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-little-dorrit- t1_jbtk4ej wrote

Your comment is making an erroneous assumption that all viruses are treated equally, when this couldn’t be further from the truth.

People are working hard on the finding a vaccine or other treatments for the HIV virus (and don’t forget we already have antiretrovirals and PrEP), and we are getting closer every day to a vaccine. There are many other diseases that are epidemic-scale that also do not yet have a cure (Alzheimer’s for example). HIV is an incredibly complex virus. Only ten years ago a friend of mine who is a biologist working in virology told me that a cure is impossible because of how it works, how it invades immune cells, how it mutates and how it can evade detection and lie dormant in ‘sleeper’ immune cells. However attitudes and forecasts have changed because biotech has come so far. Now the general feeling is that we will crack it, sooner or later.

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bettinafairchild t1_jbt99v0 wrote

HIV used to 100% be a death sentence. But within 15 years of its discovery, a drug cocktail was discovered that keep almost 100% of HIV patients alive so they’ll die of something else at an old age. They have PReP, to prevent transmission. They’re currently testing an HIV vaccine. Miracles all. From 100% fatal to almost 0% fatal to vaccine.

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Good_nuff t1_jbszz6k wrote

Because ‘small, innocent children’ become victims of smallpox, polio, and cholera.

Only ‘sinful, disgusting, adult gays’ fall victim to HIV (this is not true obviously, but bigots gonna bigot)

Of all the adults that wrote those letters to the White House, how many of them would have been perfectly fine with a couple gay dudes moving in next door?

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