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We have the tools to stop HIV. Stop wasting money. Educate and get people on meds.
@Nick45, vaccines can be created to cure as well as to prevent. See: https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/features/treating-disease-with-vaccines The problem is that no effective one has yet been synthesised against HIV 1 or 2, Herpes 1, 2 or 8, etc, despite long efforts. Hence, we are at where we are at.
All efforts and money spent over nearly 40 years (!) on creating a working vaccine against HIV have failed. That is, of course very disappointing. It was worth trying. But perhaps now such efforts to find a vaccine should be given up on - because it has been shown to be likely unachievable. And a vaccine isn't necessary to end HIV. No vaccine means that HIV must instead be irradiated by even better testing and treatment.
This is why we need to focus on CURE research. If they ever produce an effective vaccine, they will just wait for the rest of us to die off.
Money being spent on vaccines over the years could have been used for subsided or free to the user PrEP 92-99% effective. Just saying.
Ott Spoken
Poor Anthony! He has been working on this since William Jefferson Clinton tasked him with it in 1997 ("Ten Years to put an end to A.I.D.S.!) and still trying... If only he could apply for EUA!
March 24, 2022 • Connecticut