Cure AIDS not AS.

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Funds generated by donation ec should definately be invested in education and support, as opposed to 'THE CURE.'

Yes, cure AIDS!

Acquired
Immuno
Defiency
Syndrome

Also invest all autism pro-cure money into research for:
OCD
Anxiety Disorder
PTSD
Bipolar Disorder
Panic Disorder

I suspect that a cure for AIDS will be very difficult, the HIV virus worms its way into the DNA of the human cells becuase it is a retrovirus and may be it can hide in the hosts DNA. You would need a HIV expert to say how well HIV can hide in this way, my worry is that by the time a person knows that they have HIV it might be too late to expunge the virus from their body.

One problem which Anna has not mentioned is the threat from within, people with AIDS are very prone to some forms of cancer which are not commonly seen in the normal healthy human with a decent immune system. So even if they fail to catch a infection they are at risk of the cancers.

I think that funding on AS should be increased but it should be spent with care, the "cure" sounds like a eugenics nightmare which should be resisted. I am sure that some things can be done to improve the quaility of life for those auties and aspies who are getting the worst deal right now.

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Diagnosed under the DSM5 rules with autism spectrum disorder, under DSM4 psychologist said would have been AS (299.80) but I suspect that I am somewhere between 299.80 and 299.00 (Autism) under DSM4.

Forget Aids... they need to sort out Viruses in general.

Cure the common cold and it will give you the insight you need to cure/prevent aids.

There is no cure THere will never be a cure. If there is, it would help to reduce AS symptoms, not change you completely.

Hmm... Being a virus IS part of what makes HIV so dangerous.

I hadn't thought about the cancers, but yeah, duh, pretty much. Kaposi's sarcoma is pretty much diagnostic of AIDS.

And AIDS dementia, which isn't an opportunistic infection but happens when your immune system messes with your nervous system.

I would like to see the US and its allies stop wasting nearly a Billion dollars a day killing people and spend that on research into a whole bunch of abnormalities. There is no need to discriminate funding there is plenty to go around we just have to stop wasting resources.

Cure both.

Only if it were cost-effective. If you could cure AIDS but it cost five million dollars per person, there wouldn't be a lot of people who'd actually get it. There wouldn't be enough resources to go around.