Different & Same Old....

 

I was going to post about this article yesterday, but things happened.  It's from AmFAR & it's recognizes the current limits of HIV regimens, mostly ARTs.  It proposes the use of immunotherapy to extend the benefits of current meds.  It focused on broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) and an immune-stimulating agent (a TLR9 agonist).  This wasn't proposing a cure, but a step in a new direction for treating HIV.  Maybe, if this works, it could lead to a functional cure.

I haven't been doing well.  I'm just tired, detached &  ready just to let go.  This has been exhausting.  2026 is going to bring a lot changes to my assistance programs.  The orange asshats say it's for health.  They don't care about any poor person's well being.  They just get off on punching down & harming those who can't really fight back.  If every orange follower would just die, the world would be a better place.

My sister called.  The call itself was benign.  I guess she needed to touch base with me, so she could say did.  Between everything going one, the time of the year, the alleged holiday happening & governmental BS, I'm just over it.   That call just reminded me or how much of an afterthought I've always been to those people related to me.  If I wasn't that I was a bother or nuisance to them.  I have a hard time seeing my life being any worse if I'd never met any of my relatives. 

I didn't need to see 59, another holiday season or 2026.  There won't be anything for me.  My life will continue to descend into worse levels.  So yeah, I don't care about 2026.  It'll only be a worse version of 2025.

Sorry for the bummer, but do give the article a read.  It could be a new direction for HIV treatment.  Take care.

Cya...

Limits On Info...

I have a research based doctorate.  I understand people want to be compensated for their effort.  Still, a notable part of all research is little more than literature review & content analysis.  In other words, you're streamlining the bulk of the info into a more manageable piece, possibly exploring it from a specific perspective or theory.  There's nothing wrong with that.  It's a stage in all research.  So is giving your findings with support from your endeavors.

These researchers want praise, recognition, promotion, acknowledgment & of course compensation.

I get that, they've earned it.   But not just for stating the most innocuous, vague parts of their study in a 1,000 word abstract.   Often I come across potentially  interesting articles only to find out they're on pay sites like a professional journal.  These articles usually run from $1 - 10.   Occasionally, I manage to find a promotion allowing me to read an article. Or I find it somewhere else.  It's be so infrequent, that it might as well be never, that I have found such an article to be worth payment.

These articles that should be open to promote the fight against HIV most often come in 2 categories.  Costly, excessively brief  abstracts, requiring the purchase of an entire journal issue to see the complete piece.   Or a decent article with sound info.  Information that could benefit people living with & trying to combat HIV.   

I could understand limiting access to these pieces if they detailed proprietary research, methods or products, but they don't.  You can usually find more pertinent data on the matter in a Wikipedia article. There would be no loss of revenue or credit for the researcher.  Only a small loss of revenue,  for the journal.

Nice to see profits still taking precedence in the fight against HIV.

Cya...