i was just wondering if people think we will ever see a cure for hiv/aids in our lifetime. also, do you think the government has a cure but they dont want to market it because the drug companies would lose so much money? i was just wondering people's opinions on this.
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yes.
2 :
maybe one day.
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first of all we'll more then likely see a cure within the next few generations.. and the government doesn't have a cure... there are no drug companies making money from HIV/AIDS only people dying
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they found a cure already... check the website i included its not passed by the fda or clinical trials but its definitely a huge step in getting there. its also not proved to treat all patients but has definitely cured one person thus far. how long til a cure passes, well in our generation is a definite posibility.
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I do not believe that there is a cure for HIV. The main reason there is no cure at this point is that the virus mutates (changes) so much, that any vaccine or treatment may kill or prevent one or two mutations, but not all of them. Progress has been made; I hope there will be a cure someday, but I don't know if it will be in my lifetime. (I am 35 yrs old.)
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http://www.coconut-connections.com/hivandaids.htm http://www.coconutoil.com/hiv.htm read those
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It is possible that HIV will be eradicated from the earth in our lifetimes. This could occur whether or not there ever is a "cure" for the disease. Diseases can be controlled through combinations of three things: 1. Cures that kill the disease germs after they get into the body. Antibiotics do this for many bacterial diseases, such as strep throat. 2. Vaccines that prevent you from getting the disease in the first place even if you are exposed. Only a fraction of the population has to be vaccinated for a disease to die out in a population. 3. Global programs to reduce the spread of the disease. All that is required for a disease to die out is that its spread be reduced enough that each infected person in turn infects, on average, fewer than one uninfected person. Combinations of these three have eliminated smallpox from the earth, even though there is no cure for smallpox, once someone is infected. The same seems to be within grasp for polio and certain diseases. Specifically about HIV, on Point 1, there is no "cure" today, but anti-retroviral drugs slow the disease down so much in the body that people can lead a half-way normal life if they keep up the drugs for life. Many research groups are working to find cures, but there is no way to know from where, or if ever, it will arrive. On Point 2, there is no vaccine today either. This has been very elusive, in part because the virus changes its form so rapidly once it gets into the body that is is like developing 1000 vaccines to hit each of its diverse forms. On Point 3, this may be possible even without solutions for Points 1 and 2. Despite how it spreads and destroys societies, it still spreads relatively slowly, compared with many other diseases. A study that hit the world press recently gives hope that if we had near-100% HIV testing worldwide coupled with today's anti-retroviral drugs, that would change the disease from an expanding to a contracting epidemic, and cause it ultimately to vanish from the world. Everybody in the field is working very hard to reverse this new world plague of humanity. Nobel prizes are waiting for those who solve it. Nobody, in government, industry, acedemia, or elsewhere, has a solution that they are just keeping secret. This and other STDs are simply one of the great, difficult, elusive, devastating problems of the 21st century yet to be solved.
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money is the root of all evil. why do you think herpes hasnt been cured they dont want to they can make way more money just depressing it and people buying there pills for life think about it.
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They have done testing on aids, found that bone marrow transplant can cure it, in some cases
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