HIV and AIDS is here. It's killing people now. It has been around for thirty years (I contracted it 23 years ago through my haemophilia treatment - I was 5 years old at the time) and it's not going away any time soon.

It doesn't matter anymore where it came from. What matters is that we have the power to help people suffering from it. To prolong lives. This project is helping to reduce the cost of (and reduce the time doing) research in medicine by such an amount that more people will be able to have access to medicines than has ever happened before.

How the virus came about doesn't seem relevant anymore. If said "scientist" exists, and is holding a cure for this thing, then they have held it for years against the prevention of the loss of millions of lives... they won't give it up any time soon. Let's get on with treating people... at least that's in our power to do.

Thanks for your reply Arnold. I am aware of several up and coming treatments, fusion inhibitors, that work in the way that you suggest, by binding with CD4 receptors in order to disallow the HIV virus access to the T cells themselves. All previous treatments to do with reverse transcriptase (nucleoside analogue, non-nucleoside, nucleotide) and protease work at disrupting the replication process of the virus once it is already inside the cell. Fusion inhibiton seems to be the way to go as it would, given 100% coverage of all CD4 receptors (and barring mutations that would enable the virus to use other receptors), allow the virus to pass through us as you say.

And as a single virus has a "shelf-life" if you like, no replication means the eventual eradication of the virus from the bloodstream. "Undetectable viral load" may soon mean "Zero viral load" instead of "less than 50 copies per ml of blood"

There are so many fronts on which to attack the virus. This project is working on protease inhibition... maybe the next one could work on fusion inhibition?

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Lyme disease takes a licking, and keeps on ticking.

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Hello mates! I am coming back again. I am sorry for my article if I make somebody upset. Anyway I would like to thanks you all that advise me whether to understand more about life and that discease. I am now very fine and know well how to lead my life. We are not the AIDS victim. We have to be responsible on whatever we did for the sake of ourself.
Alternative therapies would be the kind of help, especially the therapy related to the inside body or mind.
I hope i would have ability to help my people in a few year later.

Oh, it seems that there is a crunchy little cyber war going on those seemingly peaceful WCG pages...
Dear paranoiacs, go spreading your mental viruses somewhere else and let reasonable people focus on their task! We didn't come here to spend our CPU time for infecting other's minds. And stop blaming innocent people for problems that they are not responsible for. Also, there is no such thing as clan liability in modern society - it's a horrific middle age concept.
Thank you.