PreP is a really effective tool for now while research continues. Your chances of getting HIV while taking the medication correctly reduces your chances to a very very small percentage. Of course, nothing is perfect, but it’s been great for the gay amab community.
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FoxAndKitten@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This actually gets me thinking… Is anyone actually working on an aids vaccine? Maybe mRNA could do something there, theoretically it should be able to grant pretty much any type of immunity you can have naturally
ShunkW@lemmy.world 1 year ago
mrcarrot@lemmy.calebmharper.com 1 year ago
There have been recent breakthroughs in that area along this exact line of thought, actually.
ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They are, but every time they get close to a cure god sends a hurricane to destroy the lab and kill all the atheists inside it
protist@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Yes, they are working diligently to ID an effective mRNA vaccine, but the same barriers exist as before. First, HIV mutates rapidly, meaning it easily escapes immunity and evades vaccines. Second, as a retrovirus, it integrates its DNA into a person’s own cellular DNA, so even if your immune system gets the virus, the DNA remains undetectable to the immune system and able to manufacture new virus at will.
Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, retroviruses are a hard nut to crack. Either you try to target the virus and leave the cells alone, which is the hard route, or you target the specific DNA sequence of the virus, which forces the body to start murdering itself.
TacoButtPlug@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I wish we could add friends on lemmy cause I like the cut of your jib