It is also crisis of trust. Western medical companies, Bill Gates foundations etc do not have best reputation in Africa. There were all sorts of experiments done on people, some medications were not as effective as promised... And there is a heavy political and cultural interference, that is just not acceptable in Africa!
The global fight against HIV is at risk
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Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
#12I’m going to be very mad if there is a resurgence in HIV because of the asinine GOP. If people have to be worried again about their next sexual contact (condoms only offer between 70-90% protection against HIV), we will return to a prudish lifestyle again at a time the west can least afford it with falling birth rates.
Is a prudish lifestyle going to affect birth rate all that much? I can’t imagine the solution for falling birth rate to be that people need to sleep around more. If that were true, it wouldn’t have fallen in the first place.
Exactly, myself, and all of my straight peers are not having children because they are expensive, for all of us it's cost of living (well, and I'm gay, but there's ways around that :P)
Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
#13I’m going to be very mad if there is a resurgence in HIV because of the asinine GOP. If people have to be worried again about their next sexual contact (condoms only offer between 70-90% protection against HIV), we will return to a prudish lifestyle again at a time the west can least afford it with falling birth rates.
Not just chastity but also poverty. Imagine how much economic damage a global HIV pandemic would do that can be avoided by keeping it suppressed. What it the opposition to continuing this program thinking? The article mentions wrongly associating it with abortions, .. and maybe some support goes to at risk people which includes mentioning transgender… they would tank the global economy and ruin their own lives on this principle? I don’t get it.
Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
#14I’m going to be very mad if there is a resurgence in HIV because of the asinine GOP. If people have to be worried again about their next sexual contact (condoms only offer between 70-90% protection against HIV), we will return to a prudish lifestyle again at a time the west can least afford it with falling birth rates.
If a condom doesn't break then it's 100% effective. When a condom breaks you fails in a manner that you will know it failed and then there is PEP.
Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
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You've got this so twisted that I'm not sure where to begin explaining. Maybe this CDC link can help you: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/policies/law/states/exposure.html A relevant quote: > Many of these state laws, then and now, criminalize actions that cannot transmit HIV – such as biting or spitting – and apply regardless of actual transmission, or intent. After more than 40 years of HIV research and significant biomedi…
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Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
#16The main issue is not even mentioned - cheap anti-HIV drugs require escape from patents and promotion of generic manufacturing to reduce costs to the level that poor countries can afford to buy or produce the necessary retrovirals. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/Supplement_4/S557/68... > "Critical to the therapeutics market has been the role of generic drug manufacturers’ ability to supply low- and middle-in…
When a cure for hepatitis c was discovered (solvating iirc), everyone started screaming give it away for free instead of paying the price (~$100k).
That price was half the cost of existing treatment and very high chance of success.
If capitalism actually worked, they would sell their cheaper and better pill. No shocker there, it didn’t happen (generics in India and so in).
If I was CEO of a drug company, I would certainly incorporate that (I won’t reap benefits) in research budget allocations.
Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
#17I’m going to be very mad if there is a resurgence in HIV because of the asinine GOP. If people have to be worried again about their next sexual contact (condoms only offer between 70-90% protection against HIV), we will return to a prudish lifestyle again at a time the west can least afford it with falling birth rates.
Birth rates were higher back when lifestyles were more prudish. Hypergamy seems to have very little positive affect on the production and growth of healthy families and children.
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#19> global fight
it sounds like this is mostly about the US?
Re: The global fight against HIV is at risk
#20The main issue is not even mentioned - cheap anti-HIV drugs require escape from patents and promotion of generic manufacturing to reduce costs to the level that poor countries can afford to buy or produce the necessary retrovirals. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/75/Supplement_4/S557/68... > "Critical to the therapeutics market has been the role of generic drug manufacturers’ ability to supply low- and middle-in…
When a cure for hepatitis c was discovered (solvating iirc), everyone started screaming give it away for free instead of paying the price (~$100k). That price was half the cost of existing treatment and very high chance of success. If capitalism actually worked, they would sell their cheaper and better pill. No shocker there, it didn’t happen (generics in India and so in). If I was CEO of a drug company, I would cert…
drug research overall falls into a "natural oligopoly" .. the research is lengthy and expensive, yet the occasional "winner" can be generations of income. IIR a book on the industry is called "The Billion Dollar Molecule"
meanwhile, some of the obnoxiously, obscenely wealthy individuals in the USA are running small pharm brands, either supplements or critical medicines. This wealth-crowbar was exposed to the public by the "pharma-bro" guy not long ago