Word: cure
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...helping lift a death sentence--for a few years at least, and perhaps longer--on tens of thousands of AIDS sufferers, and for pioneering the treatment that might, just might, lead to a cure, David Da-i Ho, M.D., is TIME's Man of the Year...
Eliminated. Just a few months ago, no one in the AIDS community and no reputable scientist would presume to imagine such a thing. Journalists, activists and researchers peppered Ho with questions at the podium. Had he found the cure? Could people stop worrying about AIDS? Could they throw away their condoms...
...sounds so hopeful. Why don't scientists say at the very least that they're close to the cure? For the same reason that Ho did not promise the crowd in Vancouver that he could eliminate HIV from people in the later stages of the infection. Researchers know that after years of infection, there isn't a hiding place in the body that the virus hasn't penetrated. A cure must do much more than clear HIV from the bloodstream. It must remove the virus from the lymph nodes, the brain, the spinal fluid, the male's testes and everywhere...
...illness is low on her list of priorities. In a good week, when she gets paid to give talks about AIDS to employees of the local railway company, she manages to scrimp enough to buy a palliative for her recurrent diarrhea or a dose of the latest herbal AIDS "cure." But even those she considers luxuries. "We are dying because we don't have medicines," she says. "I heard that there are new treatments. But I cannot afford them...
That is because those pushing hardest for AIDS research are Westerners who already have HIV, says the U.N.'s Piot. "Their primary concern is to find a cure," he says. "The same pressure hasn't been there for healthy people from the developing world." Private drug companies, for their part, have been disinclined to spend heavily on vaccine development because vaccines are generally less profitable. Piot explains, "In most countries, vaccines are purchased by governments, not by individuals. Taxpayers are footing the bill, which keeps prices down." The same is not true of therapeutics. According to a report...