Re:5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @01:37AM
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If HIV were really not a big deal anymore, why should people still worry? If you could have risk-free sex with the seediest of characters, why would it be "not a responsible thing" to do so?
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Re:5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
by majikaja on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:00AM
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It's not quite as benign as a common cold yet, is it?
Re:5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV
by tsimionescu on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:37AM
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It's definitely not - which is why I said "if it really were". Hopefully, one day technology will get it there.
Note that the treatment in this article, as others have pointed out, is really not that. This is an extremely violent treatment that no one in their right mind would use for HIV - it's just a last-resort treatment for fatal blood cancers that happened to have cured HIV in some patients.