Mobile Ministry Magazine: Possible AIDS/HIV Cure

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Thursday, February 09, 2006

Possible AIDS/HIV Cure

This is way off the beaten path of articles here and is by no means the direction that articles are heading (staying tech and ministry), but due to its shear importance on a world scale, it is being also mentioned here as a item for discussion and prayer.

Snippet: Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do. And, unlike the expensive, drug cocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV. Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system. Read more...

If this is done, this would be one of the biggest medical breakthrus in a long time. Please keep this item in prayer, and if you are in the position where you can encourage the people working on this project, please do.