Dying or not dying

HIV is still lethal...

September 2009, the breaking news about HIV : a vaccine trial has a positive result. Thai scientists have been working decades on it. People have a one chance in three of not being infected with HIV when they put a risk. On the other hand, those who are already infected, AIDS patients still have to deal with triple combination therapy. A first move to a real and 100% efficient vaccine?

We still have to be careful. We remind you that condom is the only way to avoid this terrible and fatal disease.

Today, the fight against AIDS is back in news papers. The football world cup starts in a few weeks, South Africa is the country the most affected by HIV. Governments warn supporters about risks : use condoms.

In 2009 it was estimated that 33.4 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and that AIDS killed an estimated 2,1 million people.

H1N1 is no more lethal...

During the 2009 year, we all feared to be infected by the biggest pandemic flu of the century, the H1N1 virus. This disease traveled all over the world in few weeks, it scared people, governments, secretary of health, WHO... everybody felt concerned. We changed our habits because of the virus. Countries decided to stock up in massive doses med vaccines in order to protect the population. What a mistake! In November, the WHO alert is removed, the pandemic flu stopped.

Questions changed into : how much money was spend for the vaccine? How many doses do we have left? How governments will deal with this waste? The public opinion was upset... At the end 6000 persons died from this virus all over the world.

L.M.