Thread: Ex-stripper with AIDS denied release

Originally Posted by Rainfall

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Lostandfound

AIDS meds are easily available in Thailand

a lot of people cannot afford them

Poor people are covered by that Thaksin scheme and get them for free. Over the counter they cost 800 Baht/month. They are cheap because the Thai government violated patents of Western corporations, and has them produced by a non-profit corporation. Thailand is the best place in the world for people with HIV. The name of this corporation is GPO, and they manufacture a wide range of drugs. For example Azythromycin. Made by Pfizer (Zithromax) it costs 590 Baht, by GPO 250 Baht in the pharmacies. Memorise the brand and ask for it. They also have a website.

Everything gets dramatized when HIV is the issue, as if death were imminent. 'Advanced AIDS', '75% of my life is gone', and other bullshit. 5 years on, all actors of the story are alive and well. The drugs pull people back whose immune system has shut down already, CD4 count nil. They remove all HI virae from the blood and sperma, all body fluids. A person on the drugs tests negative for HIV, and can't infect others. Even the side effects like degradation of the muscles are a thing of the past.

Azithromycin is an antibiotic, not anti retro viral. You pop 1.5 g when you get a dose and the little fella is good as new 24 hours later.

As far as I know the most popular anti retro viral cocktail of entacibine, effaverenz and tenofivir have been ripped off by the Thais and are now available to pretty much everyone for peanuts in Thailand.

There seems to be a problem in Thailand, in particular, of the stupid fokkers skipping doses or stopping meds when they feel a bit better (nothing to do with the Thai capacity for self delusion, I'm sure). This means that the most effective drug cocktails, developed at huge expense in the west and mostly paid for by taxpayer funded medicine are now becoming increasingly ineffective against resistant strains.

So western pharma will have to spend another truckload of cash developing new therapies that the Thai can rip off and then fuck up again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emtrici...ovir/efavirenz