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Resistance to key HIV drug ‘concerningly common’
UCL News ^ | 29 January 2016 | At Large Staff

Posted on 02/29/2016 7:04:45 AM PST by fwdude

HIV drug resistance to tenofovir, an antiretroviral drug vital to most modern HIV treatment and prevention strategies, is surprisingly and worryingly common according to a large study led by UCL and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

The research, co-authored by researchers at Stanford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, studied 1,926 HIV patients across the world with uncontrolled HIV despite being prescribed antiretrovirals. They found tenofovir-resistant strains in 60% of patients in sub-Saharan Africa in contrast to 20% amongst patients treated in Europe. Around two-thirds of patients with tenofovir-resistant strains had also become resistant to both other drugs in their regimen, indicating that their treatment had been completely compromised.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; notconcerned
More utter insanity of the sexual degenerates, trying to make highly risky behavior "safer." Why should we be surprised when it backfires?
1 posted on 02/29/2016 7:04:45 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Obviously a Homophobic drug that refuses to acknowledge the moral superiority of the Rump Rangers.


2 posted on 02/29/2016 7:06:49 AM PST by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Awgie

Probably a Republican drug


3 posted on 02/29/2016 7:07:57 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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To: fwdude

Looks like the virus is catching up on the evolution v. research arms race.


4 posted on 02/29/2016 7:13:14 AM PST by C19fan
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Looks like the virus is catching up on the evolution v. research arms race.

The virus has an army of 'helpers,' very enthusiastic 'helpers.'

5 posted on 02/29/2016 7:16:14 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

The political activists must need more funding.


6 posted on 02/29/2016 7:16:51 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: fwdude

No surprise. The drug was developed to enable them to continue their disease-spreading practices. No one in the establishment had the balls to tell them to stop what they were doing because it spread the disease.


7 posted on 02/29/2016 7:19:27 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: fwdude

I recall the disbelief aimed my way in 1989 when I asserted there wouldn’t be any “cure” for AIDS within the following 20 years.


8 posted on 02/29/2016 7:20:49 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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To: G Larry

Of course not. Is there a cure for cancer or Alzheimer’s? Why would we give precedence to a disease that mostly degenerate faggots do in the first place?


9 posted on 02/29/2016 7:26:26 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: max americana

Because AIDS conveys a consequence for a behavior.

Libs can’t stand the concept.


10 posted on 02/29/2016 7:28:20 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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there wouldn’t be any “cure” for AIDS within the following 20 years.

I remember a former Surgeon General (perhaps Koop, but I can't say for certain) saying something similar many years ago. His POV was that they way the virus works, setting up shop within the human cells, means that you would have to kill the cell to get to the virus, and that would kill the patient. At least, I think that is what he was saying; it's been a while.

11 posted on 02/29/2016 7:31:48 AM PST by LibertarianLiz
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All viruses “set up shop” in the body’s cells, that’s not the point.

Specific viruses do their dirty work in various ways. HIV is highly effective at targeting our immune system cells, and evading any effective treatment. It’s almost like the virus was created to hone in on a specific type of behavior - by a CREATOR.


12 posted on 02/29/2016 7:58:42 AM PST by fwdude
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To: fwdude

Nature is not mocked or fooled.


13 posted on 02/29/2016 8:06:15 AM PST by armydawg505
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To: G Larry

Hey libtards say that it’s “natural” to be a fudgepacker. They also forgot that it’s “nature” which tends to eradicate abominations that should not be..


14 posted on 02/29/2016 8:13:59 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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To: LibertarianLiz

Koop.
You recall correctly.


15 posted on 02/29/2016 8:16:58 AM PST by G Larry (ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants.)
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