AIDS cure

[THguypattaya]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44584769/ns/health-aids/?ocid=twitter#.TnhFV1umRI4

[gonesamui]

This certainly is good news for all HIV infected. But still it's a long way from an actual medicine, but at the moment it offers good hope.

[Arwen]

There have been quite a lot of progressive articles so certainly encouraging. Given that Obama recently apologised to a Carribean nation that USA (in 50s?) infected hundreds intentionally with STDs as an experiment, it seems likely that HIV could have been grown in a lab and cured in a lab.

 

Wikipedia - of the 2.8 million infections in 2009, inserted penile-vaginal intercourse accounts for 5 (.05%) cases.

 

Certain racial demographics are more at risk.

[QuotaMan]

I suspect news like these, while encouraging, will only serve to re-affirm the bareback brigade to continue doing so, as in their minds there will be a cure "soon," and that the odds of catching HIV from bareback sex is "minimal" as to not even worry about (ignorance is bliss).

[Arwen]

Putting words in quote marks just not make them scarier or more true.

[oldschool1965]

Too corrupt to have a cure or vaccine for aids, the money is not in a cure, its in the medicine!Why have a cure where victims only pay once and then are good to go when you can have them dependant and buying medicine for treatment for life. I do not belive they have this virus mapped out where you can treat it so effectively nowadays but you cant kill it!

[THguypattaya]

so are you saying they still don't understand the virus completely and also even if they do, they don't want to have a cure since they want to make money?

[Harry Brown]

Science has discovered immunizations for viruses but they have not found a cure or antidote for a virus yet

[Arwen]

Smallpox? It was eradicated

[Harry Brown]

Smallpox? It was eradicated

 

yes eradicated but not by curing it , mainly due to mass immunization and isolation. In the 70s

 

 

 

 

[oldschool1965]

so are you saying they still don't understand the virus completely and also even if they do, they don't want to have a cure since they want to make money?

 

I'm saying we should have a vaccine by now if we can treat a virus to the point of controlling it. I think that having people dependent on lifelong treatments that keep you paying the drug companies is better to them than selling a vaccine one time

[obsrving]

God I wish that were the case, the problem is it simply isn't true. The company that comes out with the definitive cure or immunization is going to have BILLIONS of doses on its hands at the cost of a few cents each. Do they make money on continuing support? Sure, but it is extremely expensive to develop and they have to keep changing what they do. Plus the treatments are harmful to people, which you might say "good, so they can sell more medicine" but the reality is they lose money on much of what they have made because of the constant costs to take meds through approval procedures.

 

The guys who come up with it will be heros and RICH BEYOND BELIEF. Thats the real goal.

[ginseng]

There will be a massive sexual revolution when a vaccine for HIV arrives. It will far surpass what happen in the 60's. I will be in Pattaya doing my part when this day arrives.