Posted on 07/23/2015 2:42:34 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
She's the woman who co-discovered HIV in 1983, and won a Nobel Prize for her work. But next month, French scientist Francoise Barre-Sinoussi will retire from her lab.
She spoke with CNN at this week's International AIDS Society Conference, in Vancouver, about activism, the future of HIV and why there's still no cure -- as well as answering questions submitted by our readers on Twitter.
Q: At the beginning, the epidemic was in San Francisco in the gay community. How have you seen this change over time?
A: The epidemic changed in the gay population, for example, because they were very well informed and starting to protect themselves against the infection. However, we are starting again to see the epidemic starting in the gay population -- at least in a proportion of the gay population in Europe, Australia and United States. I am a little bit worried that we'll start to have the same profile of the epidemic that we were having in the early 80s.
But in the early 80s we were speaking about the profile of the epidemic in Europe or in United States because we did not know very well at that time what was going on in Africa. But we started to realize the situation in Africa around 1985, and over there it was clear that the epidemic was mostly heterosexual and still is today. The situation in Africa, in a lot of countries, is mostly a heterosexual epidemic.
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Q: Are you really not optimistic that a cure will be possible?
ANS: A cure for me is almost an impossible mission because the reservoir of cells is not only in the blood. How to eliminate all the cells which are reservoirs is why I say it’s an impossible mission. They are everywhere — in the gut, in the brain, in all the lymphoid tissue.
Even if you have a very efficient strategy, how you can make sure that there’s not one or two cells still there and if one is there the virus will reappear again? That’s why I say it’s an impossible mission.
But you never know.
The only fatal disease known to mankind that is 100%, fool-proof preventable.
In Africa, they use anal sex for contraception.
Not if one gets it from a blood transfusion.
There is a cure. 99.99% effective. No homo behavior and you do not get HIV!
Well, if that is the problem, I know how to get rid of it, but it might make some people squeamish about the methods and losing all those hairdressers and interior decorators.
Leftists simply refuse to grasp that “Tab P does not fit in Slot A”.
Nonsense. It is not heterosexuals that are transmitting it en masse, but homo- and bi-sexuals.
But this can’t be! Oprah said that all heterosexuals will be dead by 1990 from AIDS!
Put them on a small island.
“Nonsense. It is not heterosexuals that are transmitting it en masse, but homo- and bi-sexuals.”
I don’t think the virus could have adapted to it’s presently foolproof state without the outside of nature look at the human system that beyond prolific gays gave the virus. Animals would never rack up the massive exposures that gays routinely do.
This was pretty clear in 1989.
Dr. C. Everett Coop made the same observation.
(former Surgeon General)
Yep, WHO decided it was no cost, no logistics.
The PC world really hates the obvious cause/effect relationship, so they deny it ever happened.
human error - which by now is also completely test-able.
No but men have anal sex, and then infect their spouses, who they only use for childbearing.
Women in Africa can’t enjoy sex because they have their clitoris cut off with a sharp piece of glass, and no anesthesia when they are about 10 years old.
So all of the people in this country who believe we are racists, guess what, I ain’t leaving. They can move there, and spend the rest of their lives squat pissing in a bush.
SOCIALISM KILLS.
Just a little more socialism, and America will collapse, and those of us who survive might be doing exactly that, because the water system no longer works.
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