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Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by SaberTail on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:00PM (#27272190)
There's a wonderful book called No Magic Bullet by Allan M. Brandt that discusses how rates of syphilis and other STIs rose after there were effective treatments.

To your comment, I'd at least say there's evidence that treatments to previous STI epidemics hasn't caused the downfall of humanity, and so a vaccine or treatment for HIV/AIDS likely won't either.

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Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by KMag on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @08:55AM (#27276212)
Does the book account for the effect of more people undergoing testing once there was an effective treatment? If there's no effective treatment, testing mostly benefits others.
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Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by Turing_Machine on Monday May 24, 2021 @11:05PM (#27272209)
Treatments and vaccines are different, though.
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Re:HIV mRNA Vaccines-Progress and Future Paths by Turing_Machine on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @04:49AM (#27274494)
In specific, you can get syphilis again after being treated for it, while a vaccine normally confers permanent immunity.
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