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Maybe it's just me being jaded after at least 15 years (or at least it feels like it) of the HIV cure "coming soon" and the personal impact this has had on my community and multiple friends (LGBT).

This article being written kinda bothers me? By the authors own admission we know almost nothing. We really just know it's safe but don't even know if anyone stopped taking their ART.

Sure it's great that we are not getting a setback from it being unsafe... but I am just tired of hearing about the false starts that time and time again turn out ineffective.

Like I said maybe I am just jaded here but something about this rubs me the wrong way.

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I'm kind of torn since I hate PR nonsense like this but I'm also glad that HIV research is still getting money and happening - you can't take for granted that there would be enough incentive for people to even keep trying in our current system

That is very valid, I guess I may have a certain view since HIV is not something that I need to read an article to be reminded of? It is basically a daily thought for me.

I should be clear that I am happy that the research is being done, its just this article isn't (unless I missed it) isn't even a PR piece for the company doing it? A company putting out the actual PR is perfectly valid and I think a standard practice.

The article is written in a very ambigious manner.

Lots of 'cure' mentions while admitting the treatment is not a cure. Trials run with ambigious results, and Excision is protecting the data until 2024.

Honestly not sure if I read an article at all. It reads like a 'keep alive' ping from an old space probe reporting back it's still alive status.

imo, progress usually can't be made without mistakes. There may be many 'coming soon' cures, but a lot will fail, some will cure other things than original disease, some will advance understanding of the disease and gradually, progress is made from different directions

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