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Last Updated: Thursday, 15 February 2007, 00:00 GMT

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Scientists expose HIV weak spot

Antibody (green) locks onto a key site on the virus
Scientists have shown what happens when an infection-fighting antibody attacks a gap in HIV's formidable defences.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases-led team say the work could aid HIV vaccine development.

They have published an atomic-level image in Nature showing the antibody, b12, attacking part of a protein on surface of the virus.

HIV avoids attack by constantly mutating, but this protein segment is a weak spot because it remains stable.

This is certainly one of the best leads to come along in recent years

Dr Gary Nabel,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Dr Elias Zerhouni, director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), said: "Creating an HIV vaccine is one of the great scientific challenges of our time.

[Maybe, just maybe, we may be getting close to saving millions...]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6357287.stm

[twg]

[mindmetoo]

[Samantha]

[Octavius Hite]

twg wrote:

[Samantha]

[Octavius Hite]

Good PSA, not stated enough especially for all those guys out there not using a rubber!

I trust my boyfriend and my lover (yes, I keep 2, just in case, lol) but monogomy is not my nor my 2 guys strongsuits.

There is a great doc called Gay Sex in the 70's

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455953/

and I would have love for us to be able to go back there, but that cannot happen until HIV is cured.

Until then, the rubber vigil continues!

[Samantha]

[Octavius Hite]

I will admit that I have moments of worry and dread. In fact the routine (i.e. every 4-5 month) HIV and STD tests are truly terrifying, but life is like that. I live next to the world's most heavily defended border, I drive a motorcycle, I like bungee jump, snowboarding, I speed when driving, etc etc etc. I figure that if I am going to get it, it will be from one of those things.

I am also lucky to have grown up in a house with progressive parents who taught me and gave me condoms from my 13th B-day until I moved out at 18. We need to teach people that condoms are always mandatory until your 4 good points are met in a relationship.

[Samantha]

[Sincinnatislink]

Yeah, I'd love to have herpes.

[otis]

[mindmetoo]

My favorite story, after most of JongnoGuru's stories, is about a guy who was dating this Korean woman. Things progressed. He figured the next date they'd be doing it. So he wanted to be prepared and he got some condoms. They're at his place, clothes are coming off, she mentions that they will have to be careful not to make her pregnant. He says no problem, I got some condoms. Suddenly her mood changes. She seems offended and hurt. Like he's just called her a *beep*. Her bra goes back on and she leaves. He's like WTF?

Best I can figure, the message he was trying to send, that any western woman would have picked up on, was "I respect you, I will deny myself some pleasure to make sure you're safe."

The message a Korean woman might take "Was I such a shameless hussy that it was obvious to you that I was going to give it up? So you got condoms because you knew I'd be spreading my legs tonight? Is that what you think of me!"

Yeah, so clearly she was thinking withdrawal.

[Octavius Hite]

I worked at a hogwon in Seoul one year (a terrible, terrible year) and one night we are all having drinks after work. Of course some of the guys are dating some of the korean co-teachers and we are all talking smack when one of the Korean girls (25 years old mind you) pipes up about how she "knows" that she can only get pregnant 2-3 days a month, all the other days she is safe. The look on her boyfriends face was the funniest thing I have ever seen. After that he got her on the pill asap.

[seoulunitarian]