Do you believe the rumor that they have found a cure for AIDS?

I heard that in the 80s. Something about the government wanted to thin out certain demographic groups so they were not going to cure it.

I didn’t believe it then, and I don’t believe they could keep a secret successfully this long.

Agreed.
Of course, I wasn’t born in the 80’s, so I wouldn’t know. XD

you missed absolutely nothing.

I don’t doubt it.

Actually, my friend’s mom is a nurse and she sayds there is a cure, but then people wouldn’t be buying medicine from companies if there was a cure.
Or maybe that’s a conspiracy.

big medicine is one of the largest forms of government campaign monies. There are so many drugs out there that are designed to mask one problem while causing another. There very well could be a cure for many things and we would never know it.

Gamers decoded the AIDS molecular code

I don’t know if there’s a government conspiracy… but really got a laugh out of a “Fluther-like” community of gamers outsmarting scientists.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/06/05/eveningnews/main20069146.shtml

According to this article, it’s called a functional cure.

I too doubt that the government would withhold a cure from the public.

Btw, I think the issue with the “common cold” is that there are hundreds of different viruses that cause cold symptoms, so when you get it it’s a different virus every time. Finding a cure for the cold would mean curing all those viruses, not just one.

HIV infection has been curable for a long time. As long as the treatment is given within the first 24 hours of infection, they can break the reproductive cycle of the virus. This is why many places have passed “good samaritan” laws which compel anyone who bites an emergency responder (cop, paramedic, firefighter) to get a test for HIV. The treatment to cure HIV is 100% effective, but has some very serious side effects. A person might be HIV-positive and not test positive, which means a negative test still leaves the person bitten in a quandary, but a positive test removes all doubt.

There is also some evidence that HIV is becoming friendlier. The common flu we get now is the same flu which killed 120 million people at the turn of the 20th century. The reason it doesn’t kill anyone but the very old, very young, and immune-impaired is because diseases which kill their host have a harder time spreading than diseases which don’t. The less lethal strains of Spanish Flu outperformed the more lethal ones, eventually driving them out of existence. In Africa, where HIV ran rampant, strains which killed their hosts fast quickly dropped out of the race, leaving only ever less lethal variants to spread. In time, HIV will be nothing more than another cold or flu.

Same rumors have been around for years as regards cancer!