They don't kill the virus but they slow down its growth, which ultimately slows the progression of the disease.

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AIDS, but education of girls is less often attempted and yet even more important, because they are more likely to act to slow the spread of the virus.

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Gardasil, a vaccine for the virus that causes cervical cancer, experienced a slow in growth.

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Today 2.7 million Americans are chronically infected with this killer virus, but only 800, 000 of them know it, so slow and insidious is the course of this disease.

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