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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."
Why'd you have to release this story? Now sex workers all over the world will be killing each other to get their hands on these drugs. Eventually their diseases will become super-strains and come back with a vengence!
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Brilliant! We'll just make vaccines! Why has no one thought of this before? I guess it's just one of those things that seems obvious in hindsight.
I don't get it, personally. How many Slashdotters are actually at risk? The only way I could see someone around here getting it is from a blood transfusion.
This alone indicates the amount of risk people are willing to take is high!
Or it means people don't ask stupid questions. If someone knows they have HIV and are still going to have sex with you, they're not going to go, "Oh, yeah, I have AIDS. I just didn't think you'd care."
"Wait, you didn't WANT herpes? Dude, I'm sorry, I didn't know. Totally my bad."
This is slashdot. Nobody here is having sex with anyone.
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