Hit hard, hit early back on agenda?

[Martin]

Hit hard, hit early was a dangerous strategy used to treat HIV in the
1990s. The theory was that getting HIVers to begin popping HIV
wonder-drugs at the earliest opportunity was the best method to get
the virus under control and keep it so.

As with everything else HIV related, it was a mistake and is now
largely discredited. The horrendous side-effects of the drugs, HIVers
inability to remember or be bothered to take them and problems of
resistance led to the policy being dropped. HIVers are now encouraged
to wait as long as possible before beginning drug treatment regimes.

In another U-turn, it appears that hit hard, hit early is back on the
agenda. Fortunately even some of those within the inner-circle have
doubts about it.

If you haven't done so already you might like to read the article
titled "Another Kind of AIDS Crisis." See Usenet article
<1186.1258021...@hiv-poz.co.uk> or
<http://www.hiv-poz.co.uk/articles/index.php?article=1186.1258021...@hiv-poz.co.uk>.
Direct link: <http://nymag.com/health/features/61740/>. It details
many of the problems associated with long-term HIV wonder-drug use.

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111208957.html>:

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The National Institutes of Health and the D.C. Health Department are
preparing to launch a study in the District with an ambitious goal: to
determine whether aggressive treatment of every adult with HIV could
eliminate AIDS.

"The purpose is to get the . . . level [of HIV in the blood] down so
that people will not infect anyone because their viral load is so
low," said Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "When you follow couples -- one who's
infected the other who's not -- the probability of infection
diminishes when the viral load is very low. The philosophy is if you
could test everybody, and treat everybody who has HIV, you could use
treatment as prevention."

Fauci declined to say much money and other resources would be devoted
to the study prior to the project's December launch. He and city
officials also would not to say which areas of the city would be
included in the study, aside from Anacostia.

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Some doctors have said the study's premise is shaky because the WHO
theory is not valid. Elimination of HIV is theoretically possible,
"but it would take at least 70 years" based on the WHO model,
according to scholar Bradley G. Wagner and professor Sally Blower, at
the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at
Los Angeles.

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[David Z]

[ramblings of a delusional criminal deleted]

WARNING TO READERS: Martin is an HIV positive man who has admitted that he
engages in unprotected sex with men after lying to them by telling them he
is not HIV positive. He has absolutely no remorse for his lethal behavior.
He justifies his selfish and criminal actions by arguing that HIV is a
fiction. Since his actions are extremely reprehensible, I have chosen not
to respond to his drivel and suggest that you do the same.