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Originally Posted by pieter
Tell the millions of people in Africa that have Aids that a looooong time will be max 20 years. For them it might as well be 200 years, because they will be just as dead then.
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<Sigh>. The answer to AIDS in Africa is cultural, not drugs. As long as the current sexual mores in Africa remain unchanged, the epidemic will never die out. Look at what's been done to control AIDS in Thailand. Currently, drugs are just pallitives, they don't <cure> the disease. Eventually, you get drug resistant strains, and the drugs become worthless. When that happens, the patient starts passing around the resistant strain. (The same problem occurs with malaria, and bacterial antibiotics.) Finally, if the rich patent world stops making new drugs, because there is no profit in it, then you'll be back to square one in 15 to 20 years, with no effective drugs left.