into our DNA. I don't think I classsified it as to what type of virus it is.

Anyways, just to set things straight, as sir cktlcmd stated, the HIV/AIDS virus is an RNA virus-- for simplicity's sake, think of this as half of a DNA (which are the building blocks of life).

Sorry...about that. I might have read too fast and misunderstood. Excellent explanation though.

**Lucius** · September 26th, 2009 08:24 AM

Is it a problem to wear a rubber? And to not have *** with "workers" or anyone you don't really know well?

Just keep your mating activities within your circle para safe and don't pay for ***.

**cktlcmd** · September 26th, 2009 08:36 AM

Originally Posted by Lucius

Is it a problem to wear a rubber? And to not have *** with "workers" or anyone you don't really know well?

Just keep your mating activities within your circle para safe and don't pay for ***.

Always wear a rubber ... in or out of the circle ... you're safer this way.

**ghosthunter** · September 26th, 2009 09:39 AM

Originally Posted by Lucius

Is it a problem to wear a rubber? And to not have *** with "workers" or anyone you don't really know well?

Just keep your mating activities within your circle para safe and don't pay for ***.

Sometimes we just don't have the kind of circle friends you might be referring to or the timing is off (you're horny and she's not).

**ice15** · February 21st, 2023 05:29 PM

not a vaccine... but this thread is the only AIDS topic under the Health Forum

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