Re: The second line of defence

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Dear Forum,

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In the last two years there has been a bonanza of new drugs, like Integrase

Inhibitors, which patients who had become resistant to the other drugs, could

start, Fuzeon, Raltegravir, and one which alters the HIV DNA, drug named,

Maraviroc.

I would like it if instead of different styles of classifying drugs, ie. first

line of defense and second line of defense, we all follow the same

classification, classifying them by which part of the HIV retrovirus, they stop

from replicating.

Which would mean doctors and PLWHA, follow the same language, wherever they are

in the world.

The doctors, who attend meetings should introduce such common 'lingo', so that a

person in southern Africa(South Africa, Zimbabwe etc), can follow what a

PLWHA/doctor in Vietnam/Cambodia has to say.

I also would urge Indian pharmacies put in some effort to start discovering

'new' drugs, in places like the Reddy lab since soon we will outgrow the drugs

now manufactured.

It is futile to come up with a vaccine for HIV, since it destroys the very

thing we use to build immunity, the t-cells.

Thank you,

Sincerely,

Priyadarshi Datta, PLWHA.

e-mail: <pdatta@...>