Is the end of AIDS in sight?
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Is the end of AIDS in sight?
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Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?
#2A little off topic, but may be beneficial to uppercase all of "Aids" to "AIDS" to avoid ambiguity
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#5A little off topic, but may be beneficial to uppercase all of "Aids" to "AIDS" to avoid ambiguity
To an American audience, yeah, it's definitely better in all caps.
However, The Economist is British, and sometimes in British English they capitalize acronyms that way. Only "true" (pronounceable) acronyms, though, so they'll write Nato ("nay toh") and BBC ("bee bee see").
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#6"Is the End of Aids in Sight?"
Short answer - no. Even if they achieve their ambitious plan, 5% is still a large number. Look at how hard it has been to eradicate the last of polio, and that has a lifelong vaccine.
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#7A little off topic, but may be beneficial to uppercase all of "Aids" to "AIDS" to avoid ambiguity
This was likely the HN title autoformatter at work. I knew what the title was trying to say, but I couldn't help but think of that South Park episode :)
Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?
#8A little off topic, but may be beneficial to uppercase all of "Aids" to "AIDS" to avoid ambiguity
To an American audience, yeah, it's definitely better in all caps. However, The Economist is British, and sometimes in British English they capitalize acronyms that way. Only "true" (pronounceable) acronyms, though, so they'll write Nato ("nay toh") and BBC ("bee bee see").
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#9"Is the End of Aids in Sight?" Short answer - no. Even if they achieve their ambitious plan, 5% is still a large number. Look at how hard it has been to eradicate the last of polio, and that has a lifelong vaccine.
At this point, even if a genuine vaccine/cure for AIDS were developed; most people wouldn't even know until a loved one directly affected or afflicted told them.
The "breakthrough in AIDS research" or "cure in sight" headlines are so recurrent at this point that people are just numb to a real breakthrough.
Re: Is the end of AIDS in sight?
#10"Is the End of Aids in Sight?" Short answer - no. Even if they achieve their ambitious plan, 5% is still a large number. Look at how hard it has been to eradicate the last of polio, and that has a lifelong vaccine.
It's also a self-balancing system. As HIV becomes rarer, fewer people will be concerned about it, and therefore fewer will bother taking Prep daily. In turn, HIV becomes more infectious, and more people contract it.
It will probably stabilize with about 0.4% of humans being infected.
Lots of things affect about 0.4% of people, because that's rare enough that most people don't have any friend or colleague affected, and therefore don't take precautions.