[Flipside]

Ok, last one, not quite sure what's going on here, looks like a drug was continued in use in experiments in Africa despite the fact the Doctors own team was telling him that there were long term effects.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20041215/ap_on_he_me/aids_drug


Tramont wrote in 2003 e-mails that he reopened the clinics because he didn't want NIH "perceived as bureaucratic but rather thoughtful and reasonable" and that it was important to encourage Africans' fight against AIDS "especially when the president is about to visit them."

That line concerns me.

I'm not too certain what the knock-on effects of long term resistance would be, obviously it means this drug may have a short term usage span, but surely that's better than nothing till something else comes along?

[Liberator]

Originally posted by Flipside
...surely that's better than nothing till something else comes along?

The problem is that it would likely cause the virus to become resistant to the entire method that scientists have been using to develop other treatments.