Turning The Tide On HIV And AIDS
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-07-24/turning-tide-hiv-and-aids
The International AIDS Conference is under way in Washington, D.C., this week. This is the first time the U.S. has hosted the event in 22 years. During those decades, new HIV and AIDS treatments have transformed the face of the epidemic. In 2010 alone, drugs prevented 700,000 AIDS-related deaths worldwide. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a leading HIV and AIDS researcher, is at the forefront of these breakthroughs. Fauci has led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984. Today, he says an AIDS-free generation is an attainable goal. Dr. Anthony Fauci joins Diane to talk about the challenges of HIV and AIDS, and what it will take to turn the tide.
Guests
Dr. Anthony Fauci
director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
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Some of the people blocking a real turn-around are, coincidentally enough, also people who would terribly miss the comfort and pleasure that "AIDS is God's judgement on people for whom I don't care," brings them.
We rarely hear anyone talking about the probability of a cure for HIV and AIDS. We do not hear much attention being paid to a vaccine anymore as well. Is that because big pharma is making so much money on the disease?
When it costs more than $14 K, per year for one drug I don't think big pharma is interested in curing or preventing it without a steady flow of pills to HIV- individuals and those who are HIV+.
If a cure showed up, would it ever hit the market in this climate?
I am sick and tired of hearing that the drug companies are using the USA for their R&D money for the rest of the world.
Your guest has a conflict of interest here...he's little more than a shill for the drug companies who have funded his research...
It's disgusting to hear that health of individuals takes a back seat to their ability to afford drugs...not to mention the comparison of anti-HIV drugs to flu drugs.
I turned off your show, Diane, I could no longer listen to the drug-funded arguments of this man...
Hallelujah Diane. I LOVED the way you ended your show today. It hit the nail on the head!!! Keep up the good work!!!!
If the message again, and again, and again is that there's going to be a cure, but it's going to take a long time before we can achieve that, and until then, what we have are medications that are cocktails of pill, after pill, after pill; essentially being a life of not only pills, but the constant and unrelenting and invasive monitoring that people with HIV are forced to endure, isn't there something to be said for the attitude of: WHAT IS THE POINT. There is very little quality to this life. Pill burn out is a bitter reality.
You're right, but you didn't hear the way Diane ended the show after enduring sooooo much of his condescending rhetoric. For thinking people, she came up with really good punch line.
Props to Dr. Fauci for standing up to Diane's incessant whining and badgering as she tried to get him to confirm her preconceived conclusions.