Do you think there is a cure for AIDS?
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I saw on PBS on night a special on the plaques in England and some people carried genes to help prevent the disease and now they're saying people with those genes that survived the bubonic plaque can't get AIDS. This is because AIDS and the bubonic plaque attack the same way and the gene makes it so the disease can't enter the systems and ends up attacking it's self. Not sure if that was helpful or not. But i'm sure they could do something with the knoweledge.
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Unfortunately you CANNOT cure HIV, however you CAN suppress it from becoming full-blown AIDS indefinately.  \nThe only way to do this is by going to the doctor often, getting the right antiviral meds (VERY expensive), the proper vaccines against other infections, and avoiding high risk for infection - avoid sick people, wash hands often, avoid hospitals if possible, cook food thoroughly, take care of yourself physically.\n\n"Surviving HIV requires a substantial amount of social support, education, and hope.  Quality medical care is essential from experienced HIV specialists as is a person's will to live, and willingness to become their own best advocate.  This often means that the person living with HIV/AIDS must learn or be able to work with his medical providers as a partner, doing his or her part to take the medications as prescribed, reduce the possibility of becoming re-infected with more HIV, but also to ask questions, and report any problems with taking medications and/or side effects." - http://www.guardianhealth.org/hiv.htm\n\nI'm betting Magic is taking all precautions to follow all these measures.  However, he is just as susceptible as anyone else to problems.  He would not be the first person to beat the odds, and some of those that have are regular, everyday people.
1177383
Ya, just signed up.\n\nI believe we can cure!!
249863
HIV IS A REALATIVELY NEW DISEASE. I THINK THAT OUR SCIENTISTS AND MEDICAL PROFFESIONALS ARE DOING WHAT THEY CAN TO TRY AND COME UP WITH A SOLUTION THAT CAN HELP COMBAT HIV. WHAT WE NEED TO REALIZE IS THAT THIS WILL TAKE TIME AND MONEY BEFORE A TRULY EFFECTIVE MEDICINE WILL BE MARKETED. GIVE THEM TIME.
545874
No.  The AIDS virus is too fragile.
44728
First let me answer the question why its so hard to find a cure for aids. AIDS constatnly mutates.  Because of the mutations its hard to eradicate.  However, I think there is hope for this and many other disease.  That hope is nano-technology.  This is the use of technology so small it can only be seen with a micorscope.
779192
Unfortunately, there is currently no cure for AIDS.
969514
get rid of aids? you can't get rid of aids. They are searching for a cure, but one has not been found yet.
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Myth & Reality of HIV AIDS (Myth is nothing but perception)\n\nMYTH: HIV or AIDS can be cured.\n\nREALITY: To date, there is no cure for HIV or AIDS and there are no vaccines to prevent HIV infection.\n\nMYTH: HIV/AIDS is a gay disease.\n\nREALITY: Anyone is susceptible to HIV/AIDS, regardless of their sexual orientation. Everyone is potentially at risk of getting HIV if they share needles or practice unsafe sex. Worldwide, HIV is spread most often through heterosexual contact.\n\nMYTH: You can get HIV from breathing the air around an HIV-infected person or from hugging or holding hands with an HIV-infected person.\n\nREALITY: HIV cannot be transmitted through:\n• toilet seats or door-knob handles\n• touching, hugging, holding hands, or cheek kissing with an HIV-infected person.\n• sharing eating utensils with an HIV-infected person.\n• mosquito bites.\nHIV is transmitted through contact with an HIV-positive person’s infected body fluids, such as semen, pre-ejaculate fluid, vaginal fluids, blood, or breast milk. HIV can also be transmitted through needles used for injecting drugs, tattooing or body piercing.\n\nMYTH: I can get HIV by sharing exercise equipment or playing sports with an HIV-positive person.\n\nREALITY: Contact with sweat or tears has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV.\n\nMYTH: You can get HIV by kissing an HIV-infected person.\n\nREALITY: Casual contact through closed-mouth or “social” kissing is not a risk for transmission of HIV. There is a theoretical potential for contact with blood during “French” kissing or open-mouthed kissing, but no cases have been attributed to any kind of kissing.\n\nMYTH: You cannot get HIV if you are using birth control methods like diaphragms, cervical caps, sponges, spermicides, DepoProvera, Norplant, or the Pill.\n\nREALITY: These birth control methods do not prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as HIV. They only aim to prevent pregnancy. The surest way to prevent both pregnancy and an STD infections is through abstinence. One way people who are sexually active may prevent pregnancy and STD infection is to use a condom in combination with another form of birth control, such as a diaphragm, cervical cap, sponge, spermicide, DepoProvera, Norplant, or the Pill. Birth control products containing the spermicide nonoxynol-9 (found in most contraceptive creams, gels, suppositories, foams, films and sponges) help to prevent pregnancy but may increase the risk of HIV.\n\nMYTH: I can’t have more than one sexually transmitted disease (STD) at a time.\n\nREALITY: A person can be infected with more than one STD. A person with an untreated STD may also be 6-10 times more likely to pass on or acquire HIV during sex. Risk for infection increases 10 to 300-fold in the presence of a genital ulcer, such as occurs in syphilis or genital herpes.\n\nMYTH: There is so such thing as safer sex.\n\nREALITY: Safer sex is sexual activity without penetration, or sex with a latex condom or a latex barrier (in the case of oral sex). Although safer sex can substantially reduce the sexual transmission of an STD like HIV, sexual abstinence is the surest way to prevent the sexual transmission of an STD, including HIV.\n\nMYTH: Since I only have oral sex, I’m not at risk for HIV/AIDS.\n\nREALITY: While oral sex is of lower risk than other forms of sex, you can get HIV by having oral sex with a man or a woman. It is important to use a latex barrier during oral, vaginal, or anal sex.\n\nMYTH: I would know if a loved one or I had HIV.\n\nREALITY: A person with HIV may not show any symptoms for many years. Since HIV affects each person differently, many people with HIV can look and feel healthy for years. The only sure way to know is to get tested.\n\nMYTH: Getting tested for HIV is pointless.\n\nREALITY: Knowing if you are HIV-positive will allow you to seek early treatment that can help you stay healthy longer and enable you not to pass on the vir
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As a virus cant be treated with antibiotics I would guess it would win. HIV seems to be winning anyway.
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No! No one is immune to HIV or Aids...\n\nWhy? Because the viruses change often (there is a high level of mutation). It's the same reason why they can't find a cure...It doesn't stay the same long enough for them to specifically target it....
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It depends which STD you're talking about. So far no one has found a cure for AIDS. Medications for syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia and herpes are available with a doctor's prescription. I think you've been watching some pretty slanted reports designed to scare the populace and make them madder at the pharmaceutical companies than they already are.
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I'm sorry to say, no there is no cure for it.  There is a lot of research, but no cure yet.  They are coming out with medications that can help.
545958
Yes. A new approach to fighting the virus by stopping it from infecting cells. The medical professionals call the new drugs entry inhibitors. I call it slowing the immune response. It can be done with peppermint oil lozenges. This could help third world countries. Perhaps the caring medical professionals would like to do a study to prove it can work against HIV.\n Ask any medical professional you know if they would like to help in the study.
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No disease is accepted by anyone if their is a cure available.but the irony about AIDS is that Its not curable but completely preventable...thats why the interventions are targeted to youth to make them acknowledged so that they can prevent it..
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You can get rid of AIDS.  But you can't get rid of HIV. Thousands of people get better and stay in a T-cell count over 200 and don't suffer from two opportunistic disease.  How can you do this?  Luck to start (wouldn't rely on it, and following you doctors advice.  There are many anti-viral medications that keep the symptoms and disease at bay.  I have listed two site that talk about aids and two basic sites that has resources for you to better understand the disease and to get the resources you may need as well such as people to talk to and people that can help.
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Depends on what you mean by "beating" HIV or cancer. Survival past 5 years? At present there is NO cure for HIV/AIDS. Cancer is not one disease process. If you mean survival, in the United States, because of our healthcare structure (or even places like sub-saharan Africa) money unfortunately is a factor. Anti-viral medications are expensive, as are prolonged hospital stays, and these have been known to be a burden on personal finances, even with health insurance. \n\nIn poorer parts of the world, if you cannot afford medication or doctors fees, you don't get it. Period. I think this is more of an access to healthcare answer.