FDA Approves First HIV-Prevention Drug - Polidicks

[QUOTE=KorJax;36805326]Confused with the terminology Prevention - As in this won't actually stop HIV after you've already got it, it'll just protect you from getting it with a 90% success rate? I mean that's nice and all but the drug would have to be cheap as fuck to even risk prevention when there's a 10% chance you can still get HIV. Especially since the best places to use this would be on a large scale within certain commmunities/locations that have a large HIV population (i.e. Africa), where they could basically just phase out the virus slowly, preventing the spread of it from happening. At this cost though, it's virtually impossible for anyone to have it except the super rich, and the super rich generally don't have problems that involve wanting to prevent getting HIV (but not actually cure it). Unless this means cure as well, in which case it's probably cheaper to do this in the long term than current methods to keep you alive with the virus.[/QUOTE] I have zero medical knowledge on this, but my best guess is that this preventive pill, even at 90% effectiveness, even if insanely expensive [I]is[/I] a step closer to an actual cure, wouldn't it? I never expect instant results, from "we got nothing to help" to *bam!* "instant cure for only 3 cents for everyone!" It's a long process. You have to be patient. That's how the world works.

that price tag is actually fairly reasonable considering a few things

Watch as people cry and whine that it's so unfair that they got HIV because the drug, out of the 10% failure rate, didn't work for them.

I believe there has only been one ever case of a person "cured" of AIDs, and that was through a bone marrow transplant from someone with a mutation that was HIV resistant. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF6thPo0cRQ[/media]

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;36804597]Condoms have like a 10% failure rate from what I've read. Plus, they don't stop the virus from being spread due by child birth or open wounds.[/QUOTE] Personally, I always go bareback when I fuck open wounds.

I would rather not stick my dick into anything that might have AIDS.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;36804652]I'm afraid this might actually lead to an increase in AIDS, because people might take it and think they don't need to be careful anymore.[/QUOTE] I dunno, HIV is really serious shit, I don't think anyone is dumb enough to goof off about that.

I think this drug is very comparable to a parachute. It has it's legitimate purposes, but at the same time it enables people to accidentally kill themselves doing things that they otherwise wouldn't have tried.

I want to laugh in PETA's face if animals tested this drug.

[QUOTE=barttool;36804560]with this price it seems the cure to aids is actually shooting up a million dollars up your veins.[/QUOTE] [video=youtube;Au0GRWUbqN8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Au0GRWUbqN8[/video] ?

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36804668]ok no seriously it's $13900 a year who the fuck is going to take it?[/QUOTE] Rich old queens!

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;36804608]$13,900 holy shit[/QUOTE] Drug companies are businesses like any other, and the purpose of a business is to make money. Creating a new drug takes billions of dollars in R&D and sometimes decades. And at any point along the way, the drug could fail and flush the whole project down the drain. So when they finally create something viable and it passes regulations to be brought to market, of course it's going to be retarded expensive to recoup the massive losses they took in developing it. It will get cheaper over time until that magic 20 year mark when drug patents expire and you get generics of it at rock bottom prices.

[QUOTE=bohb;36807024]Drug companies are businesses like any other, and the purpose of a business is to make money. Creating a new drug takes billions of dollars in R&D and sometimes decades. And at any point along the way, the drug could fail and flush the whole project down the drain. So when they finally create something viable and it passes regulations to be brought to market, of course it's going to be retarded expensive to recoup the massive losses they took in developing it. It will get cheaper over time until that magic 20 year mark when drug patents expire and you get generics of it at rock bottom prices.[/QUOTE] It's disgusting to think that in that time, thousands if not millions will die due to AIDS complications. The Cocktail is effective, but it's not enough to curb the pandemic.