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by InclinedPlane
4858 days ago
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In more ways than one. It's taken decades if not centuries of study of other diseases to understand them and to develop treatments, and just as much time for treatments to have an impact on incidents of the disease. The study of HIV/AIDS has really shown off how far modern medicine and medical research has come. We were able to understand the disease in a matter of years, and develop some crude but effective treatments almost as quickly. Today HIV has become a treatable chronic condition, though the treatments are costly, and vaccines and cures are being developed as we speak. It's really quite remarkable. |
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_White. There were competing social forces too.