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Dumb question: Isn't HIV a solved problem? With current anti-virals they can't even detect HIV in blood tests.


Treatment is both expensive and taxing on the body, the drugs can cause renal problems and even renal failure. Multiple drugs need to be taken, they'll need to be switched up, and you'll need regular blood work to make sure that they aren't destroying your organs. You're going to need to see expensive specialists regularly for the rest of your life. You aren't going to only fill a prescription and take a pill and have that be the extent of your treatment.

There are several different and relatively large populations for whom complications can arise with treatment, like those with weakened immune systems, organ transplants, kidney disease, the elderly etc.

If you're wealthy and in otherwise good health, then yes, HIV is a relatively solved problem for you.


If there was a cost-effective cure, we could consider it solved. The only (functional) cure for it involves basically taking a sledgehammer to the entire immune system and replacing it with one from a donor with CCR-5 delta 32. As far as anyone's aware, this was only done with 2(?) patients who also had blood cancers.

Everyone else is popping antiviral cocktails and living with both the stigma of the disease and the risk of a relapse if they ever end up not being able to afford the drugs.

So... not quite solved. Hopefully this'll get us closer.


If you call requiring tens of thousands of dollars of maintenance medication treatment annually for life a solved problem, then absolutely!


I'll answer the question to the best of what I know. It appears that there wasn't a problem to start with. Luc Montagnier, one of the co-discoverers of the AIDS virus for which he got the noble prize, is on record saying that it is a benign virus and in Africa at least is related to malnutrition. So unless the video is doctored one can take his word to be gospel. He is a heretic, btw.

Then there is Kary Mullis a noble prize winner (in chemistry) and the developer of the PCR test, who on investigation could not find any paper which indicated that the AIDS virus has been isolated, hence concluded that it's not proven that HIV causes AIDS ( or something to that effect).

If you cannot find the relevant videos on you tube search bitchute.


No it isn't. The costly treatment can have heavy side effects... for the people who can afford it, i.e. not most of people who are infected in Africa...


This still requires treatment for life, though. A vaccine would obviate this need, freeing up time, resources, and money for other healthcare.




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