Comments on: Study claims HIV could be eliminated in decade

By: TigerTzu

TigerTzu — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 17:41:53 +0000

There is no profit in a cure, only in continued medication. I wouldn’t hold my breath or expect to see a cure anytime soon.

By: Malanya

Malanya — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:27:46 +0000

woah…

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:14:06 +0000

Eliminating AIDS and HIV would be wonderful for the world, but this study is providing false hope.

Antiviral drug therapy costs over US$ 1000 per month for a simple drug cocktail. Monitoring the patient and routine care, in addition to secondary infection prevention and care would significantly increase these costs many times over.

In all countries, the health care delivery system would be strained and heavily burdened financially to bear such a great cost and effort. Most developed countries struggle and cannot support all of their infected population. For African nations, this would be impossible. In addition, compliance and proper administration of such programs has usually been poor.

Condoms can be procured for as little as 5 cents (US) or about 4 cents (€) for international organizations buying in bulk. At the present time, money and effort are best directed toward prevention.

By: O Sandoval

O Sandoval — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:34:07 +0000

I’m glad that a new study suggests that aids could be eliminated, but, they have been saying that every 5 years or so. They shouldn’t come with simplistic approximations until there is a real solution. I know it gives hope for a lot of people but is getting tired.

By: Carl Sme

Carl Sme — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:24:52 +0000

Circumcision has nothing to do with the prevention or spread of HIV/AIDS. Those studies are seriously flawed and have been dis-proven by many reputable sources.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:50:48 +0000

Suggestions like this are very unhelpful. The encourage the problem to persist rather than address people to change their behaviours.

If we could prevent people from having unprotected sex and use a condom ever time they had sex and not use IV drugs, I am sure we could eliminated HIV in 10 years, as well.

Condoms are much less expensive, have no side effects, and can be more easily administered and used than complex drug regimines.

Current African health care systems have difficulty in treating the most mild of health problems, let alone a complex one. I suspect that the Bush administration’s objection to condoms and sex education have caused the HIV problem in Africa to worsen and not be addressed.