On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:26:06PM +0100, Daniel Davies wrote: > OTOH, although this is an interesting scientific question, it has > surprisingly few political implications. Although there are differences of > opinion on how they work, the brute fact of the matter is that > antiretroviral drugs do in fact work for AIDS patients, and nothing else > does.
Hmm, even on the surface I have problem accepting a scientific explanation because it "just works" but can not be theoreticly explained. Of course, their are also those who deny that it works at all: --- Quote --- "I have a large population of people who have chosen not to take any antiretrovirals," says Donald Abrams, M.D., director of the AIDS program at San Francisco General Hospital. "They've watched all their friends go on the antiviral bandwagon and die." A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1995 showed that one of the things that long-term AIDS survivors had in common was that they didn't take antiretroviral drugs. [...] Trying to cure diseases by focusing on the development of toxic pharmaceutical drugs aimed at killing the viruses associated with them will ultimately make us all more vulnerable to new diseases. President Bush recently pledged an additional $200 million in AIDS funding over the next two years. Global activists think that the U.S. should contribute $2.5 billion. Without a paradigm shift in the way we approach AIDS, however, this money will not only be wasted, but could do more harm than good. -- HIV and AIDS: Myths vs. medicine, Burton Goldberg --- End Quote ---
