I dont know the and and and, why don't you enlighten me.
I know what I have seen with my personal experiences.
And it is not 1980 anymore, it really is no big deal.
Similar to hep c. except hep c is completely curable now with a 3 month pill a day.
The cost? sure things cost money. so does cancer or leukemia or downs syndrome etc.
I would rather have hiv than any of the three above issues.
It really is no big deal.
I know I'm probably wasting time with this as you have yet to quote anything but anecdotal 'evidence', but this issue is incredibly important so hopefully you guys don't mind the derail.
As far as you 'personally seeing' someone on the pill a day and 'no hiv' issues, many people have positive responses, longitudinally, to the new combined medication. Unless you're privy to this person's medical history though, I don't know how you can claim they have 'no hiv' issues. Not to mention people with 0 viral loads are still treated as those with a compromised immune system.
As far as 'evidence', what you're saying is no different than Shane Holmquist seeing 'he has personally seen mold spores'. As a matter of science we have to look at the balance of the evidence.
Without making this a novel, the 'one pill' medications are basically a combination of 2 or 3 medicines, the so-called 'triple therapy'. They are typically separated into a backbone (2 NRTI's) and a 3rd NNRTI. Both of these medications deal with inhibiting DNA transcription, HIV is a retrovirus which basically means it will use its own RNA to try and rewrite the DNA of a host cell.
After infection, there is a short period where taking HAART as a post-exposure method can eliminate the virus, after which it takes up residence in multiple places in the body which makes it extremely hard to combat. When it does copy itself, it will often introduce abberations or 'mistakes' which is how the virus mutates. Multiple drugs are used in order to try and cover these mutations as well, and new drugs such as the T-20 fusion inhibitor try to stop HIV from even entering a host cell, but T-20 has to be injected. I think the distinction of whether you have to take 1 or 3 pills is a bit silly, but in many cases further measures have to be taken anyway.
But in short, HIV is a big deal. It doesn't matter if your viral load is 0, CD4 count is 5 or 500 (you can still die from AIDS at 500). It's a chronic condition, and while true that it is not the automatic death sentence it once was, it is nowhere near as trivial as you're trying to make it out to be.
I only swing your way dear.
