{"id":5910,"date":"2011-05-14T20:38:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2011-05-14T20:38:31","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:38:31","slug":"a-new-aids-study-more-pressure-for-aids-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/a-new-aids-study-more-pressure-for-aids-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"A new AIDS study; more pressure for AIDS spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since 2002, rich nations have given tens of billions of dollars in assistance to poor countries to stop the spread of AIDS; more billions have been spent on drug development.\u00a0 Now, a $73 million study <\/a>funded by the National Institutes of Health has discovered that treating HIV-infected individuals with antiretroviral drugs early on dramatically reduces the chance that their sexual partner will contract HIV.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s another way not to infect your partner: use a condom and don\u2019t have the promiscuous sex that leads to HIV infection in the first place.\u00a0 But such low-tech solutions have never been popular among AIDS advocates; they come too close to stating the obvious: AIDS is a completely avoidable disease that results overwhelmingly from sexually irresponsible behavior.\u00a0\u00a0 Instead, AIDS is treated rhetorically among activists and the public health elite like an airborne or genetic disease that strikes individuals randomly.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Expect this recent test result to increase pressure on rich countries to step up their funding of\u00a0costly drug regimens in Africa that depend on patients exercising the personal responsibility in their drug taking that they fail to display in their sexual behavior.\u00a0 Meanwhile, patients who suffer from rare genetic diseases <\/a>over which they have no control can only hope that one-millionth of the funding and public attention that have gone into AIDS prevention will get channeled into medical research addressing their own conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since 2002, rich nations have given tens of billions of dollars in assistance to poor countries to stop the spread of AIDS; more billions have been spent on drug development.\u00a0 Now, a $73 million study funded by the National Institutes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[780,779],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5910"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5912,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5910\/revisions\/5912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}