Week 8 - Western Approaches to HIV/AIDS

I believe there is a genuine desire, on the part of the doctor's and scientists to find helpful medications and cures. I can see their frustration from this seemingly unbeatable problem. I don't know a lot about the drugs that are included in the "cocktail" but the immune boosters they take are also drugs. These antibiotics tend to be very cold in nature and damaging to the intestinal flora and fauna. This damage makes it much more difficult to fight of infection because we already have an internal pathogen, cold, and the food and fluids we take are not properly digested, further compromising our immunity. I think it would greatly benefit western treatments to be more conscious of diet and antibiotic "side-effects".

The more social and ethical questions of "who's disease is this?", gays drug users, poor africans is one the west may have created. This appears to be a disease that can infect almost anyone. So many people are infected that it's odd this disease, above cancer or depression or Parkinson's or multiple sclerosis, has become a social, religious, gender, sexual orientation, economic status -stigma. I am not sure what causes people to want to separate "you from me", perhaps fear or greed, but this one is global, more than any other disease in human history. It's time the countries with means made these drugs actually affordable, as in FREE!!!