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Report, edit, etc...Posted by JordanN_3335 on 2006-08-15 at 09:29:12
Well because of the aids conference might as well I add this topic. For those who don't know what A.I.D.S is, it is a world known diease of the H.I.V virus. A.I.D.S is very crippling and can do harms buy damaging the immune system leaving the body open and eventually lowers the life span to 2-10 years.

For more info on A.I.D.S check this.
Now the A.I.D.S conference. It happend this week talking about the issues of A.I.D.S once again. How it can ruin lives and loved ones. But some special people were there. Bill clinton and Mr. and Mrs. Gates. One of the richest people in the world. If your a apple user then he should be your enemy. So now Bill gates donatated 500million dollars (enough to buy every game system in the world) to help find a vaccine. Isn't that a relief but that will take time. For Bill Clinton he has some friends that can help out with the sitution. Right now these 2 men are trying to put an end to the once known disease that infected millions.

So what do you think. Will A.I.D.S be conqured and save humanity as we know it or will it still be a raging virus?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Vampire on 2006-08-15 at 10:12:49
The fastest way to cure AIDS is to infect all the world's scientists with HIV.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Demaris on 2006-08-15 at 10:54:22
1. Pacademic isn't a word.

2. AIDS isn't a virus, it's a symptom of HIV.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-08-15 at 14:38:37
When we will find a cure to HIV/AIDS it will mutate and we will have to start all over again.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Sie_Sayoka on 2006-08-15 at 14:59:25
Thier money should be spent trying to buy condoms so the rest of the world doesnt get infected. Even if they do find a cure it will probolly not be cost efficient and as jammed said it will probolly mutate.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-08-15 at 15:03:58
QUOTE(Sie_Sayoka @ Aug 15 2006, 09:59 PM)
Thier money should be spent trying to buy condoms so the rest of the world doesnt get infected.
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It will not stop people from being idiots.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-08-15 at 15:48:08
QUOTE(Demaris @ Aug 15 2006, 09:53 AM)
1. Pacademic isn't a word.

2. AIDS isn't a virus, it's a symptom of HIV.
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Also, forced castration.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Filleinconnue on 2006-08-16 at 00:10:40
HIV will be cured when Jesus Comes Back
HIV will be cured when Ozzy Osbourne sings, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" at Ozz Fest
HIV will be cured when Bin Laden puts a Target Sign on his Chest
HIV will be cured when 30,000 Japanese Scream out in tokyo, "WE'RE TWINKIES"
HIV will be cured when Spain rules Europe
HIV will be cured when Chips no longer exist
HIV will be cured when Coca Cola becomes a State
HIV will be cured when Cigarrettes are no longer Smoked
HIV will be cured when Houses are made from Jelly.

Well if all that stuff DOES happen, you can count on HIV going away for good!
Thats right, get your hopes up.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Urmom(U) on 2006-08-16 at 00:36:55
Seems like that 500 million dollar research fund will really help find a cure.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by MasterJohnny on 2006-08-16 at 05:08:39
how about stop all ways to contract hiv that would stop hiv...which means no more sex...and brestfeeding and no more needles!
Report, edit, etc...Posted by JordanN_3335 on 2006-08-16 at 08:53:53
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Seems like that 500 million dollar research fund will really help find a cure.
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dude there not looking for the cure right now there looking for a vaccine.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by StarKraft on 2006-08-16 at 11:00:48
Condoms can save you from alot of problems. Use them wisely biggrin.gif Don't have sex if your drunken and like wtf I don't need any protection.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Syphon on 2006-08-16 at 13:48:49
QUOTE(Mini_Goose_2707 @ Aug 16 2006, 07:53 AM)
dude there not looking for the cure right now there looking for a vaccine.
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Which isn't a cure? Of course.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mightybass101 on 2006-08-16 at 13:52:10
america will find a cure and sell it at wal mart
Report, edit, etc...Posted by TheDaddy0420 on 2006-08-16 at 16:33:04
I think you can never really cure the virus becuase it mutates so much. But I do think we can develop things to prevent it from getting in people.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Do-0dan on 2006-08-16 at 16:42:05
viruses can mutate?

instead of looking for a vaccine, i think they should quarantine every person on the planet with AIDS and reinact the holocaust
Report, edit, etc...Posted by SkiLLz on 2006-08-17 at 03:05:43
I noticed alot of people aren't taking this topic seriously ermm.gif .

But, I'm sure there's a way to cure it or make a vaccine. But some people mentioned it would probably mutate after we vaccine it. There is a good chance that that would happen all though my science teacher told my class, during a lesson about evolution, that the thing that's really changing and evolving in present day, just happen to be viruses. So that meens that there is a good chance that if we cure HIV/AIDS that mroe viruses will pop up. I think its great that Bill Gates donated all that money to the cause. But if viruses are indeed evolving like my science teacher said, it is possible that over time the virus might even be able to over come the vaccine... right?
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2006-08-17 at 03:44:56
I'd say the only people who would be happy to find a cure is for the rampant sex addicts, who will contract some other disease instead. [/jk]

The truth is, is that some people have the genetics to fight HIV by themselves. Although this is nice to know it doesn't really help out many people, the thing scientists will have to do is closly look at the HIV virus, mimic properties of the protiens located along the outer protien membrane and create a structure similar to it, administer it to white blood cells, and tada, you've cured one person.

Finding a vaccine wouldn't stop a pandemic, only if we were to give it to billions of people throughout the world, which nobody is generous enough to do. (Bill Gates spent 500 million, with an M, means he doesn't care enough tongue.gif )
Report, edit, etc...Posted by JordanN_3335 on 2006-08-17 at 09:01:25
For the last time there resherching a vaccine a cure will be nearly to impossible to find. Or it would be so much money we would be poor because A.I.D.S is such a hard sympton to control thus the only thing close enough to help is a vaccine.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Rantent on 2006-08-17 at 20:51:28
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For the last time there resherching a vaccine a cure will be nearly to impossible to find.
A "Cure" in the terms of killing the virus after a person is infected would be impossible to make. As a virus infects you by entering your cells (or injecting them with genetic code) and so the "cure" in that sense would have to kill your own tissue, which wouldn't help at all. "Cure" in terms of virus defense, means vaccine, as it stops the problem from happening.

A "cure" of the sort you are talking about would only be possible if it was microspcopic robots or something that would recognize viruses that our body does not and destroys them, targeting infected cells. We are quite a ways from even developing something like that.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by luisv on 2006-08-17 at 21:09:10
If people reduced acting on their "urges" like wild animals then perhaps it would be slightly reduced. Also, people who infect others without telling them should be jailed. Lastly, testing for all major STD's should be free and encouraged. Education and acting more decent will result in a win against AIDS.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Wilhelm on 2006-08-17 at 23:34:52
The problem isn't particularly in countries like the US or the UK, but developing countries where a majority of people are uneducated, too poor for protection, or view the use of condoms with disfavor.

Instead of wasting time, money, and manpower on a cure that most likely isn't going to do much good anyways, that money should be used to educate people in impoverished nations about the importance of protection and on how to identify the symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases.

You middle-middle-classers and your ignorance.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Felagund on 2006-08-18 at 14:07:09
Short term we should focus on the prevention of spreading AIDS, and long term we should most assuredly focus on the eradication of the disease.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by CAFG4reals on 2006-08-24 at 11:35:31
I hear alot of talk about how we cant beat it because it mutates. This is true. I wouldn't say it mutates more than any other virus, but its dam close. But what is unique about the aids virus is that the underbelly and the injecting part of the virus never mutates..ever. This was discovered a few years back, before it was just assumed that the whole thing mutated. There approach at curing it is devolping antibodys that pick up on this constant, and dont discriminate against the rest of the virus. Thats where ur money is specifically going.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by HolySin on 2006-08-27 at 03:07:18
Interesting...
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