What do you think are the top STD research candidates? HIV seems to be getting most of the press and most of the dollars these days, but what about other diseases like HPV and HSV? Should more time and money be spent on these or other diseases? While HIV is perhaps more life-threatening in the long run, do other diseases that are more contagious and more common cause more of an impact on society in general?
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Re: Where should the money go? (a.k.a. Top research candidates?)
Mon, October 23, 2006 - 10:36 AMI don't work in STD research but I think the field's interesting.
The sense I get about HSV from healthworkers is that it's more of a nuisance than anything else, although I'd think they'd be more concerned about it since I'd imagine its prevalence greatly increases the transmission rates of all other STDs.
For HPV, I'm thinking that research interest will dwindle now that (as of 2006, almost three years after you started this thread) some effective vaccines are out, conceivably making the virus family and the cancer it can cause less of a public health problem.
There are probably some good papers on this topic out there somewhere. If I find them and I think they'd be relevant, I'll try to remember to come back here and post something about them, like links to their abstracts or what have you.
