• gammasfor@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeah I was going to say the reason there hasn’t been significant progress on a HIV virus isn’t because it isn’t possible but because for the longest time the bodies that could provide funding for the research thought HIV killing ‘the gays’ was a desirable outcome…

    • TechnoBabble@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Maybe 30 years ago.

      But in the last 20 years there has been a lot of of funding towards prevention and researching a cure.

      https://avac.org/project/resource-tracking/

      An HIV vaccine has proven itself to be an extremely elusive target.

      But with recent developments in biotechnology, it may not be much longer before we finally have get one.