If this man were to killed by his friend and he was brought into my court room, as judge, I will not only discharge and acquit him but recommend him fir national award.

It was coming from ota arm where it went to visit his relative whose name shall not be mentioned but starts with olu.

Why APC won't leave pres. Jonathan alone and focus on their "change" is beyond me. Shows they they have nothing to show for months in office so they keep deflecting to the other guy.

kamair237:
world bank Sec DG or not he will still be probed and if found guilty.....
He will be jailed...

ignorant mofo! So full of hate and ignorance you don't even know who is being talked about.

Arunma Oteh is a woman.

Racist from the KKK movement in the United States mocks a black man and he goes nuts..

When your hate is strong, but your bladder is weak.#blackpower.

Jonathan is corrupt!
Buharies: yesssss, off with his head!!!

Buhari is corrupt!
Buharies: wailing wailers!!

Utter rubbish! Former president and commander in chief of the armed forces of the federal republic of nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is enjoying his retirement in peace after serving his nation in every executive capacity that exist. Something no other idiot former head of state or the current one can boast of. Cheap propaganda.

NeduLuiZ:
Op you forgot the almighty 3310

it's there! Sixth from left.

This is the evolution of everybody's favourite companion, from it's advent in the 1980's to date...

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi: HIV cure is almost impossible

She spoke with CNN at this week's International AIDS Society Conference, in Vancouver, about activism, the future of HIV and why there's still no cure -- as well as answering questions submitted by our readers on Twitter.

At the beginning, the epidemic was in San Francisco in the gay community. How have you seen this change over time?

The epidemic changed in the gay population, for example, because they were very well informed and starting to protect themselves against the infection. However, we are starting again to see the epidemic starting in the gay population -- at least in a proportion of the gay population in Europe, Australia and United States. I am a little bit worried that we'll start to have the same profile of the epidemic that we were having in the early 80s.

But in the early 80s we were speaking about the profile of the epidemic in Europe or in United States because we did not know very well at that time what was going on in Africa. But we started to realize the situation in Africa around 1985, and over there it was clear that the epidemic was mostly heterosexual and still is today. The situation in Africa, in a lot of countries, is mostly a heterosexual epidemic.

How much does that issue of a resurgence in HIV in certain communities concern you?

I am really concerned and worried about that. We are not speaking as much about HIV/AIDS as we were in the 90s. The populations -- including in the developing world -- they know there is a treatment. They are less afraid about being infected by HIV and this makes things very difficult. The education and information should be adapted to this evolution. It has not been perfect. The campaigns should take into consideration that it's a treatment for life, there is a proportion of treatment, after many years, that develop complications, and there are co-morbidities.

The general population is not very well informed about co-morbidities. I saw when I gave a talk to the public, when I start to think about cancer, or aging diseases that appear in patients on long-term ARVs, they say "nobody told us." They are not fully informed and we have a responsibility.

Why do you think so much stigma and misinformation still exists around HIV?

I guess we are still suffering of the early years of HIV ... in the early 80s it was written everywhere in the media that HIV/AIDs was a disease affecting certain populations: in particular the gay population and the intravenous (IV) drug users and that's really remained in the mind of civil society in general. They still feel somehow that, first of all, it's a disease that particularly affects those people that are vulnerable but that do not belong to the regular population.

I have that kind of discussion, for example, with taxi drivers when I speak with them. You know, taxi drivers they like to speak, they say "what are you working on?" and after a while I say "I'm working on AIDS" and they say "Oh! You're working on this disease that are affecting those gay people ... you better work on other disease like cancer or any other disease that's affecting us!" (An appalled is expression upon her face). So that means a lot to me.

Even in my own country, in France ... I was strongly affected by all the discussion around gay marriage in my country. I thought that after so many years we had made progress in terms of recognition of any population and I was really upset when I saw so much conflict regarding the legislation. Fortunately, it's over and the legislation has been accepted. But still, not everybody is accepting of those populations. That makes me really mad. Really mad.


With AIDS, the people affected have been very vocal compared to other diseases. How has the activism impacted the way the field has developed?

I think it's a real partnership. The voice of the activist has been critical for the decrease of the price of drugs, antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, without them probably the prices in terms of access to the treatment would not have been possible.

It's a reason why I think this collaboration between researchers and activists is critical. For scientists, if you deliver and you have new diagnostic tests, or drugs, or vaccines and those tools are not available for everyone, then you are feeling very frustrated. And it's not acceptable. I personally believe a scientist has to become an activist somehow.

So are you an activist?

Some of my colleagues sometimes say that I am an activist and that is the best compliment they can make!

How do you feel about the stage we're at now in HIV science? At the time of your discovery did you think we'd be where we are now?

In the early 80s, personally, I think we were very naive. We were very naive after the discovery of the virus. We said, okay, now that we have found the agent responsible for the disease we will be capable to develop very fast a treatment, a cure; we will be able to develop very rapidly a vaccine and more than 30 years later we still do not have a cure, we still do not have a vaccine.

At that time we did not understand the complexity of the interaction between the virus and the body. It's really over the years that we started to understand all the complexities, not only of the virus but of this interaction, of the response of the host (patient) to the infection, the role of genetics, the role of immunology. Science has made wonderful progress but we are far from understanding everything.

And how about vaccines?

Even though we do not have a vaccine, I think we have learned a lot from the negative results as well ... it's not a failure. We are learning from negative data as much as we learn from positive data and I think vaccine research is typical of that. In the last six - seven years we are starting to see a lot of progress in the field of HIV vaccine.

I think the field of vaccinology in general is moving and maybe I am too optimistic, but I like to think because of HIV the field of vaccinology globally is moving, not only for HIV.

But difficult to say today, because we do not have a cure. I am not sure, by the way, we will have a cure. I used to say to develop a cure for HIV is an impossible mission.

What about a "functional cure"?

I prefer to say remission (when the virus is brought down to low levels in the body) ... That's possible. I'm convinced one day -- I don't know when -- we will have a strategy to induce durable remission. I don't believe that we will have only one treatment. It will be a combination of treatments.

(But) we need both -- a cure and a vaccine.


At this conference it was announced that a teenage girl was found to be in long-term remission despite giving up treatment. Should we be excited about that?

I'm not going to say it's not exciting because the people responsible for that work originate from my lab! So I cannot be objective. But no ... it's interesting data and we are learning from these patients ... It's true the studies on post-treatment controllers, we are learning which kind of response the therapeutic strategies for the future should use.

For me, it's something very critical to make progress in science.

Read: Teenager controls HIV infection without drugs for more than 12 years

Are you really not optimistic that a cure will be possible?

A cure for me is almost an impossible mission because the reservoir of cells is not only in the blood. How to eliminate all the cells which are reservoirs is why I say it's an impossible mission. They are everywhere -- in the gut, in the brain, in all the lymphoid tissue.

Even if you have a very efficient strategy, how you can make sure that there's not one or two cells still there and if one is there the virus will reappear again? That's why I say it's an impossible mission.

But you never know.

Are you really retiring this year?

That's right, in my country it's mandatory to retire. I already got three additional years. I will officially retire at the end of August. That means first of all my lab will close on 31 August, so I will not have any research activity myself. However, I will probably continue some activities of course at the Pasteur Institute ... and I will continue to be involved in international activity for the Pasteur institute.

My agenda is almost full until 2017! I'm part of different committees, boards, scientific councils and I will continue activity for the IAS (International AIDS Society), especially for HIV cure.

Do you ever wonder what your life would be like if you hadn't discovered HIV?

I guess I will have continued to work in the field of cancer, which I was before. At the end of my career now, we are returning somehow to cancer. Because the cells that are persistently infected are proliferating cells (multiply rapidly like cancer cells) ... so the field is coming back to cancer somehow.

So I'm coming back to the early days of my career ... at the end.

These are excerpts from the full interview with Francoise Barre-Sinoussi (lightly edited for clarity)

Francoise Barre-Sinoussi: HIV cure is almost impossible - CNN.com
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/23/health/francoise-barre-sinoussi-hiv/index.html?sr=cnnitw

Nothing new..unseriousness and incompetence in the federal government of nigeria did not start with buhari, but thought he promised us "change".

These are men who create jobs for a lot of nigeria's and the least their president can do is to carry them along in international circles so they can meet and solicit for buisness fir the unemployed back home. Even obama went to India with nearly 400 u.s buisness leaders. The thinking of this buhari is rather puzzling.

My dad told me that it was from the late 1980's, during babangida's regime that generals started having pot belly.

General,Just get some soldiers and do some more group push ups, i'm sure that'll scare them.

Rochas okorocha looks like a marketer at alaba international market. Money does not buy you style o! How sad!!

Jim ovia a buisness minute that employs thousands in nigeria is not permitted to be with his president to seek more businesses and jobs for Nigerians from the international community but the wife of an inconsequential governor is tagging along. Okay!!

Is'nt this the kind of friendship we all want?

PassingShot:
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I thought as much!! When you don't have anything to say, shut up.

U

PassingShot:
[size=15pt]TANoids are illiterates![/size]

To them, since PMB met a virtually empty treasury, Nigeria has no right to have any money nor even earn any more.

See them wailing at every news, good or bad:

your president met an empty treasury but did'nt provide any valid audit or proof of that utterly idiotic postulation and since he started "replenishing" the empty treasury where is the accountability and proof to buttress it? No finance minister, national economic council(without finance minister) inuagrated weeks ago and has met only once. Propaganda can only take you so far my dear.

More magic money from the virtually empty treasury...

The man just sew that fine, new atibo for nothing..

More magic money from the "virtually empty treasury"...

When you do an in depth study of Christianity and all religions in general and their vague tenets, you wonder how they manage to keep fellow humans with a functioning brain under their followership.

Nigeria is gonna loose big time for senseless foreign policy shift from the east back to the west. After all the efforts Yar adua and jonathan to project nigeria as a neutral player on the world stage, this government is turning things around and fir what? What do we stand to gain except being further alienated from other emerging economies as we're seen as trojan horses for the west.

atlwireles:
The Americans are not stupid That Picture with the chinese President is a major reason why washington went into overide to stop GEJ.

exactly! A lot of them forgot that when jonathan was sworn in newly, he visited the u.s and was given a rock star welcome at the nuclear summit. Just by asking, nigeria's name was lifted off the terrorist list but when jonathan started looking east for other friend, they turned on him and now they have a new puppet.

They want you to think buhari is the best thing to happen to nigeria since slice bread and we were widely disrespected until his buhariness came and saved the day!!

Pictures APC does not want you to see...

Picture according to sane minds.
Pres. Jonathan shares a light hearted moment with the pres. Obama, p.m cameron and chancellor merkel.

Picture according to APC if buhari was in it:
In an unprecedented move in the history of nigeria, pres. Buhari discusses with the leaders of three world powers, more evidence of nigeria's growing respect under pres. Buhari.

This is how you threat an equal head of state or government.

Thug.

The new normal for nigeria.

The only difference is that people like tinubu will now be the major beneficiaries.