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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Sure there are still problems, but therapy is fairly benign for the average patient. This allows the patients to live normal lives. Jumping to stem cell transplants, however, will result in costly and deadly results.
Hopefully with more time, researchers will continue to find drugs that suppress the virus with even fewer side effects. All in all, there have been great leaps in treatment since the 80s.
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Thank you for your explanation.
Laypeople do think that by the time they get "normal" CD4+ counts, and low HIV titers, they are as healthy as an "ox" like a normal person. The reality is, that is how the "cocktails" keep you safe from degenerating with all kinds of crazy diseases that once predominated when we did not have the HAART...
The patients live probably up until their 60's. Maybe there are some longitudinal studies, I haven't seen them, myself. It doesn't mean they don't exist, but it would be nice to know the efficacy of the HAART longitudinally.
I agree, we need to "slow our roll" on stem transplant if there is true correction against HIV. Something tells me the data need more interrogation... Especially in light of quite a bit of scientific misconduct that is going on these days. I would wait to see correction in primates before I recommend a human trial...
That's just my opinion... Feel free to take it or leave it.
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