Will you see the cure of HIV/Aids in your lifetime ?

**MAJOR METAL** · #1 08-07-2008, 03:40 PM

gold_member_321 · #2 08-07-2008, 03:44 PM

The cure is as old as time but is harder than anything to achieve.

Abstinence.

As far as a medical cure, probably not.

In any case...I'm horribly doomed.

Relic · #3 08-07-2008, 03:45 PM

No, sadly I think that the Pharma's are too happy with the money they make from it now.
I think what we'll see if nothing more, are more effective meds that will keep it at bay but not cure it.

MyUsernameHere · #4 08-07-2008, 04:31 PM

I think that within 50 years, those of us who are rich enough will be able to buy some sort of genetic recombination therapy that will extend our lives indefinitely. For those people, I think they'll see a cure sometime around the year 2500. By then, the poor will have died out at a rate great enough for everyone who's left to be considered "special" enough to warrant the drug companies releasing the cure from under lock and key.

Well, that or the poor will have been altered themselves and turned into a virtual slave race who's only purpose is the perpetuation of the economic/political system. After all, they'll still need ditch diggers and AIDS will constitute an unneeded additional cost for qualified worker replacement/training and needed landfill space for the corpses...that is unless we can convert their bodies into some sort of useful bio-fuel or processed animal feed.

For the rest of us, I don't know. Chances are, if we're still alive in 50 years we'll have been eaten by the inevitable zombie-like hoards that arise from the first failed attempts at genetic manipulation.

Bad Brains · #5 08-07-2008, 04:34 PM

There already is a cure, as long as you have money.

Isn't Magic Johnson said to be nearly free of the virus now?

CapnSev · #6 08-07-2008, 04:34 PM

I'll be optimistic and say yes. They've cured a lot of things in my short life span, and I think this will be taken care of eventually.

There's a lot of money in it for the person that finds the cure.

steve66 · #7 08-07-2008, 04:44 PM

I voted No, Unfortunately, there is no money in a cure

FL Knifemaker · #8 08-07-2008, 04:48 PM

I have the cure for HIV. I'm almost 50 and it's worked great so far. I'm more interested in a cure for cancer.

Scarlet Fire · #9 08-07-2008, 04:49 PM

There is actually some very promising new research going on in that field right now. I think it's very possible that we could see a cure within 20 years.

thesteve · #10 08-07-2008, 04:51 PM

I voted no, not because of some government/pharmaceutical conspiracy to maximize profits by prolonging the existence of AIDS, but because retroviruses, especially ones that mutate as quickly as HIV as simply very difficult to cure. Even if a cure for a single strain of HIV is discovered, will it work on all of the other mutations?

I do genuinely hope I'm wrong though, I know a lot of money is being poured into finding a solution.

AlphaMale · #11 08-07-2008, 06:41 PM

It might be made, but I don't think I'll see it.

AlphaMale · #12 08-07-2008, 10:22 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7541735.stm

GeneralElectric · #13 08-07-2008, 10:34 PM

It already exists, and has for some time.

Got bags of cash handy for when you get the dick o death?

MakiSupaStar · #14 08-07-2008, 10:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Relic

No, sadly I think that the Pharma's are too happy with the money they make from it now.
I think what we'll see if nothing more, are more effective meds that will keep it at bay but not cure it.

+1. If there was a cure the cynical side of me says that it will be buried, and then pharms will release hundreds of stepping stone drugs on the way to a cure, so that each patent will make them billions along the way.

GeneralElectric · #15 08-07-2008, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MakiSupaStar

+1. If there was a cure the cynical side of me says that it will be buried, and then pharms will release hundreds of stepping stone drugs on the way to a cure, so that each patent will make them billions along the way.

Thats already how it is.

Way Off Bass · #16 08-08-2008, 12:27 AM

actually what makes the HIV virus so deadly is that our somewhat simple immune system can't read the genetic material in the virus well enough to distinguish an HIV infected cell from a normal one (or even HIV from other viruses). Also the genetic mutation rate is fast enough that even if your immune system did learn to defend itself against it, the virus would have different iterations soon after.

however, to be the HIV virus, it always has to keep some common genetic material. This is the newly-discovered Achilles' heel. By using other viruses, and inserting this common genetic material into the capsid (the locale of the viral dna) the newly made virus will "infect" our system with an easily recognizable chain of HIV genes, and our immune system can fight it

I CANT FIND A LINK (so I'm lying) but this is actually moving into human trial phases soon

doctorjazz · #17 08-08-2008, 12:50 AM

Pharmaceutical companies will never get tired of getting rich off treating AIDS, and stupid people will never get tired of having unprotected casual sex. My forecast is cloudy with a chance of nope.

AlphaMale · #18 08-08-2008, 02:07 AM

The cure for aids:
Buying a chain of theaters.

Muusers · #19 08-08-2008, 05:07 AM

hmm...last time i checked hiv was a virus. and from the few biology lessons i did have, i remember something along the lines that virusses haven't gotten a permanent cure...

buzzbass · #20 08-08-2008, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Relic

No, sadly I think that the Pharma's are too happy with the money they make from it now.
I think what we'll see if nothing more, are more effective meds that will keep it at bay but not cure it.

you're probably right. I also think that's why we don't have a cure for cancer already either.