Caporegime
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Wow! You really took those few seconds to read the article didn't you?
Look Ma! Placebo controlled trial!
SO you gave me the rolleyes, even though, without reading it I guessed the outcome?
It was shockingly obvious, when most people in the heavily infected area's don't know how you catch it, you run a test of a drug but also tell them how not to catch it, the rate of infection goes down. The drug's effectiveness is COMPLETELY unknown, we already know knowledge is the best preventative measure.
THe simple fact is that its preventable by and large, and very very treatable these days if not curable. Most people dying of it now have already had it very long term so it progressed much further before they were started on newer treatments. Treated now even after exposure the drugs can prevent infection. For instance hospital staff getting accidentally stuck by needles from patients with HIV have very low transmission rates to start with, and taking the drugs for a few months, chances of actually getting HIV is incredibly low, same would go with accidents involving open wounds and other peoples blood getting in, chances of infection are low to start with and massively lower with a few months of treatment.
Its not spread by a guy coughing on a train with it, never has been and won't be, its NOTHING like smallpox and TB, not even close to Swineflu, its a deadly disease thats not very contagious at all, you could sit in a room with 1million aids infected patients, coughing around and sweating, and not get it. If you sat in a room with 1million TB/Smallpox/swineflu people all coughing, you'd be 99.999% likely to get it.
You make and adminster vaccines for easily communicable diseases that you CAN'T prevent catching unless, you know, you stop breathing, even then we've only vaccinated en masse, easily spread diseases that are incredibly serious. We havent' vaccinated against millions of diseases because, theres simply no need. HIV is one of them.
As for what could a trillion pounds be better invested in, a clean and or renewable power source would benefit EVERYONE on the planet, prevent wars, prevent most of the worlds pollution, etc, etc, etc.
Or we could spend it on a disease, thats quite easily preventable, treatable and more than liveable with these days. Yes people in AFrica and poor countries are dying, untreated, mostly because of the infrastructure in those countries, war and greed is whats holding treatment back in those countries. In the USA/UK you've got a longer life expectancy and chance of dying old with HIV than with cancer/other diseases.
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