Why do you think a cure hasn't been found for AIDS?

Question

"How many more lives will be lost before a cure is found?"

Answer 1

cuz now no body is interest in doing dat now ppl wanna be like paris hilton liney lohan.

i think dats very sad

Answer 2

AIDS is caused by a virus. But unfortunately its less specific than that. Its caused by a huge number of different ones and they all keep changing. Usually a virus is prevented using a vaccine, but its pretty tough to develop a vaccine for such a diverse rapidly mutating virus like HIV. Actually curing viruses is pretty tough as well, there is nothing like anti biotics which are very effective against bacteria. I'm not sure about this but I heard that the virus also has an unusually strong cell wall, making treatments even harder. I'm not sure if when u say its crazy u mean its crazy in the sense that scientists/governments havn't put in the effort-people have worked and are working very hard on it, but unfortunately very little progress has been made recently.

Answer 3

I could ask the same about cancer. It is even possible that there is no cure out there and even if there was our science still hasn't discovered it. The problem is that it is a virus and viruses mutate so it is impossible to find a constant cure. Look at the flu, you need a different flu shot every year because it is a different strain every year. We still have much to discover and this cure may be one thing. I think you should ask Magic Johnson how he has lived with HIV for like 15 years.

Answer 4

Generally to find a cure you need to fully understand what it does.

Hiv / Aids or Cancer for that matter.
act is different ways.
finding the starting point of any thing like this is so important.

Millions will sadly pass before a cure is discovered.

It also comes down to Money.
Research Cost

Answer 5

It is NOT a manmade virus. I personally have known Africans who are convinced that a pharmeceutical company from Europe developed this disease. Based on the Anthrax model and they then injected it into people along with a hepatitis vaccine. They think it was a government-supported international conspiracy to kill them off gradually, because they had won their freedom from European colonies. Now I get that the monkey and blood arguments are hard sells, but they're true.

As far as cures go, I think the real issues are more funding and less red tape. We need to get drugs out to the people by making them affordable. We that it is true, as generic drugs work as well as the pharmeceutical patents.

The American-based pharmeceutical companies blocked South African efforts to create cheap generic drugs for their own people. The CEOs based their legal argument on the idea of patent violation. I don't care about patent violation: make the companies that produce those drugs license out the patent and pay a fee on the earnings. The settlement of those demands would have solved the problem. They could have bought out the company, as well. It was about market-share values and profit loss. Human lives don't factor into it.

We need to work on a vaccine and health-related issues as well as preventing opportunistic infections. A 'cure' will come later. Few people realize that if medical personnel are exposed to the virus, during the first six months, AZT may prevent infection. One might be able to avoid it altogether by taking it but you would have to know you were at risk. After infection, three weeks later, there are certain flu-like symptoms. With more information and awareness programs early on, maybe more people would go in for testing. We need better, more accurate and anonymous testing so people don't avoid it.

Answer 6

AIDS,stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome which is an infection that causes the body's defences to break down,leaving the body wide open to almost anything.It is caused by a virus which can mutate making it difficult to find a cure.

Answer 7

The HIV/AIDS cell is a very complex cell. It is able to immune to anything that comes its way. It learns how to destroy and or take over other cells. The only thing to destroy it is Clorox. You can't use Clorox in the blood stream of course, but that is why they say clean up bodily fluids with Clorox, because that is the only found thing that actaully destroys it. My oldest uncle works with finding cures for cancer and he gets wind of new treatments. They say (meaning doctors or perfesionals) say that they can only cure the symptoms not the actual virus.

Answer 8

This may sound terrible but I believe it to be true, There is a possibility for a cure for all illnesses, but if we could cure all than how long would people live? They are not releasing cures so that they have a way to naturally control the population.

Answer 9

Because it is extremely difficult to find cures for viruses... We just now got a vaccination for the HPV (genital warts) virus and it's been around for ages... There is on cure or vaccination for herpes either... Eventually we will have an HIV/AIDS vaccine, but i'd expect another ten years or so.

Answer 10

because the aid virus mutates (changes form) everytime so antibodies can't act agianst them.

I believe that aids can be made in laboratory level by scientist, I think this because we are living in an overpopulated world so the government/scientists made the aid virus to reduce the population in the world. Once the wolrd's population has been reduced, the scientist will give the cure for the people who have it........

Answer 11

i cant remember the whole facts of the story, but i read somewhere that a man had been cured of aids/hiv.

it wasnt with a drug prescribed from a doctor but with some complementary therapy or other!

also there is a sort of vaccine available for nurses and doctors who get a needle stick injury from a needle which has been used on a patient with HIV, but they only use this if it is certain the needle was contaminated with blood from a HIV patient as the medication they give u makes u very ill

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