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green · Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject: **HIV1 and HIV2**

I've heard that people who are HIV2 positive can live a long time before progressing to aids or may never even progress to aids. Those with HIV1 progress to aids quickly. what have you heard about the two?

Froix · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 6:03 am Post subject:

I didn't know there were two types of HIV. I just read about it and yes HIV2 does progress slower than HIV1 on the other hand some drugs used to treat HIV1 are not as effective on HIV2 and that the HIV2 virus is more difficult to monitor. Still both are as life threatening and both has no cure to date.

green · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

Yes there are two types. I learned about it in an HIV Seminar I attended once. And I don't think researchers still know why HIV1 progresses faster than HIV2

DianaR · Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008 6:58 pm Post subject:

I wasn't aware there were two strains of HIV, but in some ways that might be good news. If full blown AIDS is slower to develop with HIV2, there may be time to study the process to gain more understanding.

Anything that adds useful information might lead to a cure.

green · Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 9:34 am Post subject:

attagirl · Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 2:44 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately no matter which strain you have of the virus, there needs to be something that determines where it came from and how to really fight the disease. It is hard to believe that after 20years we are still only able to prolong life in this disease. Since this is not a long standing disease where it came from should be significant to how to treat and find a cure.

Simplyme · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

Here is a website and link that can shed a little light on what HIV-1 and HIV-2 is http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01335/en/txt/hiv1n2.html

digitaljohn · Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 3:11 am Post subject:

I've read about the different strands. Apparently, a growing number of people are being infected with HIV2 rather than HIV1, because people with the disease tend not to even know that they have it. They infect others before they find out about their disease.

mamatito33 · Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:20 pm Post subject:

attagirl
I think that it is even harder to believe that after all these years, we still don't even have a better way of detecting it in the body. We were talking about how often a person needs to be tested in another blog. I can't understand why we still have trouble detecting it any earlier than we do. That would help a lot. And yes, we should be closer to having a cure or at least making it easier to cope with, but we still can't find cures for cancers either. There are just so many things that the medical field still doesn't know.

Postman · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 5:50 am Post subject:

I never know that there are two kinds of HIV before. For all I know is that when you have this disease then your days are numbered. I wouldn’t want to have either of it.

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