‘HIV-ending’ drug could be made for just $25 per patient a year, say researchers
(www.theguardian.com)
Syphilis brought on Victorianism and centuries of sexual and societal repression. Antibiotics and birth control then led to the more liberal politics we saw in the 1960s and 70s. Likewise I'm convinced that AIDS had been a major contributor to the resurgence in conservativism in the last 40 years or so. My hope is that an end to HIV will help swing the pendulum back in the other direction.