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Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by dawhizkid on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:03PM (#18270603)
Edit: common STDs that are treated by antibiotics are becoming drug resistant like anything can be that is treated with antibiotics. Point is don’t think because you can take an antibiotic and make syphilis go away now that you won’t encounter a drug resistant strain now or in the very near future!

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161

Lol there’s no cure for syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hep b, genital herpes, etc.

The recent year over year increase in STD rates in the US has been very well documented. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by denzil_correa on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:10PM (#18270641)
> Lol there’s no cure for syphillis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hep b, etc etc.

Each and everyone disease you listed here can be cured. Example, Syphilis - https://www.cdc.gov/std/syphilis/lab/default.htm

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by hndamien on Sunday October 21, 2018 @10:17PM (#18271676)
If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.
Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by uniblih on Monday October 22, 2018 @12:32AM (#18272202)
> If you have a link for the genital herpes cure you will be rich.

May never happen [0], but one can wish. Although it doesn't have a cure, the treatability, prevalence, and general harmlessness of herpes make it less of an issue than the "curable" STDs. Most doctors don't even bother testing for it [1].

[0] https://www.healthline.com/health-news/why-we-still-dont-hav... [1] https://www.cdc.gov/std/herpes/screening.htm

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by masonic on Monday October 22, 2018 @02:38AM (#18272629)

  general harmlessness of herpes
Perhaps you missed that HSV is a vector for cancers (e.g Kaposi sarcoma).
Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by esf on Monday October 22, 2018 @10:59AM (#18275145)
Kaposi Sarcoma is caused by HHV-8, a completely different virus than HSV-1/2. They are in the herpes virus family, but this is a huge virus group including eg chicken pox (HHV-3) and Epstein Barr virus that causes mono (HHV-4).
Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by dawhizkid on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:14PM (#18270657)
Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by JumpCrisscross on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:17PM (#18270676)
> Antibiotics won’t work forever. Seeing drug resistant strains already

You said there's "no cure." That's different. Reducing frequencies of a disease for which there is literally no cure in exchange for higher frequencies of a disease for which there is emerging antibiotic resistance is still a good trade.

The article you cite regarding rising STD rates claims the cause is "a decline in funding for state and local agencies working on prevention" as well as "an extreme lack of awareness about STDs and sexual health" and "doctors are not screening and testing for these diseases and patients [not knowing] they need to ask to be tested" [1]. The only link to HIV stated is "people are not afraid of dying from HIV," not a link to prep.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna904311

Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by dimgl on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:05PM (#18270615)
What are you talking about? There's cures for literally every single one of those diseases you mentioned.
Re:A Blue Pill Is Stopping HIV, World-First Study Shows by dawhizkid on Sunday October 21, 2018 @06:10PM (#18270647)
Antibiotics aren’t going to work forever on new strains of common STDs. Already seeing rise in drug resistant strains.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna642161