Edsel Salvaña: The dangerous evolution of HIV
Edsel Salvaña: La pericolosa evoluzione dell'HIV
TED Fellow Edsel Salvaña studies the genetics of HIV, and he worries that we are just a few mutations away from the next deadly pandemic. Full bio
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and bluest skies on the planet.
e i cieli più blu del pianeta.
HIV epidemics in the world.
di epidemia di HIV nel mondo.
as if we are just a late bloomer.
solo tra i ritardatari.
for our current epidemic
a global resurgence of HIV.
dell'HIV a livello globale.
continue to drop in the world,
continuano a calare nel mondo,
and resistant viruses arrive.
più aggressiva del virus.
into a new and different virus
in un virus diverso
we've made in reversing the epidemic,
fatti nel contrastare l'epidemia,
viral mutations away from disaster.
a poche mutazioni dal disastro.
in which HIV transforms itself
trasformazione dell'HIV
among humans of different races
tra esseri umani di diverse razze,
is only 0.1 percent.
è solo dello 0,1 per cento.
and rhesus macaques,
grandi scimmie e macachi
between HIV subtypes
tra sottotipi di HIV
between an infecting mother virus
tra un il virus madre
as much as five percent.
giving birth to a chimpanzee,
che mette al mondo uno scimpanzé,
within its lifetime.
nell'arco della sua vita.
being discovered regularly.
con regolarità.
is almost all of one subtype:
è quasi tutto di un sottotipo:
and do to treat HIV
e facciamo per trattare l'HIV
accounts for 12 percent
of cases of HIV in the world.
di HIV nel mondo.
genetic difference
to become drug-resistant
di essere resistenti ai farmaci
of HIV cases in the Philippines
dei casi di HIV nelle Filippine
from the Western subtype B
del sottotipo B occidentale
Southeast Asian subtype AE.
del Sudest asiatico.
sempre più giovani e malati
in developed countries,
nei Paesi sviluppati,
Canada and the United States.
il Canada e gli Stati Uniti.
explosion of cases in these countries.
un'esplosione di casi in questi Paesi.
di aver chiuso con l'HIV
it can come right back.
può tornare indietro.
malaria was on the ropes.
la malaria era sotto controllo.
stopped paying attention.
di prestare attenzione.
of drug-resistant malaria.
della malaria resistente ai farmaci.
that we think we've figured out,
che pensiamo di aver capito,
and highly unique viruses,
che si evolvono rapidamente,
the next deadly epidemic.
la prossima epidemia.
more powerful and new tools
nuovi strumenti più forti
the next deadly HIV strain,
il prossimo ceppo mortale di HIV,
with urgent research
con una ricerca urgente
of non-B subtypes.
dei sottotipi diversi da B.
sono morte di HIV.
of an AIDS-free generation.
di una generazione senza AIDS.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Edsel Salvaña - Infectious disease specialist, molecular epidemiologistTED Fellow Edsel Salvaña studies the genetics of HIV, and he worries that we are just a few mutations away from the next deadly pandemic.
Why you should listen
Dr. Edsel Salvaña discovered that the driving force behind a new AIDS epidemic in the Philippines is the entry and spread of a deadlier strain of HIV -- a situation that can easily occur anywhere in the world.
Salvaña is an infectious disease specialist, molecular epidemiologist and is the director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the National Institutes of Health at the University of the Philippines in Manila. He is using next-generation sequencing and other cutting-edge genetic tools to study HIV viral diversity and superinfection. He is looking at how HIV develops drug resistance to better understand why his country suddenly has the fastest growing HIV epidemic in Asia; and why HIV treatment that works well in developed countries is failing on emerging HIV strains in the Philippines and resource-limited settings. He trains doctors in infectious diseases, and supervises the care of several thousand HIV patients at the Philippine General Hospital. He has been a national force in the formulation of HIV treatment guidelines, campaigning against stigma, and raising awareness.
Salvaña's advocacy work has been featured in Science, and he has been recognized with numerous national and international awards including the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World" from JCI International and the Young Physician Leader Award from the Interacademy Medical Panel of the World Academy of Sciences. He was named a TED Fellow in 2017.
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