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Twice-yearly injection offers 100% protection against HIV

34 points by gmays 2y ago

sircastor 2y ago
All other things aside, can I say how miraculous this feels? I grew up in the 80s and 90s and when we were learning about HIV and AIDS in school, it felt terrifying and unstoppable. The leaps and bounds that medicine has made over the last 40 years on this front is amazing.
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ChrisArchitect 2y ago
[dupe] Release a month ago: https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2024/6/gileads-twiceyearly-lenacapavir-demonstrated-100-efficacy-and-superiority-to-daily-truvada-for-hiv-prevention https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea... And lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163
marklubi 2y ago
Quite frankly, I'm really bothered by the HIV drug commercial that says that it makes the virus "undetectable" So you're saying that it's still there, but you'll test negative for your partner? Disingenuous and disgusting.
- _qua 2y ago
  Undetectable = Untransmittable has been a mantra in the field for years because there is good data that people who have 0 detectable circulating copies of the virus cannot transmit it.
  - marklubi 2y ago
    Interesting, can you provide some sources for that claim? Haven't heard that before
    - _qua 2y ago
      I mean just Google that term and you will get a lot of information. There are multiple public health campaigns regarding it
    - toomuchtodo 2y ago
      https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prevention https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prev... https://www.hiv.gov/blog/science-validates-undetectable-untransmittable-hiv-prevention-message https://www.hiv.gov/blog/science-validates-undetectable-untr...
    - add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
      You called something disingenuous and disgusting without having looked up the basic facts of it?
    - cosmotic 2y ago
      https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/index.html Transmission rates: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/preventionstrategies.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/preventionstrategies.... The second link shows transmission rates of 0.00 (zero transmission) in every study of many studies for undetectable.

34 points by gmays 2y ago

All other things aside, can I say how miraculous this feels? I grew up in the 80s and 90s and when we were learning about HIV and AIDS in school, it felt terrifying and unstoppable. The leaps and bounds that medicine has made over the last 40 years on this front is amazing.

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ChrisArchitect 2y ago

[dupe] Release a month ago: https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-releases/2024/6/gileads-twiceyearly-lenacapavir-demonstrated-100-efficacy-and-superiority-to-daily-truvada-for-hiv-prevention https://www.gilead.com/news-and-press/press-room/press-relea... And lots of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40742163

marklubi 2y ago

Quite frankly, I'm really bothered by the HIV drug commercial that says that it makes the virus "undetectable" So you're saying that it's still there, but you'll test negative for your partner? Disingenuous and disgusting.

_qua 2y ago
Undetectable = Untransmittable has been a mantra in the field for years because there is good data that people who have 0 detectable circulating copies of the virus cannot transmit it.
- marklubi 2y ago
  Interesting, can you provide some sources for that claim? Haven't heard that before
  - _qua 2y ago
    I mean just Google that term and you will get a lot of information. There are multiple public health campaigns regarding it
  - toomuchtodo 2y ago
    https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prevention https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/treatment-prev... https://www.hiv.gov/blog/science-validates-undetectable-untransmittable-hiv-prevention-message https://www.hiv.gov/blog/science-validates-undetectable-untr...
  - add-sub-mul-div 2y ago
    You called something disingenuous and disgusting without having looked up the basic facts of it?
  - cosmotic 2y ago
    https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/about/index.html Transmission rates: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/preventionstrategies.html https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/preventionstrategies.... The second link shows transmission rates of 0.00 (zero transmission) in every study of many studies for undetectable.