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HIV turned out to be easier to treat than prevent.
by lupire 3y ago
HIV turned out to be easier to treat than prevent.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoSort of. PrEP exists for high risk populations. For cures: Currently, it is if you're able and willing to wipe out your own bone marrow and able to find a compatible donor who's immune. 2 giant expensive and risky IF's. CRISPR personalized medicine may also work: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/25/1082306/gene-editing-crispr-hiv-experiment/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/25/1082306/gene-edi...
- huytersd 3y agoNo one does that surgery unless you have very advanced lymphoma. It’s not a cure.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoYou're weaseling with the ambiguity of the word "cure". I already stated the extreme conditions that approach would require. It has resulted in deliberate, although incidental, cures several times. It was certainly a cure for them. CRISPR personalized approaches are more promising by precisely excising vDNA. There is no panacea here.
- huytersd 3y agoBased on your username, I’m not sure if you have HIV but EBT 101 has begun human trials as of last year and we should find out how it turns out before the end of this year. It’s from the same team that was able to eliminate SIV from primates using the same techniques.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoVery cool! Thanks, but don't need it. (Actually a platelet donor.) I couldn't fit a whole AC/DC title into hn's restrictions, and it originally had something to do with electricity.
- huytersd 3y agoIf treat means a lifetime of a much higher OI risk and a 2000% higher risk of cancer.
- robocat 3y agoOI? Please expand acronyms: we're not all in your context.
- huytersd 3y agoOpportunistic infections. TB is the number one killer of people with HIV that are medicated. Along with a host of other viruses, fungi and MRSAs. You might live for 30 years after contracting HIV but they’re going to be sick, medically expensive years.