whyhaven't they found any cure yet for aids??sometimes i think they don't  want to because of popul.increase
339541
thats not true- if u study the virus, you will relaise its not easy to cre it because of its mode of spread, and mode of infection- but theres somethign called malthucian theory- when the population grows to very large numbers, nature finds its own way of controlling it by means of natural disasters and diseases.
11052
i do not think he had it to begin with. i think they had just messed up on the test or something. or maybe he has something in his body to make the test positive. no one can escape the aids virus once they have it, unless it is just a miracle from GOD
900797
sorry but there is no cure for aids or hiv
1178526
technically speaking if the government can put money into research i am fairly certain a cure could be around the corner several woman from the ivory coast have become immune to the disease as well as i personally know one woman who's husband was infected she tried for years and never contracted AIDS i know it seems weird but she loved him very much and wanted to die with him ......they are still alive and kicking both of them she is AIDS and HIV free i would think they should study these people who have these natural immunities to see what is so different about them and develop a cure if me an average Jane knows about this i am sure scientists do as well and are working on it
439596
No! Where have you been for the past 25 years? HIV is a virus; you cannot cure a virus. There are treatments that can prolong your life if you are infected, but they don't always work for everyone. If you become infected, it is very unlikely that you will live out your normal lifespan, even if you have the drugs. And the drugs are too expensive for most people in the poorest countries where they have the highest rates of infection. There is no "cure" for AIDS!!!
1042419
Why? There are a lot of Americans who already have HIV/AIDS. Lets screen them first...
151773
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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There is NOT YET "cure" for AIDS.  There are several approved drug treatments that seem to slow the growth of the HIV viruses (which causes AIDS), and seem to slow the progress of the AIDS disease.\nSo far, these are imperfect for several reasons; they don't work for everyone, they have serious side effects, and the virus is "learning" to overcome these drugs.\nCancer is actually many different diseases, with many different causes, affecting many different parts of the body, and with many different outcomes.  There are cures for a few types of cancer; effective treatments for many others; but there are still some types that we don't\nhave effective weapons to use against.  \n\nWell.. But i believe it is on progress. see the links below. \n\nit's happened a long time ago... when people didn't believe about long distance communication [telegraph, phone, radio], or a box which could show some pictures [tv].
988460
Have you ever watched a loved one wither away in their hospital bed from a common cold because the AIDS virus made their immune system so weak? If not, you should be grateful. I watched my uncle sit there and wither away to skin and bones because of AIDS. Please educate yourself more on this subject and be more respectful about it.
872033
never underestimate the stupidity of large groups of determined people.  All over Africa, the governments have been trying to educate their citizens about HIV.  And for the most part, they are literally laughed at.  In a majority of those nations, women do not have the right to say no to a man, much less demand he use a condom.  And the men simply refuse to believe that they must at the very least practise safe sex, or abstinence...they do not believe they can sicken and die until it actually happens, and sometimes even then, they do not believe that it was having sex that gave them the disease.  Frankly, I think HIV is turning out to be an excellent way of cleaning out the gene pool.
479157
Funds continue to go up. It is a shame there hasn't been a cure so far.
592511
The biggest reason why a cure or vaccination are very far off are because HIV is a virus. There are no cures for the simple cold or flu virus, because viruses are very clever in that they constantly mutate and change so it is very difficult to come up with what Paul Elhrich would term "magic bullets" -ie a drug that would effectively deal with the virus, and not damage any other of the body's organisms. So basically if a thing keeps changing it is very difficlut to come up with something that will deal with it in its current state and any other future developments.
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AIDS has already had some attention that lead to the development of some fairly effective anti-viral medications, but work needs to be done to make the medicine more affordable (PBS story on AIDS anti-viral medication, June 2006).\n\nCancer is problematic because work really needs to be done to identify different forms.  It seems to me very likely that different strains exist, depending on the cause (radiation, smoke inhalation, etc).\n\nObesity is a serious problem that may be a result of malfunctioning hormonal activity (gremyl?) that commands hunger activities.\n\nWeaponized smallpox is currently the greatest threat to human survival.  An appropriate response needs to be formulated to save more than 10% of the world population if some fool decides to release it.\n\nOn a personal level, asthma makes going to bars around here torture.  Smoke is hell.  Without the asthma, I could have enjoyed myself.  By the time that gets fixed I'll probably be too old to enjoy it.
440727
The problem in the third world countries is not money to be solved by these aids. The problem is corruption, ignorance and social underdevelopment. People there should wake up, thats their only way.
581589
Africans beleive that they will be cured of aids if they have sex with a newborn.  Because of this, there is a lot of child rapes and also a very high precentage of aids in children.  In some african countries, aids has devastated the area so bad that the average person is only 16 years old.\n\nThe olny reason they are still there is because the average 12 year old girl will have an average of 9 babies before she dies.
14467
I don't have AIDS or HIV, so I really couldn't tell you. The friends that I have had with the disease did act differently, they acted sad, mad, confused, and sick. Then they died.\n\nPeople live longer now with HIV/AIDS, so I would guess they have longer to adjust to it and maybe even come to terms and act "normal" again. Hopefully they don't share blood with others anymore. I can hope.
419405
I know that in 1984 AIDS still wasn't something the general public was aware of because I had to have a surgery and the only reason my mom knew to ask for the blood to be tested was because of a chance encounter with a woman at the mall who knew about AIDS.  \n\nWhen they first discovered it, I don't know.  I would guess that they probably started noticing simularites between people's symptoms during the late 70s or so then started doing testing which usually takes a while and it became known as AIDS in the medical community by the late70s or early80s.  You could probably google it.  \n\nI did know someone (my dad's friend) that was diagnosed, he died about 5 years ago.  Treatment methods to keep HIV from progressing to full blown AIDS have improved substantially since then, but it's still debilitating and incurable.