Posted on 02/26/2016 7:18:03 PM PST by NetAddicted
LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--An article in POZ Magazine today reported that for the first time, an individual on the HIV-prevention protocol pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, for over two years not only became infected with HIV, but became infected with a drug resistant strain of the virus. In a case presented at the 2016 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston, researchers found that a 43 year-old man whose blood serum levels suggested had been adherent to the medication portion of the HIV prevention regimen nevertheless became infected with HIV and that “… his drug resistance had been transmitted from another person, rather than acquired post-transmission.”
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early dementia hitting a lot of 40 and 50somethings taking the drug cocktail to prevent full blown AIDS.
No, they’re not taking it to prevent AIDS. They’re taking it to prevent getting HIV. HIV leads to early dementia.
When someone takes a drug intended to prevent a disease but is regularly exposed to it, the disease has a great set of conditions to mutate past the preventative drugs.
you mean with no protection, they’re depending on the pills alone? that’s stupid.
so even if HIV doesn’t blow into AIDS, it still causes dementia?
I don’t get how that works.
isn’t a virus either under control or not? thanks in advance
Yeah, they’re depending on the pills alone. I don’t know about the dementia. I guess I’ll have to look it up. They call it something like HIV dementia. Maybe it has something to do with it aging HIV carriers 14 years.
I don’t think every HIV carrier gets dementia. Just a lot of them. It’s a very well known disease effect.
that is an insane thing to do.
they are not furthering science to save children with cancer or vets with head injuries.
they’re testing to see if you can have anal sex without protection and not worry.
not exactly a valiant cause, but whatever floats their boat
Do I care? Let me see... I’ll get back with you.
The perversionphiles are downplaying this as an isolated incident that has little implication for the health of open homosexuals at large.
I say that if this is the discovery of one instance of a resistant variation of HIV, there are likely thousands out in the population. It’s the relatively tiny visible tip of a massive iceberg.
I bet you’re right.
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