Gene Therapy and HIV

I read an interesting article in New Scientist this week. It seems they’re showing promising results with a new HIV treatment. I wonder if in the near future we’ll look back and be astonished that people actually used to die from HIV.

newscientist.com/article/mg2 … n-hiv.html

That’s very interesting, but it will be WAY too expensive for most HIV paitients. At least, it will in the States.

It’s not so relatively expensive if it offers a cure and prevents complications. But yes it will be very expensive up front. I read about this before, I’m not sure if it can help all patients or just a subset. If the treatment can be used successfully for HIV it can be adapted to other diseases such as cancer treatment.