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Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

Researchers, including a BYU scientist, believe they have found a new compound that could finally kill the HIV/AIDS virus, not just slow it down as current treatments do.
And, unlike the expensive, drug (ocktails 25 years of research have produced for those with the deadly virus, the compound invented by Paul D. Savage of Brigham Young University appears to hunt down and kill HIV.
Although so far limited to early test tube studies, CSA-54, one of a family of compounds called Ceragenins (or CSAs), mimics the disease-fighting characteristics of anti-microbial and anti-viral agents produced naturally by a healthy human immune system.

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I have always thought that someone, somewhere had a cure for HIV that they were sitting on until the drug companies had bled everyone dry. I make no secrets about my hatred for big medicine. What do you think about this (I know the article is almost a month old)?

Notice that this is in the Business section of the newspaper...

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I'm always skeptical about researchers who publish via the media versus peer reviewed journals. The cold fusion guys are a classic example.

I would like to think the lure of winning the noble prize for medicine and being the doctor who cures aids is enough to make any scientist defy "the conspiracy". A noble prize confers a lot of immunity.

thebum · Joined: 09 Jan 2005 Location: North Korea

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

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Junior · Joined: 18 Nov 2005 Location: the eye

Cure is in Dominica.
http://www.thedominican.net/articles/aids.htm

Not to mention Iran.
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20060915/world.htm#6

the Cubans have no cure but have done especially well at treatment:

Currently, Cuba has the ability to slow down the impact of AIDS throughout the developing world. This isn't to imply that they have a cure. What they do have is a medical system that can adapt to different cultures.
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org/cubasi_article.asp?ArticleID=46

Adventurer · Joined: 28 Jan 2006

I am not aware of anything that would eliminate the virus. Yes, the drug companies have been bad to some extent, but it is good that the drugs were developed. I would like to see all those millions of afflicted people make it. You would think with all the money out there and research, we would see a cure out there.