How will we combat AIDS
without animal experimentation?
Over the last 20 years, billions have been spent
fruitlessly trying to infect animals with AIDS.
Given the inability to produce an adequate animal
model, it is foolish to assume that animal experimentation
will lead us to a cure. Many in the AIDS community
- with their lives on the line - actively demonstrate
against animal experiments as a waste of precious
time and money.[15]
Blood from those infected with HIV remains our
most illuminating research material to date.
Humans who do not progress from HIV to AIDS offer
excellent insight to possible ways of countermanding
the disease. [16]
Through epidemiology and in vitro research,
scientists have already isolated the human gene
believed responsible for their immunity.[17]
Though proponents of animal testing claim AZT
and other preventative medications for AIDS were
developed through animal research, existing human
data and computers were in fact responsible.
[18]
AIDS kills humans at the cellular level, so
that is where it needs to be studied. Mindlessly
investing valuable research funding in animal
experiments only keeps AIDS patients ill.[19-22]
Aidsvax was tested on 8,000 high-risk volunteers
because it protected chimpanzees from HIV infection.
Unfortunately for the volunteers, it afforded
them no protection whatsoever.
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