• HIV prevention pill Truvada backed by US experts
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[b]HIV prevention pill Truvada backed by US experts[/b] [QUOTE]The panel recommended US regulators approve the daily pill, Truvada, for use by people considered at high risk of contracting the Aids virus. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not required to follow the panel's advice, but it usually does. Correspondents say the move could prove to be a new milestone in the fight against HIV/Aids. Truvada is already approved by the FDA for people who are HIV-positive, and is taken along with existing anti-retroviral drugs. Studies from 2010 showed that Truvada, made by California-based Gilead Sciences, reduced the risk of HIV in healthy gay men - and among HIV-negative heterosexual partners of people who are HIV positive - by between 44% and 73%. The Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee, which advises the FDA, voted 19-3 in favour of prescribing the drug to the highest risk group - non-infected men who have sex with multiple male partners. They also approved it, by majority votes, for uninfected people with HIV-positive partners and for other groups considered at risk of acquiring HIV through sexual activity. The votes followed an 11-hour meeting of the panel in Silver Spring, Maryland, and a lengthy public comments session. Some health providers voiced concern that the pill could increase risky behaviour and could lead to a drug-resistant strain of HIV. But others welcomed the panel's recommendation. "This brings us closer to a watershed for global HIV prevention efforts," said Mitchell Warren, executive director of the Aids Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, after the vote. The FDA is expected to make its decision by 15 June. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18030057"]Source[/URL]
So now we've possibly cured heart attacks, cancer, and HIV. Neat.
[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;35908456]So now we've possibly cured heart attacks, cancer, and HIV. Neat.[/QUOTE] Prevention isn't a cure.
[QUOTE=Yahnich;35908594]Actually, vaccination against diseases like polio pretty much wiped the fucker out in developed countries. So, in a way prevention is a care.[/QUOTE] you cant really prevent heart attacks cancer and hiv in full just low chances and life styles
[QUOTE=Yahnich;35908594]Actually, vaccination against diseases like polio pretty much wiped the fucker out in developed countries. So, in a way prevention is a care.[/QUOTE] This is a pill that reduces the risk of HIV, not a vaccine.
Hurray for science!
OK now airdrop these all over africa
[QUOTE=Yahnich;35908594]Actually, vaccination against diseases like polio pretty much wiped the fucker out in developed countries. So, in a way prevention is a care.[/QUOTE] And measles, mumps, and rubella would have gone the way of polio had the anti-vaccine movement not taken off. As a result, thousands die each year from preventable disease because stupid, impressable soccer moms think vaccines are the product of a Jewish Illuminati Conspiracy.
[QUOTE=meppers;35909066]OK now airdrop these all over africa[/QUOTE] There's enough HIV and AIDS in Africa that these will be a waste of time to send in.
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;35909101]Just one step closer to the cure.[/QUOTE] It's a retrovirus, meaning it codes itself into your DNA so every new cell you make has HIV. Once you get it all you can do is keep the viral load down/undetectable with medication. Can't cure it.
[QUOTE=Madman_Andre;35910051]And measles, mumps, and rubella would have gone the way of polio had the anti-vaccine movement not taken off. As a result, thousands die each year from preventable disease because stupid, impressable soccer moms think vaccines are the product of a Jewish Illuminati Conspiracy.[/QUOTE] I hope the vaccine for stupidity comes out soon, we really need it. Though for now, no one will notice if a few soccer moms were to disappear.
[QUOTE=I Am Alive;35910107]It's a retrovirus, meaning it codes itself into your DNA so every new cell you make has HIV. [/QUOTE] Close, but not quite. Infects immune cells, not every cell.
[QUOTE=smace;35908540]Prevention isn't a cure.[/QUOTE] may not be a cure by definition however its just as important
Umm, there has been a prevention ever since Humans were ever on earth. Its called abstinence, maybe if you godless heathens practiced it maybe we wouldnt have aid babys all over the place. Gosh.
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;35915771]Umm, there has been a prevention ever since Humans were ever on earth. Its called abstinence, maybe if you godless heathens practiced it maybe we wouldnt have aid babys all over the place. Gosh.[/QUOTE] How do I practice abstinence? Is it something I slowly get better at with time?
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;35915771]Umm, there has been a prevention ever since Humans were ever on earth. Its called abstinence, maybe if you godless heathens practiced it maybe we wouldnt have aid babys all over the place. Gosh.[/QUOTE] I really hope you are trolling, if not you are incredibly stupid.
[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;35915771]Umm, there has been a prevention ever since Humans were ever on earth. Its called abstinence, maybe if you godless heathens practiced it maybe we wouldnt have aid babys all over the place. Gosh.[/QUOTE] Except you can still get HIV by mere accident. Some people even get herpies because someone did something to their drink, completely unknowingly. People are creepy. Though you're probably being sarcastic. [QUOTE=yawmwen;35915963]How do I practice abstinence? Is it something I slowly get better at with time?[/QUOTE] Masturbate a lot.
Such pill would be very profitable, drug companies should begin lobbying soon and every whore out there is going to have the time of their lives everyone wins!
[quote]The Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee, which advises the FDA, voted 19-3 in favour of prescribing the drug to the highest risk group - non-infected men who have sex with multiple male partners.[/quote] I don't know whether to feel relief that we have something like this coming to light or that they use the reasoning it works on homosexual men
So how is this better than, say, a goddamn condom?
Some people want to have children
[QUOTE=latin_geek;35917336]So how is this better than, say, a goddamn condom?[/QUOTE] Condoms fail. Used together, this pill and a condom (with nonoxynol-9) could wind up saving a lot of lives.
[QUOTE=maxipad;35918080]Condoms fail. Used together, this pill and a condom (with nonoxynol-9) could wind up saving a lot of lives.[/QUOTE] Nonoxynol-9 increases HIV transmission rates and doesn't help with most other STDs either. It does prevent babbies from being born though, because it is a spermicide, so I guess it does save lives indirectly? If you aren't born, you can't die.
It only decreases the chance by 49 - 73%. So what about that extra 51% - 37% of times it doesn't work..? People will probably start suing because they bought it and thought "IT PREVENTS ALL HIV ZOMG GONN HAS SEX WIT MAH AIDS WIFE TONITE." and then they end up getting HIV anyways. "That awkward moment when you take a pill that prevents you from getting HIV and you get HIV anyways."
[QUOTE=maxipad;35918080]Condoms fail.[/QUOTE] Lemme guess - American sex ed?
[QUOTE=Andokool12;35918233]Lemme guess - American sex ed?[/QUOTE] No, he's saying that they fail at times and are not 100% reliable. You can tell by reading the rest of his post that he isn't against their use at all and that condoms should be used in conjunction with the HIV prevention pill. Next time, actually quote his whole post instead of quoting one part completely out of context in some cheapass attempt to make a pun.
With time machines we have a cure
[QUOTE=Andokool12;35918233]Lemme guess - American sex ed?[/QUOTE] You're silly. Condoms have a failure rate. Even with perfect usage they have a failure rate of ~2%. Even sterilization has a failure rate. Everything has a failure rate.
[QUOTE=Collin665;35918465]You're silly. Condoms have a failure rate. Even with perfect usage they have a failure rate of ~2%. Even sterilization has a failure rate. Everything has a failure rate.[/QUOTE] Including failure
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;35919355]Including failure[/QUOTE] What about failing at failure? Does that have a failure rate as well?
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