I was going to comment on the fairly wide confidence intervals also. A few years back I listened to a presentation about statins, and the guy (who has a Ph.D. in biology of some specific discipline that I don't remember now) said that you have to treat 60 people to see one 'benefit' as classified by a reduction in a cardiac event that statins are claimed to reduce. But he said that all those 60 'treated' individuals are subject to the side effects of the statins.
I can't help but look at this research in the same light. We see them stratifying people according to adherence as if that's all that matter when taking these drugs. How they affect your health in 'non-target' ways is just as important. How many of these women over 12 years had decreasing bone density that will cause them long term problems as an example?
This is the problem with 'HIV' research, nothing else matters but reducing 'incidence'.
By the way, here's something related. A documentary called 'Medicating Normal. How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick' just showed up in my youtube feed, dropped a few days ago onto the platform.
Have you seen this??
"Removing HIV from cells with CRISPR?!? What could go wrong?
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68609297?utm_source=newsletters.tip.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=political-age-limits-north-dakota-may-try
I was going to comment on the fairly wide confidence intervals also. A few years back I listened to a presentation about statins, and the guy (who has a Ph.D. in biology of some specific discipline that I don't remember now) said that you have to treat 60 people to see one 'benefit' as classified by a reduction in a cardiac event that statins are claimed to reduce. But he said that all those 60 'treated' individuals are subject to the side effects of the statins.
I can't help but look at this research in the same light. We see them stratifying people according to adherence as if that's all that matter when taking these drugs. How they affect your health in 'non-target' ways is just as important. How many of these women over 12 years had decreasing bone density that will cause them long term problems as an example?
This is the problem with 'HIV' research, nothing else matters but reducing 'incidence'.
By the way, here's something related. A documentary called 'Medicating Normal. How Big Pharma Makes Healthy People Sick' just showed up in my youtube feed, dropped a few days ago onto the platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJs9lK8PIok