Why aren’t we there yet?

The tinfoil hat crowd will say that big pharma could cure it, but it is better to keep providing treatments for high cash flow, or that the government knows but hides the cure because the disease is prevalent among gays and minority groups…Yada, Yada, yada. While there is some truth there, it is for a lot less sinister reasons.

This week in Global Science News we are seeing that the Institute Pasteur has made some headway with the most difficult part of the virus, which is “identifying the characteristics of CD4 T lymphocytes that are preferentially infected by the virus.” It is the energy-producing activity that allows the virus to multiply.

The antiretroviral treatment used today is designed to block HIV infection, but it is not able to eliminate the virus from the body. The virus remains in reservoirs—”the CD4 T lymphocyte immune cells, the main targets of HIV.”

Getting at the source that allows the virus to replicate and adapt to help it resist therapy is one of the major steps that we have not been able to accomplish. We finally, in that step of research were not only close enough to a cure for the disease but also a viable vaccine for the same.

Well, the French are still working on it. However, it appears the current administration abandoned, quietly, HIV research in this country. This research is important, not simply because it would find a cure for a deadly disease, but that the very research process has the potential to make other discoveries that would treat many diseases more efficiently. Back to the evidence that we talked about concerning data with those boring journals. Personally, I think it’s Karen causing all those problems, so knock it off Karen. She and the current president have the same hairdo going on.

If these situations like healthcare, the ACA, diseases, medical research, or anything that would push us toward the future of medicine and effective healthcare continue, which they have and are always an ongoing fight, we need to make the popularity contest winners work for us. If not, people like Karen are out there telling them to underfund or not fund programs, research, and other lifesaving medical access for millions of people. They talk about budgets, funding, morality, and God, but what they’re worried about is elections, paychecks, donors, and honesty, unless you’re one of those K Bros, it’s not your $10 or 20 dollar donation they’re worried about in their elections. It’s the super PACs and their muscles that result in administrations that take out advancements in medicine and science. If you’re unsure, look into the Congressman who made his famous statement about taking funding from science because all they do all day is look at porn…

Well, it’s definitely time to relax and fall asleep…I mean, meditate with my journals.