Saint-Armstrong Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21651225 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Yeah I saw that. Not necessarily a cure though sounds like it's only for those who are born with it and get immediate treatment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 sounds like it's only for those who are born with it and get immediate treatment. bad news tokyos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 3 March, 2013 Share Posted 3 March, 2013 Yeah I saw that. Not necessarily a cure though sounds like it's only for those who are born with it and get immediate treatment. It's a step in the right direction at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 It's a step in the right direction at least. Definitely. Kids born with the disease are one of the groups who cant possibly have had any part in their contracting it, not the only ones of course, but if they can be cured of it thats got to be a great step forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Definitely. Kids born with the disease are one of the groups who cant possibly have had any part in their contracting it, not the only ones of course, but if they can be cured of it thats got to be a great step forward. So the good aids not the bad aids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 So the good aids not the bad aids? HIV isn't Aids HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 So the good aids not the bad aids? Its all bad, and I'd like to see it all cured. But tbf, I'm happier that a cure might have been found first for kids born with it than adults who've blithely ignored over two decades of blanket advertising and information about safe sex and needle exchange programmes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Poor old hypo, trying to crack a funny problem being its the Lounge so people don't watch comedy, they just watch the news and question time. To help explain for the newsnighters here is what he was referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFNs2mOkKzc&feature=youtube_gdata_player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudders Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 If this was in the muppet show I'd have laughed as well hypo. I wish more people would pop into the muppet show for a bit of aids related tomfoolery! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 If this was in the muppet show I'd have laughed as well hypo. I wish more people would pop into the muppet show for a bit of aids related tomfoolery! The problem is that You wouldn't have got a serious reply like that from scotty to reply to in the muppet show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 The problem is that You wouldn't have got a serious reply like that from scotty to reply to in the muppet show. tbh hypo, its rare for me to post anything serious anywhere. I must have missed that brass eye episode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spudders Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 You were probably busy buming a monkey that day Scotty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 I'd want to read the original research paper before getting too hopeful. News articles on this are all quite thin on details. And there would need to be more testing done on other cases. Also, if the drugs used are expensive, it may not be much use for poorer areas where Aids is prevalent, which is where it is needed, as the west already has the resources and drugs and so on to make sure that the majority of babies born to HIV positive mothers aren't born themselves HIV positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 So the good aids not the bad aids? HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus AIDS - Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome This isn't a cure for AIDS, which is the final stage of HIV. AIDS is the last stages of HIV. I hi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Saintandy666 is definitely more a Newsnight/Question Time sort of man than a Brass eyer isn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Saintandy666 is definitely more a Newsnight/Question Time sort of man than a Brass eyer isn't he? *Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 (edited) Massive step forward. However in this country now the average life expectancy if you have HIV is now the same than if you didn't have the virus - which is an astonishing leap from where we were a few years ago Edited 4 March, 2013 by sussexsaint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Saintandy666 is definitely more a Newsnight/Question Time sort of man than a Brass eyer isn't he? Yep, I'm just really boring. I didn't even look at the video. Sorry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Funnily enough I think you'd like it as it is political satire based on how the media report & sensationalise things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Funnily enough I think you'd like it as it is political satire based on how the media report & sensationalise things. Yes, I have seen a little bit of it. My brother showed me(and he is old enough)! The Paedophile episode? Whatever it was, it was very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Yes, I have seen a little bit of it. My brother showed me(and he is old enough)! The Paedophile episode? Whatever it was, it was very good. You really should watch all of it (it's superb, probably the greatest satire of reporting ever. It's on 4OD and DVD on ebay for about three quid). Christ people saying Brass Eye is before their time, it makes me feel old. You do strike me as some sort of cold emotionless cyborg though so you may not like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 The day today , that was it's forerunner in many ways was also astonishingly good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 You really should watch all of it (it's superb, probably the greatest satire of reporting ever. It's on 4OD and DVD on ebay for about three quid). Christ people saying Brass Eye is before their time, it makes me feel old. You do strike me as some sort of cold emotionless cyborg though so you may not like it. No, the episode I saw I liked. Last sentence there a bit unnecessary no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Anybody want some cake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Cue Andy wondering why you are talking about cake. I can't take anyone's opinion seriously if they haven't experienced the full genius of Chris Morris. Don't forget his radio shows as well and four lions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Now Four Lions I have seen. Brilliant film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hypochondriac Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Now Four Lions I have seen. Brilliant film. Are you only allowed to experience things that are not before your time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintmonkey1979 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 You were probably busy buming a monkey that day Scotty! That is an unfounded rumour! Sort of. I'm a giver not a taker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Are you only allowed to experience things that are not before your time? Ouch, another totally unnecessary swipe. I didn't realise I was talking to a cultural connoisseur. Presumably you've sampled/seen/watched/listened to all major pieces of media/literature/art from before your birth/old enough as well? I thought not. Anyways, this thread was about HIV, so we should probably get back to that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
This Charming Man Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6szE_qmzavQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Massive step forward. However in this country now the average life expectancy if you have HIV is now the same than if you didn't have the virus - which is an astonishing leap from where we were a few years ago I was just thinking how treatment has advanced rapidly although longer than a few years. I worked on the first Protease Inhibitor some twenty years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Yep, I'm just really boring. I didn't even look at the video. Sorry Agreed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkish Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 You really should watch all of it (it's superb, probably the greatest satire of reporting ever. It's on 4OD and DVD on ebay for about three quid). Christ people saying Brass Eye is before their time, it makes me feel old. You do strike me as some sort of cold emotionless cyborg though so you may not like it. The Nonse Sense sketch was one of, if not the funniest thing I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 4 March, 2013 Share Posted 4 March, 2013 Anybody want some cake? Just say "No!". RonManager. Just say "No!". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 How is you Czech neck bletch? Did you manage to cry all the fluid out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 How is you Czech neck bletch? Did you manage to cry all the fluid out? I did Toke, but I fear that the damage I've done to the Shatner's Bassoon area of the brain is irreversible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Don't worry, it will only take a couple of seconds to repair. This of course will seem like years for you but if you jut stay away from trams, you'll be fine. Whatever you do, don't read one of your own posts, you'll die of old age! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyo-Saint Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 Early evidence of trolling before trolling was invented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scotty Posted 5 March, 2013 Share Posted 5 March, 2013 The day today , that was it's forerunner in many ways was also astonishingly good Brilliant, I especially liked the "War" sketch, funny as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hutch Posted 12 March, 2013 Share Posted 12 March, 2013 I didn't want to tempt fate when this thread popped up earlier, but it isn't a particularly rare phenomenon. We've got a little six week old boy at the moment. His mother was HIV+, and he tested +ve at birth. He came to us at a week old, and has been on daily ARVs since birth. He was retested on Friday and we got the result today - he is now clear. No more ARVs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctoroncall Posted 12 March, 2013 Share Posted 12 March, 2013 I didn't want to tempt fate when this thread popped up earlier, but it isn't a particularly rare phenomenon. We've got a little six week old boy at the moment. His mother was HIV+, and he tested +ve at birth. He came to us at a week old, and has been on daily ARVs since birth. He was retested on Friday and we got the result today - he is now clear. No more ARVs. That's great news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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