Not getting infected? That sounds like circa 1983 talk. But we've known for at least 14 years that green tea is an effective immune booster, has antioxidents, probably boosts T-cells, etc.etc.etc. So what's new here?

If green tea was a cure for hiv, why is it that chinese have hiv and they are the ones who drink and eat green tea. The only cure is prevention

Hey Diva, read carefully:

It helps "reduce the risk" and "slow down" the infection/spread of HIV. Nobody ever said anything about a cure.

we need more explanations not to waste time reading suggestions that are not based on human evidence, people from the Asian countries have been drinking such tea for almost 2 000 years, but HIV is still spreading.

I guess green tea is good for us. But I don't think it currently can cure anything, maybe it helps to reduce and slower down virus attack. No one have done reseach on a human that practically drinks green tea since a baby! :D

martini-boy says:
Hey Diva, read carefully:
It helps "reduce the risk" and "slow down" the infection/spread of HIV. Nobody ever said anything about a cure.

Dude, read the quote: "drinking green tea could reduce the risk of becoming infected by HIV" - that's what I object STRONGLY!!! to. That's the kind of crazy talk these idiots like the president of S. Africa and now some other African country use to "cure" people with AIDS. We DON'T need this nonsense being spread by medical journals!!!!!

nystudman... this is not nonsense, it's simple biology... EGCG binds to the EXACT same receptor on CD4 cells as HIV. If these receptors are occupied, HIV cannot bind and infect the cell.

more info:
Baylor College of Medicine
http://www.bcm.edu/fromthelab/vol06/is2/0307-1.html