HIV Cure

[Altivo]

not sure how true is this... but if it's for real

 

the question is.. if it's real, how likely will poor countries has 'access' to it or will it just be another cure for the rich farts.

 

http://ibnlive.com/news/indian-doc-develop...v/48654-17.html

 

Bangalore: Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.

 

Indrani and a team of scientists have developed an enzyme called Tre. Tre is a custom enzyme capable of detecting, recognising and destroying HIV, much like a pair of molecular scissors.

 

"In laymans terms, it's an engineered enzyme which recognises sequences in the HIV genome that is duplicated, integrated virus and by the process of recombination, it cuts out the virus from the genome," says she.

 

The biggest challenge with treating HIV today is that the virus becomes dormant and often develops resistance to HIV drugs.

 

The only way then to cure HIV is to get rid of the virus completely and Tre, the enzyme that Indrani constructed after a year and its 126 "cycles of mutation" totally deplete HIV in the human genome in three months in laboratory conditions.

 

"It's a beautiful approach, but like any other drug, this one too will take a few years to reach clinics

Edited September 25, 2007 by Altivo

[Porker]

It will just be a cure for the rich because the giant pharmaceuticals will buy over the patent and rights to produce.

 

But we have china and india to thank for! Thank goodness for bootleg copies

[Xefera]

not too sure if its a good thing at all. right now, the fear of AIDS is one main factor that deters people from having multiple sexual partners.

 

this only gives the promiscous another excuse to flirt around.

[Altivo]

haha.. that's when Mr Durex comes in... wanna fark around... must wear durex raincoat hoh!

[Lala81]

Even if it works, probably another 15 yrs before even seeing it on the market.

 

Of course its going to be expensive, drug companies ain't going to pay billions for trials, production, getting approval for these drugs to be given for free.

 

I don't hold any high hopes. As of now besides vaccination, there is no real treatment persay of any virus.

The recent Merck trial of HIV vaccines has been cancelled after it was found to be a failure.

[Altivo]

in this case, would be big head versus small head loh...

[Nhyone]

the fear of AIDS is one main factor that deters people from having multiple sexual partners.

 

this only gives the promiscous another excuse to flirt around.

 

There are several STDs for which we have no cure either.

[Mzrmazda3]

If it's true then but some of those HIV people might not be able to live to witness it

[Xefera]

even if available, they should control the drug and make it available only to the needy e.g. children affected at childbirth.

[Mzrmazda3]

Yup Bro

 

Those children are innocent

[Wolverman]

how about gays infected with the virus through promiscuity and loose life?

[Apollo]

eh... if it is for the common good of mankind, it cannot b patented, just like pennicillin.

[Apollo]

y target gays?

 

do u know that it is not a crime for lesbian to hv same sex?

[Wolverman]

large percentage of homo have HIV ..cos of their unprotected sex which is often inducing blood exchange with body fluid. Their lives are usually promiscuious ... exchanging partners etc.. very unnatural

Edited September 25, 2007 by Wolverman

[Altivo]

is it??

[Apollo]

ur large % of homo is taken out of context and very much misinformed!

 

there is a larger group of hetrosexual infected with HIV. dun think their attitude toward unprotect is any less risky.

 

per 100,000 of citizen the nos of gays r lesser of a risk group.

[Apollo]

yes it is.

 

gays r targetted often as the bogeyman in society for all the wrong reasons.

 

kinda convenient one stop "screw them all" group

[Altivo]

all along, i tot gays/homos were just generic terms labelled on them.