Question
Why are scientists not concentrating on finding a cure ?
16 July 2016. Related: All topics, Cure.
Why are the scientists concentrating on making people aware and not concentrating on finding a cure ?
Answer
Scientists – and other people too – are working in lots of differtent areas: treatment, prevention and cure.
It isn’t one thing or another. Imagine if all the work on treatment stoped and a cure is not then found for 30 years. Actually, this is a bit like vaccine research. Although some people promised a vaccine in two years, then five, ten and twenty years, we still don’t have one.
But we do have effective treatment that gives us near-normal life expectancy.
This weekend a special conference on HIC cure research is held just before the large HIV conference in Durban. See this link for details.
http://www.iasociety.org/HIV-programmes/Towards-an-HIV-Cure/Events/2016-Symposium
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