in eastern europe it's 85% drug addicts who test HIV+
in Africa it's 25% gay men or men who have sex with men who test HIV+
the other 75% is heterosexual men and women

It's bc we are brought up with the fear and it was real so its stuck on us. Now the problem is people do not get checked bc they are scared of it and those are the ones that die. If all god checked it would go away.

Most do not know how god the meds are these days it's amost a cure.

Good articel.

Why people say theres no money in a cure? They could charge $100,000 for a cure and millions of people will sell their house to buy for it.
Whoever comes out with the cure first will be the wealthiest entity in the history of earth.

And look at Gilead stock the past 5 years since creating Truvada
https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp...pi5FIKSiQLiuAE

Imagine the day, when there is a chance to cure this....this is so bad....

What I know is that the best way to get rid of this disease is to either protect yourself by using condom and the single most important--ABSTINENCE!

Buddhism.....

There is a new strain... Never before seen that just hit in NY. Just 1 case so far.

3 weeks from seroconversion to death. This virus isn't done adapting to all those wonderful new drug therapies.

Your post is a bit vague and scary. This new strain has been around a while now in Africa (google it up)

It's main aggression is that it develops on average into Aids in 5 years instead of 7 and has nothing to do with HIV medication.

This is the kind of irrational fearmongering I'm talking about.

Everyone of you reading this SHOULD be scared to death of the heart disease that you will die from because of our societies horribly unhealthy foods...or the car wreck that statistically will kill you a hundred thousand times more certainly.

The fact is that it isn't easy for a man to catch hiv from a woman. And if you do get hiv, the hiv meds will stop it from ever becoming aids and you will live a long and healthy life.

Cancer, heart disease, car wreck? Not so much.

I hate to bump an old thread however I have been doing some research here in Las Vegas for a colleague and have found the following regarding Truvada ( the once a day HIV prevention pill )

All prices are per month and current as of Jan 2014.

Walmart $1,360.37
Sams Club $1,360.37
CVS Pharmacy $1,610
Kmart $1,554
Publix $1,606
Kroger Pharmacy $1,737
Target $1,463
Safeway $1,713
Walgreens $1,554
Rite-Aid $1,664

Thank goodness for Obamacare! Insurance will cover it. :)

ROFL .. wouldn't that be nice!

Hah, I was kinda joking around. But here is an article written by a gay "bottom" who loves to have unprotected anal sex (receiving).
He didn't want to catch HIV, but hates the way condoms ruin sex.

So he went to the doctor. Got the prescription and guess what? His insurance covered it as a preventative!

Check it out, it's not a long read: http://www.frontiersla.com/mylifeonp...spx?ID=1797617

Here's another article saying that your insurance will cover it as a preventative:

http://positivelyaware.com/2013/13-0...for-prep.shtml

Google sure is handy.

Robbie, there is now a vaccine being put out by a medical school in Canada.
From the Med school at Western University. A vaccine against HIV

I can't remember if we covered it in this thread, but i thought since most people only read the last posts I would mention it again.

Here is the story on that vaccine:
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/09...n_3865059.html

It's not yet approved for use. But when it is...I would think that EVERYBODY would get it.

And then I suppose that the FCC and all the testing companies that make bank on "Testing" will start proclaiming that testing MUST continue because of people possibly having gonorrhea and syphilis.

I don't want to sound flippant...but okay. Maybe testing every 3 months or so for that. Most times gonorrhea will let you know within a few days if you have it (when you're pissing razor blades lol).

But this bullshit of testing every 14 days at $300 a freakin' test is something I hope to see ENDED when and if this vaccine comes out.
And as I said earlier...in the meantime, if I were a performer in that LA "talent pool"...I'd be taking PrEP medication now to make sure I didn't have to worry about it at all.

I did not know they had ever found a cure for any virus.

14k is chump change :2 cents: Probably not worth the paperwork

http://www.healthnewsreview.org/wp-c...ok%20cover.jpg

Some people are less than enthusiastic about pay-to-publish science journals such as PLoS:

I read this about the HIV breakthrough cited by the OP in the initial post of this thread:

Funny, that some of you are already proclaiming this a cure, because you read something you didn't understand on the internet. Gotta love the GFY scientists (almost as good as the GFY lawyers). Never let facts get in the way of a good rant or conspiracy theory. :1orglaugh

:stoned

ADG

This thread is about why is there not more focus and work going on around the existing strategies that seem to have potential to yield results.

Isn't Magic cured?

No, he takes the daily medication and it keeps it in check. (sort of like cancer in remission).

The medication keeps his viral load at zero. If he took an HIV test he would come back negative.
And he is living a healthy life and should have a full life span.

BUT...if he stopped taking the daily pill, the virus would return.

What I'm interested in is the daily pill to PREVENT you from catching HIV. And Phoenix brought up the newest vaccine that has been developed by scientists in Canada to PREVENT you from catching HIV.

ADG is posting...well, I'm not sure WHAT exactly he is going on about with pictures and his attacking other GFY'ers for no reason.

But that's what he does.

So to answer your question: Magic Johnson isn't technically "cured". But he also has no traces of HIV in his system.
I guess the definition of "cured" would be that you don't need the daily pill to keep the HIV from coming back.

I was being a little sarcastic about Magic and was pointing out that at the time if you had money you survived and if you didn't you where in trouble. I'm from Vancouver and I believe the concoction of pills used now by most to control the virus was figured out at our St.Paul's hospital. Could be wrong

From what I've read...it's no longer the cocktail of multiple pills. It's one pill. And insurance covers it. So you don't have to be rich to live anymore.

Not that I want to be sick...but if I had my choice I'd much rather have HIV and be able to take one pill a day and live a healthy life VS having a bad cancer, COPD, kidney disease, etc., etc.

I'm really interested in finding out what becomes of the preventative vaccine that Phoenix is discussing and I'm still bewildered why the one a day pill that prevents you from getting HIV in the first place isn't more widely publicized and why the FSC isn't at least talking about it and giving out the information (I guess there wouldn't be any money in the testing game if they did that)

yes but ins won't cover HGH unless you have HIV :2 cents:

Yeah those are some underpaid motherfuckers right there...

Insurance covering PrEP ( Truvada ) is a great thing! There are unfortunately some challenges in actually getting it prescribed due to concerns over efficacy.

1. Apparently, it did not do well in clinical trials with women. There is speculation that the vaginal environment is not ideal for this medication to work. Despite the challenges in clinical trials, the drug was still approved: Gilead Must Halt FDA Approval of Truvada as Women?s PrEP Study Fails


2. Because of these challenges within the clinical trials, doctors are not prescribing the medication as one might expect.

About 2000 prescriptions likely in 2013


2000 doesn't seem like a large number of prescriptions to me :Oh crap


I truly hope that the science continues to advance ... quickly and we develop not only a vaccine but a cure.

edit: Sorry, forgot the links.