Monday, March 4, 2019
Faith Wangermann - AIDS Cure
In an article published by the New York Times on March 4, 2019, Apoorva Mandavilli writes about the developments in the efforts towards an effective cure for AIDS. For the second time ever, a patient has been cured of HIV. The treatments the patients received were bone marrow transplants, and while that method may not be a reasonable method of widespread treatment, the general idea of arming the patient with more resistant immune cells could be more feasible. These steps towards a cure of a disease that has affected the whole world is reminiscent of Smallpox taking many lives in both Europe and later, Native Americans. Now, there is a vaccine to prevent such deadly outbreaks of the disease again.
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It is absolutely incredible that there are currently people who have been cured of their HIV, which is otherwise with you for life. I hope desperately that this information could be used to help other sufferers, and that this won’t just be a dead end for the development of a cure.
ReplyDeleteWell there has Brennan several cures for aids but the giver refuses to release it due to the fact that they want more money to be spent by the people who have the disease
ReplyDeleteEmma Burkey: I think that this is an amazing development, especially for a disease that infamously took the lives of so many in the 1980's and '90's. I truly hope that this becomes something more feasible for more patients.
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