The cure for HIV
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ackeem1992
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nicekabuto
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yay for this! what a breakthrough. thing is, i know ppl are down about the side-effects, expense and profitability of the thing but let's just for a second enjoy the fact that for the first time a human being has been cured of HIV. that's crazy cool!!
1st. It's very expensive
There are 3000 millionaires in the United States, and like the total is 300 million. Insurance will cover some of it's cost, but still you have to put down $100k or more, which is a lot for the average people. Personally, I don't think this has encouraged unprotected BamBam, but has gave a way for that 3000 to be cured, and who's able to pay an insurance and that other what's not being pay for by them.
2nd. It's dangerous
I read that there's an %49.1 chance that you won't make it, as it's either you won't find a donor or your system rejects it, or simply the virus comes back.
Still no one has answered or related to my question as in a manner of curing HIV, as they can elliminate HIV with a simple bone stransplant, or this bone marrow has to come from this 1% of the caucasians who's immune to small pox.
Just a little fyi, pills don't count as protection in any context... They just cause a woman's body to think it is pregnant in an attempt to reduce hormone levels to the point that a viable pregnancy isn't possible. They don't protect against anything.
Escorpiius
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I don't think, it will be that dramatic though. People still should realize that even if this method is advanced by genetic engineering or by what it's still is in the report (transplant), this will still be millions costing operation. Why risking to be infected by the worst ever virus of the century whose cure is worth of millions while condoms are freely distributed.
I'll agree that some idiots will get this feeling (some are having it despite the risks) but I don't think that all these years of the sensitizing program for safe-*** will be futile just because of this.
Anyways, it's really good news though I'm skeptical. First, it's a bone-marrow transplant (initially used to cure his leukemia). Also, it's that of a person who's immune to that disease. Now, even if with genetic advancements, they arrive to take that transplant cure to genes, it will still be really costly and like they said, will not really be able to administer all of this to these people. Moreover, transplant operations of bone-marrow is really risky. Even for curing of leukemia, it's failure-rate is quite high (just got a friend who died 2 weeks ago due to advanced leukemia and with 2 tries for transplant operations failure), so this feat might also be a fluke. Needs more information on this to get real hopes though it's a good beginning after all these years of ravage.
