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Cure for AIDS? Is this Hyperbole or was there some news I missed?

• schoen 11y ago
  "Effective treatment" rather than "cure". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS The results of antiretroviral drugs have been astonishing, and most people with a new HIV diagnosis for whom multidrug antiretroviral therapy is available (and who comply with it) will never expect to develop AIDS symptoms. "Effective treatment" is in the body of the post, while "cure" is in the title, and is misleading.
  • rpietro 11y ago
    agree, nowadays HIV infection is a kind of chronic condition, far removed from what it used to be
    • melling 11y ago
      We've spent a fortune on AIDS research in the past 30 years. Why wouldn't we expect to have treatments? http://blogs.poz.com/peter/assets_c/2009/03/NIH_AIDS_Research_Budget-thumb-540x367-2.gif http://blogs.poz.com/peter/assets_c/2009/03/NIH_AIDS_Researc... We could do so much more research for all diseases. Personally, in 1985, I would have expected cancer, AIDS, and many other major disease to all be cured by now. It's actually depressing how much work remains.
• chrisyeh 11y ago
  I had to conserve characters--that 80 character limit is hard!