ICYO – Youth Information Update
December 2006/2
(E-Newsletter from network of youth
organizations in India)
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Malaria helps spread AIDS
Boosts HIV Virus In The Body For Weeks At A Time
Washington: Malaria is fueling the
spread of AIDS in Africa by boosting the HIV in people’s bodies for weeks at a
time, says a study that pins down the deadly interplay between the dual
scourges. It’s a vicious cycle as people weakened by HIV are, in turn, more
vulnerable to malaria.
University of Washington researchers who estimated the impact of the
overlapping infections concluded the interaction could be blamed for thousands
of HIV infections and almost a million bouts of malaria over two decades in
just one part of Kenya.
The research,
published in Science, highlights the need for a joint attack on both epidemics.
“It’s an important paper,” said Dr Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of
Health, the government’s leading infectious disease specialist. “We really need
to be much more serious about what we do about malaria at the same time we’re
serious about what we do about HIV.”
Malaria sickens up to
half a billion people annually and kills more than a million, mostly young
children and mostly in Africa—which also bears the biggest HIV burden.
Sub-Saharan Africa is home to 24.7 million HIV-infected people, according to UN
update.
Scientists long have
suspected the two diseases fuel each other. The new study created a
mathematical model to figure out just how much they do. HIV is most easily
spread when patients have high virus levels in their blood. A bout of malaria
causes a temporary surge — a stunning sevenfold increase — in those levels,
said lead researcher Laith Abu-Raddad, a scientist at the University of
Washington.
The surge may last up
|to eight weeks. That is longer than it takes adults in intense malaria areas,
where people get the parasitic disease once or twice a year, to recover from a
typical bout and feel up to sexual activity again, he said. AP
(Time
of India/9/12/2006)
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