Edsel Salvaña: The dangerous evolution of HIV
Edsel Salvaña: Nevarna evolucija virusa 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.
in najbolj modro nebo na planetu.
HIV epidemics in the world.
HIV epidemij na svetu.
as if we are just a late bloomer.
da smo samo pozno začeli.
for our current epidemic
a global resurgence of HIV.
ponovno globalno pojavljanje HIV-a.
continue to drop in the world,
HIV-a po svetu zmanjšuje,
and resistant viruses arrive.
agresivnih in odpornih virusov.
into a new and different virus
v nov in drugačen virus,
we've made in reversing the epidemic,
ki smo ga dosegli pri zaviranju epidemije,
viral mutations away from disaster.
mutacij stran od katastrofe.
in which HIV transforms itself
se HIV preobrazi vsakič,
among humans of different races
med različnimi rasami
is only 0.1 percent.
in rhesus opicami,
and rhesus macaques,
between HIV subtypes
med podtipi HIV-a
between an infecting mother virus
med prvotnim virusom okužbe
as much as five percent.
giving birth to a chimpanzee,
rodila šimpanza,
within its lifetime.
vse to v svojem življenju.
being discovered regularly.
is almost all of one subtype:
samo ene podvrste:
and do to treat HIV
da bi pozdravili HIV,
narejenih na podtipu B,
accounts for 12 percent
of cases of HIV in the world.
genetic difference
to become drug-resistant
da bodo postali odporni na zdravila
of HIV cases in the Philippines
primerov HIV-a na Filipinih
from the Western subtype B
z zahodnega podtipa B
Southeast Asian subtype AE.
iz jugovzhodne Azije.
in developed countries,
Canada and the United States.
in Združenimi državami.
explosion of cases in these countries.
eksplozijo primerov v teh državah.
da smo s HIV-om opravili
it can come right back.
malaria was on the ropes.
stopped paying attention.
of drug-resistant malaria.
malarije, odporne na zdravila.
that we think we've figured out,
ki ga dobro poznamo,
and highly unique viruses,
spreminjajočih se in unikatnih virusov,
the next deadly epidemic.
naslednjo smrtonosno epidemijo.
more powerful and new tools
the next deadly HIV strain,
smrtonosnega seva virusa HIV
with urgent research
z nujnim raziskovanjem
of non-B subtypes.
je umrlo zaradi HIV-a.
of an AIDS-free generation.
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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