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...must rally round to break it. These countries are too poor to doctor themselves. The drugs that could begin to break the cycle will not be available here until global pharmaceutical companies find ways to provide them inexpensively. The health-care systems required to prescribe and monitor complicated triple-cocktail regimens won't exist unless rich countries help foot the bill. If there is ever to be a vaccine, the West will have to finance its discovery and provide it to the poor. The cure for this epidemic is not national but international...
Life-extending drugs are out there. Wealthy countries use multidrug-cocktail therapies that transform AIDS from certain killer to chronic illness and reduce its spread by making the infected less contagious. The people you just read about could stop dying if they too had access to the drugs...
...both (a guy in a football uniform runs through a fast-food drive-thru lane, "intercepts" somebody's bagged meal, spikes it and does an end-zone dance). But besides the self-effacing title, the show is at heart about self-flagellation. When Knoxville becomes a human "poo cocktail" in the inverted portable toilet, the joke is that someone would want to do this to himself. Likewise, Comedy Central's paleo-andro variety series The Man Show treats women as sex objects--they jump half-naked on trampolines in its closing credits--while implying that men are morons...
...blame them? There was, after all, a new drug "cocktail" in town, and with assiduous self-medication, HIV-positive patients could now live virtually symptom-free for years. Everyone who could afford it was shoveling back the expensive combinations of drugs, and the side effects ranged from unpleasant to downright awful. But it sure as heck beat AIDS...
...problem, of course, is that no cocktail has ever beaten AIDS. And now, doctors and epidemiologists fear, the availability of potent drug cocktails have lulled many in the highest-risk populations, which now include both gay men and heterosexual men and women of color, into a false sense of security. Since 1997, for example, the rate of HIV infections in San Francisco's gay male population has more than doubled, a trend scientists fear is duplicating itself in other cities. New studies indicate that as many as one in 50 black men in the U.S. is infected with the virus...