Day 18

I somehow can’t get over the fact that today is already April. 2011 has only just begun. I still feel the the warm wind drying off my skin after swim in the Atlantic Ocean on 1st January during our vacation in Playa del Ingles and here watching jokes that TV presenters prepared for the ‘fools day’.

The time seems to pass faster proportionally with our increasing age. I know i am making any discoveries with such statement, but boy this year is going fast. In less then 3 weeks i will be 1 year older again. When i look on things from the mathematical point of you then i can say that over 26% of my life i live with HIV. Nothing really interesting about it, simply a fact. Yesterday i was looking at the statistics of this blog and i would like to share with you some of these numbers. Overall, the blog was (hit) looked at almost 350 times. All i can say is: WOW. I really didn’t expect that... This makes average of 19 hits per day. Even more interesting is the audience from the geographical point of view: United Kingdom, Poland, United States, Spain, Indonesia (!!!) India (!!!)

The stats provided to blog editor / owner can even provide info on internet browsers used to open the blog. Yes, i am not kidding. 205  times (60%) the blog was opened with Safari; 76 times (21%) with Internet Explorer; for the rest of 19% my readers used: Apple-PubSub, Firefox and Mobile browsers. There are many other stats and i don’t want to bore you with all these numbers. I just want to say is: Thank You ! Thank You for following my ‘blabbering away’ in my broken english. As i have recently said in one of the posts, i am enjoying it and i intend to continue to share with you my thoughts and feelings, news, poetry... and some statistics too ;)

Today i would also like to share with you a small article i have found on:  www.positivenation.co.uk 

Body's own immune cells could offer a potential cure for HIV

Researchers, from Oxford based company Adaptimmune Limited, have developed a new therapy for treating HIV using the patients own modified immune systems cells to fight the virus more successfully.
The therapy - which has proved effective in lab tests using human cell cultures - will be tested in a clinical trial of 35 people with advanced HIV infection, at the University of Pennsylvania, is due to commence next summer. The study was originally published in Nature Medicine.
Adaptimmune developed the therapy after investigating a patient who had resisted his HIV infection particularly effectively.When the company tested the T cells from that patient, it looked as if they were responding to a number of variants that normally escape the immune system.
Treating patients will involve taking a blood sample and adding an engineered virus containing genes for the improved T-cell receptor. The patient"s own T-cells then take up the genes and so are equipped with the improved receptor. These cells are then injected back into the patient.
Garry Brough from the Terrence Higgins Trust said: "This is potentially very good news for people living with HIV. The ability of HIV to mutate and become resistant to drugs is a significant problem, so any research which might lead to a new treatment option gives people a much better chance of staying well for longer."