HIV/AIDS Has Been Cured!

It's going to turn us all into zombies!!

Seriously though: I think this is awesome, although the thing is the FDA is controlled by big pharma, and they don't want aids cured as they make more money treating it through a person's life. So, if this actually gets okayed by the FDA, I'll shit a brick.

How? Gene therapy? How did they regenerate the T-cells?

This is excellent news, hopefully the test turn out good results. So we can get these drugs out to people as soon as possible. The next problem is making it affordable because we all know the drug companies would rather maximize profits than cure everybody.

So... it hasn't been cured....

I think that its funny how not a big deal this is and how this only has 4 or 5 responses. I know its only still in the workings, but man.... had this been ten years ago.. I think its on the way to being the greatest news and its about time.

imagine AIDS/HIV being like polio this is potentially one of the first great achievements of this century

this could be the best news africa has heard all millennium. i pray that this works out and as one african american so eloquently put it, "you got to pray just to make it today."

http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/Local/2009/07/02/9998706-sun.html

"cured"? let's hold our horses folks

POSSIBLE FALSE ARTICLE

The article seems to be missing. Slashdot does not seem to currently contain any such article implying that it may have been pulled. more disturbing is that slashdot individually marks it's articles and this leads only to the homepage.

In any event vaccines are preventatives, not cures, and a phase one trial does not necessarily mean it even works, merely that someone thinks it might.

[UPDATE] found the article. It merely claims vaccine in human trials rather than a cure.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/07/02/192249/HIVAIDS-Vaccine-To-Begin-Phase...

You know, even if they did genuinely cure it, the Amercian FDA wouldn't stand for it- they'd lose too much money on AID/HIV prevention, treatment, and of course propaganda.

Cured? sounds like this is still in the testing phase. Also the link is well, missing. I'm not buying it until I hear some more on this SAV001-H.

Recovery from AIDS was already discovered in 1987 through using fruit and vegetable juices in the book "Rogers Recover from AIDS" without side effects. This is just another money maker that will be said to be in the works but never come out.

Multi-drug attacks worked in the 90s. Why is this news?

Bullshit title.
Incredibly misleading.

Really Canada has moved a step closer to curing HIV/AIDS virus, really? I'll believe it when I see it. However it's said the cure was found long ago by American health care research, there just not releasing it because it's hard to profit. Anyway American health care system is number 37 in the world, our opinion doesn't matter. I'm saying this on the 4th of July.

This is phenomenal news! Hope this vaccine works. Also hope they continue research on possible gene therapy for HIV/AIDS patients. This will be an awesome breakthrough!

aids may have never existed in the first place if you reasearch the matter hiv (the virus that supposedly causes aids) is undetectable as a virus directly the only such in existence, only by measuring t cells levels,can they detect it. then if you look at the time it became prevelent, the eighties, what else was becoming an epidemic? cocaine, do you think drug use could possibly lower your immune system? i do, is it a coincidence that aids became widespread the same time as cocaine? perhaps but it seems suspicious to me, also the big drug companies make billions in grants to research cures that never come for this,, there are many other aspects that dont add up if you look into it

Reputable news source.... I will believe it when I read it one or one is cited as a source. This post is from what can best be referred to as a blog and has yet to be reported elsewhere... t/poster should be ashamed of themselves for this rubbish.

In other news I've developed cold fusion.

I heard there has been cures in the past but theyv'e been suppressed. Do a search on it.

So greattttt =D

this is a revolutionary breakthrough!!!!!!

I do not think a vaccine could work . There are too many facets of this disease , for instance , its ability to hide in healthy cells . Great money making tool though . It would really sell well .

oh no, the white mans plot to kill minorities off might fail, stop this vaccine!

rofl.

ahhh! The gene therapy looks good.Stem cells taught to resist the virus also look good. There are a lot of hiding places. The brain is one. I am having huge trouble with dementia like symptoms and it is getting worse. This week I have changed to a different med to try to reach my brain fluid and kill off some of the virus there as it causes permanent damage.It is know fun guy's wear a condom and use clean needle's if you are a drug addict.