Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Where Is the Cure for HIV?

I was determined there was a cure out there. I finally read a book that suggested a treatment called Compound Q killed HIV. I remembered always seeing on the news how people were protesting and fighting for improvements in our health care. Trying to get funding for research for a cure. I was able to develop other side effects such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and lipodystrophy.
Where was the fight for the cure? We fought to lower the cost of the medication so the evil drug companies wouldn't become so rich. We fought to make sure people could have access to medications. Well if we won that battle why are the AIDS Drug Assistance Program rules so different from state to state?
The latest big fight is getting our drugs to third world countries. Let's get the drug companies more money. Don't these people just want a cure?
Now the drug manufacturers don't even bother making new drugs. Certainly prevention has helped. We have learned to tolerate the side effects. When do we start fighting for the cure again?
After all of this when do we start demanding a cure! When do we start protesting for a cure? When do we start saying to the pharmaceutical companies WE WANT A CURE? When do we start sending money to research for a cure? Don't give me more treatments and new side effects! I want a Cure and I want it now!

treatments do not eradicate HIV from host cells but rather inhibit virus replication and delay the onset of AIDS.
On infection, HIV spreads through the human body after the viral DNA is incorporated into the genome of host cells. Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART) works by blocking HIV replication at various steps but does not eliminate the infected cells.
Prof. Loyter contends that while HIV integrates its DNA into the human genome, it only inserts enough DNA to replicate yet avoids host genome instability leading to programmed death of the infected cells (apoptosis).

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