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Can A New HIV Drug Kill The Virus That Causes AIDS? (scmp.com)
"A team led by scientists from the University of Hong Kong has developed a new antibody drug that will not only protect people from contracting HIV but also serve as a long-acting treatment for the virus, unlike current medication that must be taken daily." Slashdot reader hackingbear shared this article from the South China Morning Post:
There will need to be a further battery of tests before the drug, named "BiIA-SG", can be part of the global battle against the virus, which causes Aids. The research team has so far only tested the drug on mice but is now looking to experiment on larger animals such as monkeys, before conducting clinical trials on humans. Still, Professor Chen Zhiwei, the team leader and director of HKU's Aids Institute, stressed the scientific discovery had yielded "one of the most potent and effective antibody drugs". This is because the study showed that mice given the drug before being infected with HIV were protected from the virus for about a week.
In addition, the experiments, which also involved experts from mainland medical and research institutions, found that when mice were infected with HIV before being treated, 42 per cent had an "undetectable level" of the virus for at least four weeks after one injection of antibodies... The tests found that the drug was effective against 124 strains of HIV, including those that are commonly found in infected people from Hong Kong and mainland China.
In addition, the experiments, which also involved experts from mainland medical and research institutions, found that when mice were infected with HIV before being treated, 42 per cent had an "undetectable level" of the virus for at least four weeks after one injection of antibodies... The tests found that the drug was effective against 124 strains of HIV, including those that are commonly found in infected people from Hong Kong and mainland China.
Rock Hudson. Oh, wait. Freddie Mecury. Oh, wait. You sister. Oh, wait. Donald J. Trump. This is waaay too late for far too many.
If you have to ask, the answer is always No.
Perhaps we should wait for a publication in a good science jounnal, not a press release to the local cal newspaper...
Finally banging hookers without rubber everyday came true...
stop fucking men up the ass.
But then conservative Republican politicians would have to go back to their wives!
And we can't have that.
That sounds like typical malaria prevention drugs: you take it before taking a trip likely to get you infested otherwise and it prevents an infection from taking hold.
In other words: the equivalent of malaria prevention when doing a sex vacation.
I'm not a puritan by any means but ugh.
They could test it on Tump, considering with how many he allegedly had some with, ...
5) We can see that with you.
was an insightful post until you resorted to needless rudeness
Most people with AIDS doesn't fuck men in the ass.
Even if this drug doesn't work in humans, HIV will eventually be eradicated with currently existing medicine. Once the medicine that HIV patients take becomes cheap enough to deploy around the world, by keeping their viral load levels to an undetectable level, they will no longer transmit the virus to other people even if they are having unprotected sex. If everyone in the world with HIV is medicated, they won't spread it to anybody and eventually the last remaining carriers of the virus will die from natural causes. Long-acting injections in the form of depo shots are already available for patients with poor drug compliance issues, too.
Unfortunately, due to corporate greed a lot of these medications still cost over $1000 per month and the day where everyone regardless of income or background gets access to HIV medication is probably hundreds of years away, unless something fundamentally changes on a global scale with regards to patents on life saving drugs. I worry that humanity's going to fuck itself over with disease the longer we allow intellectual property law to prevent life saving generics from being created and distributed. This is why drug patents and research paywalls need to be violated and broken at any cost for the greater good of human health.
Goldman-Sachs said it was more profitable to treat rather than cure so I think this will cost at least $10,000 a week because some life saving or life extending drugs are costing $500,000 a year!
1) Either physically impossible or theoretically possible but actually impossible. With our current knowledge that is.
2) ?
3) Nothing makes that impossible.
4) Nothing makes that impossible. Many types of cancer have >90% survivability with near 100% survivability when detected in early stages.
5) Genetically inferior?
So, Serge have you met any genetically inferior people? Black people or chinese people or maybe jews hmm?
3) Since arguably HIV doesn't have anything to do with AIDS...
Which nut-case website should I have been reading to learn the "truth", here, or is this just the standard "thing you always thought was true, isn't, and then it is, then it isn't again"?
5) We can see that with you.
was an insightful post until you resorted to needless rudeness
Not ‘needless’ at all because GP’s list contains an item that had already happened.
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So it looks like another of those scourges evangelicals claimed was a "curse from God" is about to bite the dust.
A cynic might suggest that the old Hairy Thunderer is losing his touch. Or maybe God just doesn't give a rat's ass who you sleep with.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
...a new strain of antibody resistant 'super AIDS' has been detected.
Most people with AIDS doesn't fuck men in the ass.
Look the reality is that every other species on the planet establishes a balance with its environment. Humans have no such concept of equilibrium. We spread out of control like a virus. AIDS is one of the few things actually keeping our numbers under control especially in places where women are uneducated and have tons of kids like most of Africa (the place with the very highest infection rate). Most first world nations have already achieved negative population growth, not counting immigration. This is simply reality.
Then I've got bad news for you. Getting fucked in the ass is part of that equation, so you'd still be screwed in the end.
5) Making people smart is not hard : three-course and four-course meals, every day, from early childhood, easy access to books and schooling, some toys and games of any kind, a bit of violence okay but not so much as to be disrupting
Avoid leaded water, radioactive waste, in utero alcohol syndrome, diets consisting of only corn or sugar, etc.
How ugly that it seems to pay to NOT cure something. Jonas Salk wasn't the greed-filled developer of his vaccine. He didn't develop it to reward stockholders. He did it to save lives and the fates of those infected with polio, a common disease of a couple generations ago.
So far, we don't know about the business model that might result, or even if the drug is effective and safe over the long term. So far, Truvada seems to be the best prophylactic out there, outside of abstinence. Abstinence is never going to work. The drug's vendor, Gilead, by keeping their prices at $1500+ a month for Truvada, has the blood on their hands of those that can't afford it, and get infected, and can't control it, and die hideous deaths.
---- Teach Peace. It's Cheaper Than War.
While some people are infected through needles and unprotected sex with others, the primary infection vector is still by far through unprotected anal sex. Drug addicts and women are merely collateral damage.
Of course, here in US we will not be able to get these pills, even if they were free, because then "pharma companies are not going to make any money".
Have you at least HEARD of Africa? It seems like we need to start there...
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Did you just assume their gender? CIS scum!
Because nobody will be able to afford it.
Ad hominem is almost always needless and rude even if it isn't used to attack someone credibility but is part of the conclusion and may be true. That GGP has it wrong in at least some places should be the conclusion of most people that have a little bit of historic knowledge. So it's needless to spell it out.
Just give it a few hundred years and someone will find a way to spread it from chimpanzees to humans again.
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Not sure why this is modded up insightful? I understand the poster you were replying to was being an ass and he was wrong with his claim that AIDS is just a gay problem, but you weren't exactly correct in your rebuttal either.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics...
Gay and bisexual men account for 70% of infections (73% if you include those who inject drugs). Granted, we don't know for certain which sexual activities these people engage in, so perhaps they aren't literally "fucking men in the ass", but it's a fairly safe bet.
If it could, then the title would end with a period, not a question mark.
Gay and bisexual men account for 70% of infections
That's in the US. The US makes up about 3% of the world's HIV cases.
actually speaking of genetically inferior people GP probably meant people from populations with generally lower IQ levels and contrary to beliefs of some there are populations like this. Whether these differences in IQ between populations are due to genetics is an open question still. From populations that you selected Jews and Chinese tend to have higher than average IQ levels. As for black people I do not know if there is a conclusive study as there are many different populations that have high pigmentation. Most likely the difference is due to culture and environment (hygiene and nutrition especially at young age tend to have massive impact on intellectual ability of humans) and some people prefer to spend time on drugs and other fun instead of learning.
Oh. I thought we were talking about the world. You know, with the development of the drug _not_ being done in the US, most humans _not_ living in the US, most HIV/AIDS patients _not_ being in the US. ...
Did you ever forget to take your medicine? Lots of people have.
Did you ever embark on a course of self-destruction? Lots of people have.
Did you ever prioritize someone else's health over your own? Lots of people have.
Did you ever run out of money and fail to purchase your pharmaceuticals? Lots of people have.
Did you ever "not want to hear" some bad news, and therefore avoided the issue entirely? Lots of people have.
It's far too early to proclaim that "HIV will eventually be eradicated with currently existing medicine." Our HIV treatments are maintenance-type treatments, not cures. We also have to contend with human nature. Only a tiny handful of diseases have been provably wiped out, and only a tiny handful more are even candidates for eradication. Meanwhile multiple diseases have come back from obscurity to become major hazards again.
If you have to ask, the answer is always No.
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