Avert.org

Avert.org is a very effective, accurate, clear and credible source on AIDs and HIV throughout the world. This organization focuses on the prevention, history, science and facts of AIDs and HIV. The site began in 1995 and only had 30 people reading it a month. Today it is acclaimed as the worlds most popular AIDs website. According to Avert.org on their site information page "In November 2005 AVERT.org was selected by the British Medical Association (BMA) as the winner of the BMA Patient Information Award for Websites. The website was praised by judges for being “very well referenced, information rich and possessing a clean look”." Chairman Peter Kanabus received this reward.  
This website is layed out very well. It is very methodical because it has tabs on the left side of the page to help viewers get where they want to go. It also has bold labels for finding important subjects. Such as donate AIDs, HIV, ect...Each of these brings you to a page full of information. The website is written very well, clear and easy to understand.
Avert.org is very accurate. I think the fact that they were awarded the BMA award and was reported as "very well referenced, information rich and possessing a clean look". This site is very well sourced and they obviously update it regularly because they have very up to date information throughout the entire website.
Anyone interested in AIDs or HIV can find pretty much anything they need on Avert.org. Avert covers prevention, transmission and testing, treatment and care, statistics, history, science, epidemic, the continents Africa, Asia, Americas and Europe, sex, STDs, teens and gays & lesbians. There is also a part under Contact Us that states "If you have already tried our help and advice page, or if you cannot find what it is you are looking for then try typing the keywords into our search page. If you still cannot find the information you need through this then please email us sending your question to info@avert.org, and we will do our best to answer any question you have." So a person seeking information never has to leave empty handed.
Avert.org has been a source for people seeking help and information about AIDs since 1995. For being around for such a short time they are a very well established website that helps millions of people every day. Avert has proven its self as clear, accurate, credible and affective for people seeking help across the world.

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Kanabus, Peter. "Avert.org." AIDS & HIV Information from the AIDS Charity AVERT. 1995. Web. 23 Oct. 2010. <http://www.avert.org/>.

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Research in finding a cure for AIDs

Many doctors & scientists have researched a cure for AIDs for many years. There has been medicine created to slow down the effects of AIDs. This medicine is called antiretroviral treatment. This is in a pill and must be taken daily. But antiretroviral treatment is scarce in third world countries where AIDs is running ramped. Even though this drug brings the HIV virus to low levels, it is still hiding in the persons cells. If the medicine is taken away the HIV virus leaks back into the surface. 

Although there isn't a cure for AIDs yet, scientists are working as hard as ever to find one. According to avert.org "Many researchers believe the best hope for eradicating HIV infection lies in combining antiretroviral treatment with drugs that flush HIV from its hiding places. The idea is to force resting CD4 cells to become active, whereupon they will start producing new HIV particles. The activated cells should soon die or be destroyed by the immune system, and the antiretroviral medication should mop up the released HIV." But the virus resurfaced once the patients stopped taking the antiretroviral drugs."  Another hope to cure AIDs is through bone marrow transplants & gene therapy. In 2008 a pair of German doctors announced that they have cured a man of AIDs by using a bone marrow transplant. Patients were tested prior to 1996 who were HIV positive by using bone marrow transplants, but only two came back cured. Although bone marrow transplants are curing some results in curing AIDs, it is to expensive and dangerous to use world wide. Gene therapy is also in the process of being studied as a cure but it will be years before test results are complete. According to Arthur Caplan in his article "Giving up on gene therapy is wrong reaction" he states: "The irony of gene therapy is that despite its name, it has achieved little in the past decade in terms of therapy but has, rather, been associated with serious problems including deaths.  Eight years ago, 18-year-old Jesse Gelsinger died in an early experiment with gene therapy at the University of Pennsylvania." Although there has been many issues with gene therapy there is a lot of hope too. New studies are being created every day to end AIDs.

Researchers are more adjacent to finding a cure for AIDs every day. The cure for AIDs is almost tangible. The research is getting stronger through all the time. Those invected with HIV have more hope with every generation of wise scientists & doctors who are determined to beat this disease.

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Avert.org. "A Cure for AIDS." AIDS & HIV Information from the AIDS Charity AVERT. 16 Sept. 2010. Web. 16 Oct. 2010. <http://www.avert.org/cure-for-aids.htm>.

Caplan, Arthur. "Giving up on Gene Therapy Is Wrong Reaction." MSNBC. 17 Sept. 2007. Web. 16 Oct. 2010. <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20820827/>.

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Background on AIDs and the effect the Enviornment has

 AIDs is a disease that is killing millions of people each year, a large portion of these are children. The definition of AIDs according to WorldIQ.com is "AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, sometimes written Aids) is a human diseaseimmune system. It is widely accepted that AIDS results from infection with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), although this hypothesis is not without controversy. AIDS is currently considered incurable; where treatments are unavailable (mostly in poorer countries) most sufferers die within a few years of infection. In developed countries, treatment has improved greatly over the past decade, and people have lived with AIDS for ten to twenty years." characterized by progressive destruction of the body's

AIDs is an epidemic that is sweeping the world. With it killing 2 million people in 2008 and 25 million people have died since 1981 according to Avert, Averting HIV and AIDs. "In developing and transitional countries, 9.5 million people are in immediate need of life-saving AIDS drugs; of these, only 4 million (42%) are receiving the drugs"

 That means that less than half of the people needing the drug to survive are not receiving it. According to Water.org "884 million people lack access to safe water supplies; approximately one in eight people and 3.575 million people die each year from water-related disease." This means that a third of the percent of people living without the life saving pill they need also are living with clean water. Something must be done. Luckily things are being done and changes are being made to help those who are infected with AIDs.

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I went to EasyBib.com but they were asking for an article author and a lot of things that the websites didnt list them. Or the electronically published date, which I couldn't find either. So here is a list of the websites that I quoted and used:

http://www.avert.org/worldstats.htm

http://water.org/learn-about-the-water-crisis/facts/

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/AIDS