Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Why has the search for the cure of HIV/AIDS reduced

Why has the search for the cure of HIV/AIDS reduced?
Is it because it nomore affects people in the Developed countries? Are the doctors still working on it? Is it lack of funds to continue the search for the cure? Or research doctors think cure is impossible. Does the disease not bother us, since it has shifted away from us?
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1 :
I once heard that researchers have found the cure for aids. The system makes money from people paying for the drugs used for the treatment. The disease would rather not go away so more people die and more money is made from these drugs. They feel the world is over populated anyway and don't care about the increasing death rate. I don't know how far true that is. If this is true it's a shame indeed.
2 :
I agree with the last awnser, but all the cures have not been approved by the FDA. Also, new conditions spred out like breast cancer, and diabeties.
3 :
HIV/AIDS is not as greatly feared as it was when it was first discovered, because scientists and physicians have learned much more about the virus and its natural history and course of disease progression, as well as finding medicines that make it less of a death sentence and more like a chronic disease. This isn't to suggest the search for a cure has completely stopped; I think the focus has changed somewhat to making it easier to live with HIV/AIDS during the time before a cure is found. Or perhaps we have just not reached a level of understanding or technology that would allow for the development of a cure. People with HIV/AIDS are living longer than they used to, at least in countries where there is access to antiretroviral drugs like AZT and related compounds. Part of the reason, I think, for less research is that much of the scourge of this disease is occurring in developing countries where the cost of new technologies and drugs is prohibitive. (I.e., the overwhelming majority of people infected with HIV/AIDS in places like Subsaharan Africa are far too poor to afford the costs of treatment with antiretrovirals, so they are less likely to receive such treatment.) HIV/AIDS is still a very real threat to certain risk groups, and it is still being spread. Perhaps part of the problem in the US is that it's now so "old hat" (discovered in about 1981) that it's not nearly as frightening generally. This kind of complacency could become a real problem if it results in less attention to prevention; some studies suggest this is already happening among the youngest sexually active generation and among the oldest one. That's one good reason the search for a cure should continue, IMHO.

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