AIDS death toll of more than World War II
 
Ningbo, China http://www.cnnb.com.cn net at 10:10 on February 1
 
 
25 years later, AIDS has been deadly in the world's 25 million, the death toll is more than the First World War, the current HIV-infected persons are still 33 million people. However, the human remains in an active immune system to combat the disease, did not lose the hope of defeating it.

France and the United States scientists first discovered

AIDS was first in the early'80s of the last century has been identified in the United States, the early patients are young male homosexuals, AIDS, therefore the British tabloids were once known as the "gay plague."

Pasteur Institute in France, specializes in the relationship between retroviruses and cancer of the French virologist克蒙塔尼埃Road and its research team in 1983, the first time from Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer of young gay people with AIDS blood and lymph node samples, isolated from a new retrovirus, they will be named as the "immune deficiency-associated virus." May 20, 1983,蒙塔尼埃research team led in the United States the authority of the scientific magazine "Science" published a paper describing this suspicious virus.

蒙塔尼埃collaborators at the time, the U.S. National Cancer Institute of Biological Medical Robert Le also from a number of cell lines to the new virus was isolated and named the "IIIB/H9 type of human T-cell leukemia virus . " Le group the first time in April 1984 in "Science" journal papers, proof of this new virus and the relationship between AIDS pathogen. In 1986, the name of the virus have been unified as "human immunodeficiency virus" (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), namely HIV virus.

HIV was discovered, people thought that just like antibiotics and smallpox vaccine, like the invention of mankind can be quickly found to deal with an effective drug for the virus, thereby preventing its spread.

However, a quarter of a century has passed, mankind still do not see the fight against AIDS disease completely hope.

In 1984, the world's AIDS patients reported less than 3,000 people. Today, AIDS has led to 25 million people were killed and another 33 million people were infected because of AIDS, more than 11 million children have lost at least one parent.

Africa is affected by AIDS, the most serious threat to the region. The world's population accounts for nearly 10% of Africa, AIDS patients and the number of virus carriers accounted for more than 70% of the world.

The funds needed to reach four times the current

The last century, the mid-90s, "cocktail therapy" the emergence of the AIDS death from a disease into a disease can be controlled.

However, even today, scientists have not developed AIDS vaccine, and the medical profession in the development of microbicides efforts were thwarted the same as the HIV virus can be called human beings so far encountered by the most cunning of pathogens, which often mutate.

The 21st century, human beings to deal with the main means of HIV virus or a 19th century invention of the rubber condom.

Researchers pointed out that in the field of AIDS research, in the past 25 years, scientists take a lot of detours.

United Nations Millennium Development Goals and the G8 are committed to the achievement of political commitment to combat AIDS. Every year, the "Global Foundation," tens of billions of dollars will be devoted to AIDS prevention and anti-AIDS drugs in research and development.

However, experts estimate that to achieve by 2010 so that the global AIDS care and treatment acceptable goal, the funds required will be four times the current, it will reach 42 billion U.S. dollars annually.

International AIDS Society's founder, Sweden microbiologist Ling Raska Adams is not optimistic about the future: "HIV virus and AIDS in humans may never disappear."