I keep hearing various stories that the National Government is trying to close the issue or that the virus keeps changing itself. What is your speculation on this?
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I think they probably have found the cure for HIV/AIDS and probably cancer. But the pharmacuetical companies and their lobbists will never allow the public to know. Money is always the bottom line.
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i agree with field they prob have it already but u know how the goverment is............ohh shit better not say that......
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No. They haven't found the cure for the common cold yet, and both are viruses. It's very difficult to find a cure for something you can't see, and the last I heard there was still no instrument that would allow them to see the HIV virus itself.
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The first 2 answers are not considering the *tremendous* profit that will go to the company who discovers a cure or vaccine for this disease. That company would likely be *instantly* the most desirable investment of any pharmaceutical company, and the profits generated by the *worldwide* purchase of this cure or vaccine would be *enormous*. Rest assured, these companies would like *nothing* better than to develop (and own the rights of) the cure for the world's most prevalent deadly disease. That being said, Bush annually *increases* the budgeted amount for AIDS relief. He is by *no means* trying to "close the issue" and, in fact, the issue *cannot* be closed until the problem is eradicated or, at *least*, removed through general inoculation. In other words, the problem is going to *continue* getting worse until someone finds a way to make it get better. Also pertinent is HAART, the therapy currently used to treat HIV victims. This treatment *greatly* extends the time that it takes for victims to develop AIDS (and, therefore, extends their life by the same amount), but in *no way* reduces the contagious nature of HIV. Thus, our scientist's efforts so far have actually *exacerbated* the situation by permitting an infected individual more time to infect others (literally *years*) without showing outward symptoms during that "extra time". Although it would clearly be wrong to *withhold* life-extending medication from HIV victims, it *has* resulted in a rise in new infection rates. The virus *does* appear to be very "adaptive", but the changes, if I understand correctly, are *not* on the same order as flu and cold viruses (which mutate regularly). In other words, there really are only 2 types of HIV virus worldwide, and an *effective* cure or vaccine against a strain *would* work effectively. The problem is developing an effective cure of vaccine which the virus is not able to "work around". So far (again, if I understand correctly), it is not that HIV is mutating into additional strains that is causing the problem, but rather that it simply acts (and reacts) in a manner that has "beaten" the efforts of scientists to find a mechanism to halt it. To use an analogy, HIV has a number of "holes" which it can use to attack, and scientists have not figured out how to plug them all yet. When they plug one, they see that HIV is using another. (Source: working on a term paper on HIV prevention strategies for college graduation. In fact, I should be working on that right now...) Jim, http://www.jimpettis.com/wheel/
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some say this is God disease on man for the wrong thy do.
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The best cure is to teach our children, that not everyone is doing what is portrayed on tv, teenagers feel pressure all around them, it in movies, television, and they think that is is okay, if they were in church and learned moral values of a family and not of what tv teaches them, but rather God, aids wouldn't be as much of a problem as it is today, we let the media babysit our children, because it is easy, we need to talk when they don't want to, we need to turn the tv set off, we need to be responsible.
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The virus does mutate with in the body so it's constantly changing. This is one of the problems in finding a vaccine or a cure. Look how long it has been with cancer, and this disease is just as complex.
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Medically- speaking, AIDs is incurable, but I have good news....just over the weekend, we had a pastor over at our church seminar who testified that 11 ex-drug addicts in his church's drug rehabilitation centers have been healed of AIDs by the Lord Jesus Christ! This was confirmed by medical reports where doctors could not trace any HIV viruses in their bodies - previously, they were all dying of AIDs when they were admitted to the rehab centers.! Jesus still saves! Jesus still heals! By His stripes we are healed!
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