Software To Improve AIDS Survival? 97
Roland Piquepaille writes "There are more than 33 million people living with HIV worldwide. No cure or vaccine has been unveiled this week in Mexico during the International AIDS Conference. Still, European researchers have developed 'a predictive software system for HIV that could help extend the lives of victims of the killer disease.' The scientists working on the EuResist project have combined HIV databases in Italy, Sweden and Germany, creating what is probably the largest database on AIDS and HIV in the world. Armed with information about more than 18,000 patients, 64,000 therapies, and 240,000 viral mode measurements, the researchers have created new mathematical prediction models, which should soon be available to medical researchers and doctors all over the world."
Predicting mutations? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Education? (Score:5, Informative)
Many if not most of those countries that have the greatest AIDs infections rates have an cultural attitude against condoms, want a woman's vagina to be dry so that it's more pleasurable to the man (I don't get that one), and all in all, have patriarchal societies where women are second class citizens - if one at all.
There's also ignorance too.
We can develop the best drugs in the World and give them away but, I'm afraid, it may not have much of an effect in places like Africa.
Re:Education? (Score:3, Informative)
I said: "2/3 male aids cases are homosexual" as a pointer to anal sex. So rather than reading what you want to read maybe you need to generate a level of tolerance before you get in trouble again.
But yes I have several gay male friends and fear for their health due to this disease.
Re:A non-Education based way to "cut" AIDS (Score:2, Informative)
Surely it would just mean that it would take 70% longer for everyone to become infected ?
I remember watching a documentary once on AIDS, and one particular African guy who KNEW he had the disease but had embarked on a quest to hump every female that moved anyway.
With that kind of mentality, you are just prolonging the inevitable.
Education will not work with people that are uneducatable.
Prevention will not work in a country where there are a million other nasty ways to die (starvation, genocide, Rober Mugabe etc etc).
The sooner we accept that Africa is a lost cause the better ... but we're not allowed to say that are we, because the truth really does hurt.