Sentence examples for immunodeficiency from inspiring English sources

e0405e90-2bf7-45f4-b370-6811907fef7b IN THE frantic search for ways to stop the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a gel that women apply to their vaginas before having sex, in order to destroy or disable the virus, sounds one of the most desperate.

Nature Medicine carried a report by Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen and his colleagues of a new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) detected in a Cameroonian woman.

In the past two decades life expectancy for black South Africans, who have been hardest hit by the epidemic, has plunged from over 60 to just 47.But, after a decade of denialism under the former president, Thabo Mbeki, who was loth to admit a connection between the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the disease, President Jacob Zuma's government is fighting back.

Thabo Mbeki, of South Africa, still seems reluctant to accept the otherwise universal hypothesis that AIDS is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus with all the dire medical consequences that flow from his refusal to take the right actions.Still, Mr Mbeki will not remain in office for ever, and it is his comparatively rich country that is leading the charge.

Chimpanzees (and also many species of monkey) sometimes carry viruses called SIVs (simian immunodeficiency viruses).

Most of the new money will be spent in 15 countries, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa, which is by far the worst affected part of the world.The plan's aims over that period are to treat 2m people infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the disease, to prevent 7m new infections, and to care for 10m HIV-infected individuals and AIDS orphans.

UNAIDS, the umbrella group that co-ordinates the anti-AIDS effort of various UN agencies, reckons that 5m people a year are being infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS.

Yet as far as can be seen, these so-called simian immunodeficiency viruses (SIVs) have little impact on their hosts' health.Frank Kirchhoff and Michael Schindler, of the University of Ulm, in Germany, and their colleagues have been looking into why that is.

On July 9th a famous one expired: the first antibody-based test for the human immunodeficiency virus.

But Joep Lange should still be seen as a martyr, for he would not have died when he did had he not been pursuing a war of his own a war far deadlier than the skirmishing in eastern Ukraine which brought down the aircraft in which he was flying.His enemy, which has taken more lives than any armed conflict since the second world war, was the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.

Now, after a priority dispute with Robert Gallo, an American researcher who claimed to have discovered it independently, and who called it HTLV-3, it has become more familiar under its compromise moniker, the human immunodeficiency virus, HIV.In the decades since Dr Montagnier's paper, HIV has run riot.