After a beautiful sleet storm here in Atl., we've been out of electricy 3 times. Sat for 3 hours, all day sunday (they turned on by 9pm), and again this morning. i think we're now getting used to it. everyone has offered a place to stay if we get too cold. we just keep forgetting how much we use electricity. we'll check the weather on the radio..... we need to iron..... we'll make coffee...., well, we'll use french press then we only need the stove, oh yeah, we grind our beans..... it's been fun.
yesterday in the Ney York Times, (A SUNDAY newspaper, that's impressive) There is an article intitiled:
U.S. Is Close to Eliminating AIDS in Infants, Officials Say
By MARC SANTORA
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Ari and Tim,
I was wanted to call this morning to see if you had electricity yet. You sound like us during the hurricanes! Anyway hang in there!
Nice to see AIDS eliminated in US infants, maybe we can eliminate it in other infants. Love, mom
Posted by: susan poston at January 31, 2005 4:11 PMthat's what i'm working on
Posted by: ari at January 31, 2005 6:24 PMHow are you eliminating aids in infants and why won't this work for young children, teens, and adults as well?
Posted by: Adam at February 5, 2005 6:18 PMAdam, it's really not Eliminating, more like interupting. So babies born to HIV infected mothers share everything of the mother, but do not have a high risk of HIV infection(placenta doesn't work that way). in the us, if you can put the mother on antiretroviral (ARV) medications, have a cesection, and use formula, the chances of transmission drop to 2% risk. in africa, there aren't cesections, many places need to breastfeed (nutrition and bad formula for water) and ARVs are limited. the study i'm working on is trying to exclusively use ARVs and see if they can drop transmission People are trying to interupt transmission in everyone, but they are trying with ARVs, medication like spermacide that stop the virus from going through the mucosal lining, and genetic engineering (vaccines are probably out, or very very far off).
sorry so much information, but thanks for asking.
Posted by: ari at February 7, 2005 11:03 AM