It looks like those people who keep telling me I should be stuffing
myself with HIV drugs may soon have a chance to try some of their own
medicine.

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=avwsFKCGoZqo&refer=australia>:

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July 22 (Bloomberg) -- HIV drugs will be given to people who don't
have the virus by U.S. scientists to determine whether the medicines
can protect those at greatest risk of catching the AIDS-causing
disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta are
recruiting volunteers in Thailand, Botswana and the U.S. to test
so-called pre-exposure prophylaxis as a means of prevention. The
National Institutes of Health is planning a trial for Peru and
Ecuador, researchers told an AIDS conference in Sydney today.

The theory suggests that taking anti-HIV drugs before potential
exposure to the virus can protect a person against acquiring it
through risky sex or intravenous drug use. It's controversial because
of concern it may raise resistance to the drugs, making them less
effective when infection happens.

"We don't yet have definitive proof this is effective,'' Dawn Smith,
the CDC's associate chief for science, told the conference.

Unlike other experimental approaches to fighting HIV such as vaccines
and microbicides, the technique uses drugs that are already in use,
such as Gilead Sciences Inc.'s Viread and Truvada. The regime has been
shown to lower the risk of infection in monkeys, according to the AIDS
Vaccine Advocacy Coalition.

U.S. Trial

The U.S. trial will target young black males who have sex with men
because they are statistically more at risk of contracting HIV than
their white peers, Smith said. The Thai trial will target as many as
2,000 injecting drug users, and the trial in Botswana will recruit as
many as 1,200 heterosexual men and women. The CDC expects its first
set of results by mid-next year, Smith said.

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And, yes, I fell of my chair when I read this too!  Even those who
post here in support of HIV medication admit that it's toxic and
deadly.

It's 'comforting' to know that after testing this new whim on monkeys
the first set of people carefully chosen for the trial is "young black
males who have sex with men."

And the supporters of the HIV=AIDS theory have the nerve to compare
those of us who don't believe their lies with Nazis.