Imagine 1985 heard 2015 would have AIDS cures, gay marriage and a black president

Re:Imagine 1985 heard 2015 would have AIDS cures, gay marria... by opendomain on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:42PM (#9788573)

Cure for AIDS? Is this Hyperbole or was there some news I missed?

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Re:Imagine 1985 heard 2015 would have AIDS cures, gay marria... by schoen on Friday June 26, 2015 @08:49PM (#9788589)

"Effective treatment" rather than "cure".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management_of_HIV/AIDS

The results of antiretroviral drugs have been astonishing, and most people with a new HIV diagnosis for whom multidrug antiretroviral therapy is available (and who comply with it) will never expect to develop AIDS symptoms.

"Effective treatment" is in the body of the post, while "cure" is in the title, and is misleading.

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Re:Imagine 1985 heard 2015 would have AIDS cures, gay marria... by rpietro on Friday June 26, 2015 @09:46PM (#9788738)

agree, nowadays HIV infection is a kind of chronic condition, far removed from what it used to be

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Re:Imagine 1985 heard 2015 would have AIDS cures, gay marria... by melling on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:11PM (#9788809)

We've spent a fortune on AIDS research in the past 30 years. Why wouldn't we expect to have treatments?

http://blogs.poz.com/peter/assets_c/2009/03/NIH_AIDS_Researc...

We could do so much more research for all diseases. Personally, in 1985, I would have expected cancer, AIDS, and many other major disease to all be cured by now. It's actually depressing how much work remains.

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Re:Imagine 1985 heard 2015 would have AIDS cures, gay marria... by chrisyeh on Friday June 26, 2015 @10:10PM (#9788808)

I had to conserve characters--that 80 character limit is hard!

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