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Drugs May Offer AIDS Prevention
FlipFlopSnowMan writes "There is an interesting article on MSNBC about the possibility of preventing AIDS using the same pills that are currently used to fight the virus in affected individuals." From the article: "The drugs are tenofovir (Viread) and emtricitabine, or FTC (Emtriva), sold in combination as Truvada by Gilead Sciences Inc., a California company best known for inventing Tamiflu, a drug showing promise against bird flu. Unlike vaccines, which work through the immune system -- the very thing HIV destroys -- AIDS drugs simply keep the virus from reproducing. They already are used to prevent infection in health care workers accidentally exposed to HIV, and in babies whose pregnant mothers receive them."
"Now sex workers all over the world will be killing each other to get their hands on these drugs."
As opposed to the usual drugs they're desparate for?
The alternate nut job theory is that greenies are preventing the vaccine from coming to market.
After all, it has accellerated the population balance in Africa and South East Asia by increasing the death rate.
AIDS is just Nature's way of say there are too many fucking humans...
OTH, this is one of the few communicable lifetime diseases that has NOT resulted in wholesale quarenteens and sanitariums like leprosy and tuberculosis.
Instead, Typhoid Mary's are allowed to go about their lives, ending others lives with their actions.
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
Unless you are a medical worker, I don't see why this is a story on Slashdot, since the majority of readers never have sex, and therefore, are naturally immune to AIDS. -1 Flamebait! ;)