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Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV
sciencehabit writes "Over the past few years, a man living in Berlin, Timothy Brown, has become world famous as the first — and thus far only — person to apparently have been cured of his HIV infection. Brown's HIV disappeared after he developed leukemia and doctors gave him repeated blood transfusions from a donor who harbored a mutated version of a receptor the virus uses to enter cells. Now, researchers report promising results from two small gene-therapy studies that mimic this strategy, hinting that the field may be moving closer to a cure that works for the masses."
Doctors do not cure. Not in America. They treat. They can't make a money off of you for as long as you live if they cure you. If they treat you, they can milk you until you die.
Doctors don't cure.
The cure means that your patients have a real shot at rebuilding their lives and finances. It means that they will be a candidate for other medical services for perhaps the next half century or more.
In America, it depends entirely on how much money you make and how you got it. If you're Magic Johnson, then you can pay the exhorbitant treatment costs and people will still love you because you're a celebrity and you got AIDS through normal heterosexual sex and you will still prop up the economy buying nice things.
If you're a poor junkie or middle-class homo, no way. The establishment wants you dead after they milk your meager resources dry while you pay for treatment. It's what you deserve for being a sinner, especially in an environment where people like Bachmann, Perry, and Romney are considered to be serious candidates for president.
Being a poor or middle-class American with AIDS is like being a Jew living in Nazi Germany - your days are numbered.