Posted on 08/04/2008 1:09:57 AM PDT by neverdem
MEXICO CITY — Can a pill a day help prevent infection from H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS?
No one knows. But researchers in a number of countries are conducting trials and planning others to test the unproven strategy that a daily pill, or a combination of drugs, can prevent H.I.V.
By mid-2009, more people will be enrolled in such trials than in all of those for H.I.V. vaccines and microbicides, the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition said in a report issued here on Sunday at the start of the 17th International AIDS Conference.
Initial findings of the safety and effectiveness might come early next year, although researchers...
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The United States Agency for International Development, the C.D.C. and the National Institutes of Health are paying in part for all of the trials. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is paying for part of two. The organizations have undertaken the trials because of the success in giving antiretroviral drugs to pregnant women to prevent H.I.V. infection in their infants and drugs to prevent malaria.
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Initial PrEP studies are testing tenofovir, either alone or combined with another drug, emtricitabine.
Infected people taking these licensed drugs have shown limited side effects like nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and intestinal gas. But the safety of the drugs must be established among noninfected people as well as among participants who become infected in the study.
Trial participants include gay and bisexual men, heterosexual men and women, couples in which one partner is H.I.V. infected, and sex workers.
Up to 15,000 people are expected to be participating in trials by mid-2009. Sites of the trials include Botswana, Brazil, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Peru, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda and the United States.
Male circumcision has proved effective in a significant percentage of H.I.V.-negative people in trials in Africa...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Oh, but it’s only antiretrovirals—balm of Gilead. Let them have it. They’re certainly not going to stop shooting up drugs and porking each other in the behind.
Pardon the bluntness, but
don’t buttf*ck
don’t share dirty needles ( aggh! )
don’t have sex with those who do
and you won’t get AIDS
( or GRID- remember that one? )
It’s rather paradoxical, isn’t it? They’ve got a disease that supposedly wreaks havoc on the immune system, so they fight it by taking drugs that wreak havoc on the immune system.
There really are times ( like this ) when I feel like I've jumped aboard The Crazy Train, and would like to jump off.
Like that gawd-awful old joke:
A man goes to his Doctor, complaining about a pain in his arm...
He sticks it out at a weird angle, and makes it do things it was never meant to do...
"Doc, it hurts when I do this!"
"Well, quit doing that, you damn fool!"
“Researchers Look to Daily Pill to Avert H.I.V.”
Saltpeter?
Uhh, Errr, no thanks, think i'll pass on that one!!!!
Thanks for the ping, Ramsbotham. Did you read the PDF link to the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition in the NY Times article? Here it is in case you missed it. These people are clearly insane!
http://www.avac.org/prep08.pdf
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==First, do no harm! IMHO, this is nuts!
Finally reached your limit, eh Neverdem?
Seen this one?
No. Risking adverse drug reactions for an otherwise avoidable disease is just stupid.
I wouldn’t hang my hat on some studies from Africa like Duesberg does. There are other well done studies from Africa that show circumcision cuts the rate of HIV/AIDS by half or more. Before HIV/AIDS, most IDU/IVDA died from drug overdoses, not rare opportunistic infections. You still haven’t explained the dramatic decreases in vertical transmission, mother to child, in HIV positive mothers with only perinatal antiretroviral drug treatment.
Hmmm. I think I'm going to talk to my oncologist about starting a program of aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments--just in case I get cancer some time down the line!
LOL!
Vertical transmission of what? HIV or AIDS? I'd expect the former, but it would be interesting to see the stats on the latter.
PS I hope you don’t mind if I borrow that from time to time...just told my wife, now she’s LOLing too.
Not at all!
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