HIV Research developments and the Alphabet Soup
The HIV pandemic tends to result in support for the anti-Sex and assimilation tendencies of the Alphabet Soup and their politics.
I am a subscriber to Science magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, (AAAS), of which I am a member. I also follow Ars Technica, and see what is at Nature magazine webpage. (Nature is the other world leading science academic publication.)
I will provide some good science sources.
Mostly over the last twenty years, Science articles have been about better understanding how HIV works, better anti-virals, and failing vaccines. However, recent developments give real hope that HIV might come to an end.
In this section I am only going to post major milestone articles, but not all of them.
I believe that HIV tends to drive some anti-sex attitudes, also inhibits sexual activity in the Gay community and builds up a class of social workers with middle class attitudes influencing the Gay community. THESE ARE NOT BAD PEOPLE. I am just discussing tendencies in though. The bathhouses in San Francisco were closed down in the 1980s purportedly as a measure to stop HIV in a city where Respectability Gays (Gay Democrats) ran things. The Bathhouses could have been a great place to provide testing and education and the distribution of condoms but respectability Gays had a panic. Other repressive effects have been more subtle.
I think if there was both a vaccine and cure for HIV there would be more developments of sexual liberation and less anti-Sex attitudes.
VACCINES
The following are articles on mRNA vaccines. These promise effective vaccines against HIV. Basically with mRNA vaccines you can tailor exactly what anti-gens you want produced. They call the mRNA vaccines digital vaccines. If you know the genetic sequence of the vaccine, you can pick precisely which of the virus’ anti-gens to use for a vaccine. The 90+% effectiveness of the Covid vaccines on first try was fairly amazing.
Moderna has just started a clinical trial of a mRNA HIV vaccine as reported on 1/31/2022. No doubt other pharmaceutical companies will come up with other mRNA vaccines. We can also expect some technological cycles with the vaccine. Once the first one is in use, probably a 2nd version will be developed based on what is learned from the first one.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/31/health/moderna-mrna-hiv-vaccine/index.html
CURE
The following article is somewhat technical and you only can see the abstract.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scitranslmed.abl3836
This is a popular article.
Basically what happens with AIDS patients getting anti-virals drugs is that the HIV virus hides out in certain cells and says quiet (inactive) so there aren’t foreign proteins for the immune system to find and get ride of the infected cells.
This isn’t a cure in itself, but it is significant progress towards getting a cure.
Though Ed Sebesta was in semiconductor process engineering, he has been following other sciences. The singular thing about science that he has observed is how the tools and methods to discover science themselves have advanced tremendously. The tools in the fields of biology, medicine, molecular biology, etc. would have been unimaginable 40 years ago, yet things continue to advance.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS
There has been a lot of scientific progress in other areas. Some people are immune to HIV and there is research as to why. How HIV works continues to be investigated. Even failures in new drugs and vaccines offer information about HIV.