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And simultaneously defunding it! We are at the shittiest confluence…

We all know that it'll be banned in the US because they're a pro-measles party, there's no way they want to end The Gay Disease. We can't be happy because we know we won't actually end AIDS without ending this regime first.

YES! I was starting to think that I hallucinated this the other day. WTF people.!?! Shite, use Epstein as a segue if you have to--it can be framed as more possible crap he exposed survivors to (which has the positive of reinforcing that AIDS is a disease that hits everyone).

Person with HIV here (diagnosed 1998, doing fine on treatment). The fact that some people have been ‘cured’ of HIV (not AIDS, these are different things) is great but this does not mean we have a cure that will work for all. Treatment works and will prevent AIDS. Fight for secure access for all.

This is what blew my admittedly fragile mind... ...and very self-referential to boot!

This is both awesome and it took 40ish years of research...probs current know nothings crowd not gonna be real keen on pointing that out as they decimate this kind of research across the board..

It's great news obviously, but "evidence is growing" is not the same as "we found a cure"

Probably because a lot of politicians still cling to the belief that AIDS was divine punishment...

Yes! This is very remarkable!

I think everyone is afraid if we talk about it too much, RFK Jr will kill it

I agree! I think this is a victim of recency bias. Back in the 80’s we thought everyone was going to die. Then treatments were developed, now we are on the precipice of a f-ing cure?! Science is amazing.

This is insane!

I honestly genuinely just assumed this was never going to happen. I mean, I figured I wouldn't see it being fully managed in my lifetime (clearly we passed that), but I heard that a cure was just 'never going to be possible'. This is pretty..nice.

sex ed in middle school in the early 00s they were still scaring us with it. And now, 25 years later, it's a pretty manageable chronic health condition.

He saved my life, and if I have anything to say about it that'll cost him his

For it to go from "don't have sex bc you will literally die" to "take this pill and live an otherwise normal life," well within a lifetime, is just *bonkers*.

I’m of the micro generation that got the full AIDS experience - I remember seeing it in the headlines as a child, came of age at the peak of safe sex messaging, lost people I loved dearly. It was like a curse upon the best & most vibrant among us. My kids will never know this world & I’m so glad.

And made a pretty good dent on viruses generally in the process.

hiv is taking so many Ls lately

TERRIFYING

There were people who thought it was going to be the next Great Plague, and some of them were not unhinged either.

I feel like every year in school there was at least one class that spent time doing AIDS debunking like “you can’t get AIDS from riding in an elevator with the infected”, just borderline zombie movie shit

Next epidemic will be the apocalypse In Brin's novel The Postman, the end of civilization comes after a Nazi demagogue takes control of the US government and then a viral pandemic hits. I think about that sometimes for no particular reason.

I'm old enough that I remember when Magic Johnson told us he was HIV+ and we all figured he'd be dead in a couple years. 30+ years ago, HIV+ really was essentially a death sentence. The whole "safe sex" movement existed 99% due to HIV+.

Looking back at my own high school and college experience, both in formal sex-ed and conversations about sex, it feels like a totally different world. We went from "death sentence" to "treatable w/ a lifetime of very unpleasant drugs" to "treatable w/ okay drugs" to "effectively cured" in ~25 years.

I think we are around the same age and I realize that I’m still in disbelief and lowkey afraid to celebrate. But it’s a HUGE deal

I met someone recently who is HIV Positive, and was shocked by own ignorance when they explained that with access to the right care it is now an entirely manageable condition.

I remember the early days and how the old guard medical people were “eh, this’ll be easy, it’s just another virus” and woosh was that wrong.

YES like I remember when this was a horrifying death sentence with barely even proper palliative care. It's already amazing to me that it's now more or less a chronic, manageable condition, if a person has access to the right therapies. A cure? Absolutely mind-bending.

my uncle lost his two long term partners to AIDS so we saw it first hand in our family. thankfully, and somewhat magically, he never got it.

Yep

Put the scientists back to work, dammit!! Trump is indirectly killing people.

Its a miracle now. It's mind boggling to me that after nearly 3 generations (later Boomer, X, and Millennials) of HIV/AIDS education that it spreads like it does in the Western world. And in Africa and Asia it's incredibly frightening.

In 1985 when I started working as a CNA, HIV was a death sentence. HIV+ eventually became a chronic treatable illness thanks to research. Now it can be cured. It's amazing.

While true, the hype around Ozempic is not warranted. It isn't and shouldn't be treated like a casual weight loss drug as the hype makes it out to be. I'm secure in my position that a cure for AIDS is more deserving of that hype.

There really aren't things I can celebrate anymore. Those times seem to be behind us.

lesbians are pretty much untouched by AIDS which means that God must dig lesbians which proves that God is a man.

Hail Satan!!

Seems like he already did!

O don't know how different this is, but here in Brazil we already have treatment to make AIDS undetectable for a while. But anyway, very good news.

Help me understand the headline…shouldn’t it be “This Could Be the First Widespread Cure for HIV In Children”?

I think folks may be trying to keep this quiet out of fear that RFK Jr. will learn about it and immediately attempt to destroy it.

Can't help but feel like RFK or some big pharma company is gonna fuck this up in some way, good things just don't feel possible anymore.

📌

Someday we’re unironically going to have the “NyQuil flu and aids” pill from family guy LMAO

We should absolutely be making a bigger deal about finding a cure for AIDS.In a normal world,people would be shouting this from roof tops.Sadly, these are not normal times.We are being assaulted daily by the breakdown of our Democracy and cannot look away, even for momentous,life saving achievements

I tried really hard to make a big deal of it, but the replies I got were so parochial (referring to its potential US availability) and depressing ("it will never get to people in need"), I was really discouraged.

I follow Chise, who is a microbiologist for Moderna, and worked on the Covid vaccine. She keeps us to date, and popped up right after you on my feed:

The problem is you had to be aware of this shit in the nineties when it was absolutely a fucking death sentence

Because if they cured it, they couldn't use it as a fear-mongering tactic to keep stupid people homophobic.

I went to so many funerals of young people (mostly gay men) in the 1980s and 1990s there were months where I had a funeral of a friend or colleague every weekend

Yeah we lost a lot of folks. 💔💔💔 I'm so grateful we have gotten to where we are now

The more attention it gets the more likely it is to be undermined by the various right-wing ghouls in power who see it as God's wrath on sinners and perverts

The Mississippi Baby is referenced in the article of course. There is hope! But this may be “infants can buy a couple years off medication with intensive therapy to start” more so than “infants can be cured”

Woah!!

Man, growing up in the 1980s, it seemed impossible... we should be partying in the streets. Marking it with a day of celebration and solemn remembrance.