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Pharma manufacturer Gilead making available at cost (2 million doses in most needed countries) while generics are developed and can later be distributed. Decent play from a Pharma company.
Wow! AIDS was a death sentence when I was young, no chance of survival.
It still is bad. This is a prevention vaccine not a cure vaccine.
True, although the treatment also got a long way with people living hood lifes for many decades after initial diagnosis now. Also I heard they had some success actually curing HIV in a lab environment using some kind of modified retrovirus. That will most like still take till the 30’s before it becomes available though.
Uh, a vaccine is a preventative, not a cure. That idea is contained in the definition of “vaccine”.
Sometimes “passive vaccine” is used to describe an injection of antibodies to directly fight an ongoing disease.
i read the article and they also mentioned that they already got it approved for patients already infected with HIV back in 2022. idk about its effectiveness though
They said 99%. Do if you have sex with 100 randos you can still get infected.
actually if you have sex with 100 randos, with this medicine, the chance of getting infected is only about 63%, or
1 - exp(100*-0.01)… even less if you also use a condom.
The numbers are more complicated then that. PIV sex you are less likely to transfer HIV then anal. Which is why gay men are effected by the disease more.
I’ve had sex with 50 randos, no AIDS. Just not my time?
It depends on what percentage of the population has HIV or aids in your community. It usually isn’t that high, depending on where you are. Even if some of them had HIV / aids and you were completely unprotected, the risk of getting the disease isn’t 100%.
its been survival with proper treatment, no longer getting AIDS. of course there are people that still engage in risky behavior, and 1 person made news with untreated HIV a tapeworm gave him cancer, the tapeworm got cancer and gave the guy with hiv tapeworm cancer, which is unheard of.
Go look up side effects of medications. Even if controlled, your kidneys and liver are in for a bad time.
you could just link to the side effects?
That depends on the medication in question.
oh so you’re just… blanket stating that medications are bad for your kidneys and liver?
Or, perhaps, I take these and am repeating what my doctor says? Why are you being hostile? Yes these save lives but they are not perfect. I experienced such severe abdominal swelling that it caused me a hernia that required surgery. You read that correctly: HIV medication cause me a hernia severe enough to require surgery. Now is there some other part of my life that I should expose to you so that you can judge me across the internet?