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Originally Posted by Esuohlim
I thought the fact that money cured AIDS was incredibly lame
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It makes sense though, if the point they were making was that HIV can now be treated effectively, but only if you have a lot of money for the medication. Which is absolutely no help to the people that really need the treatment.
The other related thing I think they were trying to get across was now that HIV can be treated, a lot of funding has been moved to cancer research despite many third-world countries desperately needing a cheap, effective HIV treatment.
Overall though, I'm not sure it was a particularly lampoon-worthy a subject. A lot of money still is being spent on HIV research and drugs are always expensive. There really isn't that much which can be done beyond continuing with the research and hoping that a more cost effective solution will turn up.