HIV: Problems and Perspectives

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com eventually acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) [1]. The first case report of AIDS appeared in 1981 with the identification of previously healthy homosexual men from the USA who presented with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Kaposi’s sarcoma [2,3]. The virus was first isolated by Barre-Sinoussi et al. [2], and was the second human retrovirus leading to the isolation of human T-cell leukemia/lymphoma virus type 1 (HTLV-1) in 1981 [3-5]. Human immunodeficiency virus is one of the important problems of infectious pathology of the 21st century. About 40 million people in different countries are living with this virus today. The number of cases of HIV is increasing to more than 2.0 million people every year and about 1 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses. Unfortunately, the proportion of patients infected with sexually transmitted HIV increases every year, indicating the need to review the principles of prevention and treatment of HIV infection. For example, in some countries, up to 50% women got the virus from their husbands [6].