Comments on: HIV Becoming MORE Virulent? http://www.rawtop.com/blog/2009-04/hiv-becoming-more-virulent Nothing Personal... Just good, raw, gay sex... Sat, 04 Sep 2010 17:36:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Loadswapper http://www.rawtop.com/blog/2009-04/hiv-becoming-more-virulent/comment-page-1#comment-6057 Loadswapper Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:53:57 +0000 http://www.rawtop.com/blog/?p=702#comment-6057 Depends on how one defines virulent, I guess. From what I understand, when the virus mutates around a drug and becomes resistant to it, it becomes weaker in terms of destroying an immune system. So, using my case as an example, while it sucked that I had to go on meds pretty quickly as my immune system fell pretty quickly, my version of the virus is not resistant to any meds (yet). I'm sure there are exceptions to that rule, but so far in my admittedly not-necessarily-representative circle of poz friends, the guys with the most resistance issues seem to be progressing to AIDS the slowest, and vice versa. I do agree that introducing HAART changes everything though; just look at what antibacterial soap is doing, for example. Depends on how one defines virulent, I guess. From what I understand, when the virus mutates around a drug and becomes resistant to it, it becomes weaker in terms of destroying an immune system. So, using my case as an example, while it sucked that I had to go on meds pretty quickly as my immune system fell pretty quickly, my version of the virus is not resistant to any meds (yet). I’m sure there are exceptions to that rule, but so far in my admittedly not-necessarily-representative circle of poz friends, the guys with the most resistance issues seem to be progressing to AIDS the slowest, and vice versa.

I do agree that introducing HAART changes everything though; just look at what antibacterial soap is doing, for example.

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