Originally Posted by
jetsetlemming
I've been meaning to start a thread on AIDS research, but I've yet to get around to it. I'm lazy. I already bitched about it to pkp, though. ^_^ Basically, never donate or support chairties claiming to be for "aids research" or "finding an AIDS cure." Because of what HIV is, and the way it works, there are only two plausible ways to cure it; remove your immune system (chemotherapy works well for this), starving the virus to death, and killing you from poisoning your body, or genetically engineer an organism to hunt down the aids and kill it within your body. Not currently possible with the level of technology available. The only plausible way to beat aids is the only one never discussed: Teach safe sex, discourage drug use, and use all that charity money to fix the medical system world wide to prevent HIV infections from needles/transfusions.