Very dependent on locality. Mine requires a prescription for every refill, and I must continually meet certain risk criteria to qualify.

We are unaware of any situations where HIV+ doesn’t turn into AIDS without treatment.

But being HIV+ is simply having a virus, not actively dying. HIV+ status also never clears - later tests that are “negative” mean your viral load is undetectable, at which point you can no longer transmit HIV to others. Undetectable = Untransmissable.

FTA, it seems that a (very) small number of people develop effective antibodies againt HIV.

"These antibodies are very, very rare, but they can be found in blood samples from a small number of people living with HIV.

The vaccine causes the immune system to produce more of these "broadly neutralizing" antibodies.

That all makes sense. A couple things I’m still not clear on:

* If someone has a negative test after treatment, but that’s not counted as “cured”, does that imply it could (or maybe will) come back if treatment is stopped?

* What’s the importance of the distinction between HIV+ vs AIDS, from a public health or human perspective? We don’t talk about influenza+ vs “has the flu”, at least as far as I know. Does HIV+ carry less stigma than AIDS?

Thanks for your earlier answer. I know this specific infection has lots of difficult history. It’s hard to formulate my questions without sounding suspiciously close to a sea lion or something, but I sincerely want to know. And yes, I could google it but then it wouldn’t be an interesting conversation, or one others could read and learn from.

* If someone has a negative test after treatment, but that’s not counted as “cured”, does that imply it could (or maybe will) come back if treatment is stopped?

Yes. HIV+ patients require antiretroviral treatment for the remainder of their lives. Most are able to manage with a pill regimen. This is not to say it is cheap or side effect free, but most HIV+ people are able to live normal lives with outpatient support.

(To link it back, PrEP is the same drug used to treat; ex, emtricitabine + tenofovir. Dosage, schedule differs. Other antiretrovirals may be chosen.)

* What’s the importance of the distinction between HIV+ vs AIDS, from a public health or human perspective? We don’t talk about influenza+ vs “has the flu”, at least as far as I know. Does HIV+ carry less stigma than AIDS?

Public health does talk about Inflenza (and other viral positive) individuals. Public messaging is usually with the term “carrier” - but in jargon, this implies that the individual will likely mot develop the disease themself, and will remain asymptomatic, which is untrue for HIV. NCoV-19, recently in the public eye more than any other virus, has a lot of literature around positive tests vs disease.

1. What a freaking miracle. Growing up in the 80's, the notion was terrifying. I was straight and it was something my friends and I discussed. I can't imagine how awful it must've been for gay communities. Again, what a miracle.

2. OK, fair point.

Thanks for the info! I know HIV isn't exactly "no big deal" today, but seeing it go from "you're certain to die" to "it's annoying to have to take medicine forever" is still a wonder of modern science.

It’s for injuries that take place while you’re on the job. Chronic issues are difficult to prove.

It’s only a convention in the sense that the IANA is a convention: https://www.iana.org/assignments/iana-ipv4-special-registry/...

192.0.0.0/24, 10/8, 172.16/12, and various other subslices of 192/8 are reserved for local use and are not publicly routable.

Well, it’ll make it not cost $700

Insulin being expensive is the most weird and disturbing thing. It's just crazy. Don't they have Canada just in front of them to learn from their neighbors just how ridiculous this is?

I live in a city and the problems are:

1) sometimes it is noisy at night, usually because of people in cars, but sometimes because of people not in cars;

2) sometimes it takes longer than needed to walk somewhere, due to intersections

3) my house is not as big as I would like. (I think this applies to many people regardless of how big their house is.)

4) the busses are always late in winter

The article puts that percentage at 39%, which falls a bit short of “most” but is frighteningly high.

You can and should say the word “kill”.

It's a self-censorship habit of people who frequent TikTok, Youtube, and other platforms that shadowban or outright ban particular keywords. I think it's excessively obtuse euphemisms for pseudo-civility that George Carlin would've ripped to shreds.

Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Exterminate. Exterminate. Humans must die. Humans must die. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate. Exterminate.

Am I doing it right?

Why? 10uF is already pretty beastly, and the point is to dampen signal verses intermittent drops and drains, not power the backing device for any amount of time.

I was also a childhood lover of Castle and Vikings :)

Those books were captivating and I was really surprised when I showed up at College and met the source.