Cvr Podcast Contagious Thinking

CVR Contagious Thinking Episode #24: World AIDS Day with HIV expert Professor David Robertson, PI and head of bioinformatics at the CVR. Today, the 1st of December marks World AIDS day. A day designed to raise awareness of those 37 million people infected with HIV (and the potential for that number to grow) and this year aims to end Isolation, Stigma, and Transmission, under the umbrella of a ‘right to health’. This day is one of 9 Global Health days of the World Health Organisation alongside other infections like Tuberculosis, Malaria and Hepatitis. AIDS - or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - is caused by HIV or human immunodeficiency virus. HIV is a kind of virus called a retrovirus, which means it can stick itself into our own DNA making it extremely hard to get rid of. There is currently no vaccine to stop you from contracting HIV and there is no cure if you do get infected. Those people infected can never rid themselves of the virus but can stop developing AIDS by taking medicine, known as antivira