HIV/AIDS breakthrough!

[nick1985]

Africa is such a fucked up country.

:awe:

 

[Blackjack200]

For a great many who are on the cocktail the side effects include:

Lipodystrophy
Lipoatrophy
Peripheral neuropathy
Osteoporosis
Astronomical lipid counts and the heart disease that goes along with it.
Severe psychological side effects the least of which are terrible nightmares and extreme iritability.
Liver failure.
Kidney failure.
Extreme and deadly skin reactions.

The list could go on for another couple dozen things, but I think you get the point.

You see, most of the drugs destroy mitochondrial DNA.

Also, many have drug resistent virus and do not respond at all.

In short, while they have come a long way "a normal healthy life" is in NO way assured by the drugs.

Again, my use of the terms "normal" and "healthy" were regrettable, but my point is that we have made substantial progress.

 

[ichy]

He is not their president

Jacob Zuma most certainly is the president of South Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma

 

[nick1985]

Jacob Zuma most certainly is the president of South Africa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Zuma

He is now apparently. The BBC link was a little old and he was not the president then. I guess everybody is right

 

[lothar]

He is not their president

Have you been living under a rock?

 

[nick1985]

Have you been living under a rock?

Read the post right above yours. In the article that was linked, it was stated he was NOT their president. Article is a few years old, he has since become president.

Yeah...I didnt know the president of an African nation, must mean I live under a rock.

/eyeroll

 

[Ozoned]

There's no money in a cure.

This would be a real topic for real health care reform.

 

[Bitek]

Drug companies need to stop researching and just make cheap drugs. That way we can lower the costs of health care and it has the positive effect of removing the sickest from our population.

Health care reform you can believe in.

It's what's asked for, and that's what people just may get.

What a silly post. Really? R&D is a waste of time, just "make" drugs? Anymore wishes left in that genie lamp? Or maybe just Santa delivers new ones every Christmas?

If you want cheap drugs, buy generics. They are the old drugs that the majors developed and produced at great expense. If you want cheaper drugs, write to the FDA and tell them you don't need them to be proven safe and effective, and you will never sue if one turns out to have rare side effects that f you up and kill you.

 

[lothar]

What a silly post. Really? R&D is a waste of time, just "make" drugs? Anymore wishes left in that genie lamp? Or maybe just Santa delivers new ones every Christmas?

If you want cheap drugs, buy generics. They are the old drugs that the majors developed and produced at great expense. If you want cheaper drugs, write to the FDA and tell them you don't need them to be proven safe and effective, and you will never sue if one turns out to have rare side effects that f you up and kill you.

You fail at detecting sacarsm.

 

[Bitek]

You fail at detecting sacarsm.

lol. Needs to be way more over the top to begin to qualify as meaningful sarcasm in this forum. As far as P&N goes, that's a fairly moderate and well reasoned opinion.

Beating old people to death with their own canes to save medicare costs so the Useful Producers can enjoy a tax cut may actually be one of Spidey's deficit reduction plans. Fails for everyone.