I’m dealing with the rhetoric of using the HIV virus as a vector in gene therapy, with special considerations of using HIV to combat HIV.

I am going to give a history of gene therapy, problems facing gene therapy and how it is proceeding today. Then I’m going to introduce the idea of using HIV as a vector, and I’m going to give a historical account of using HIV – both to treat HIV and other conditions. Then I’m going to talk about the problems of using HIV as a vector, and how this is referenced through some texts, and I’m going to give some analysis using the idea of a pharmacon (both poison and remedy). I’m also going to discuss the ‘discipline-ing’ of HIV and how you overcome the problems rhetorically. I am thinking of giving a more theoretical approach also – of encounter vs. containment, and perhaps offer a different model of thinking about disease.

This is a link for a company that deals in using HIV as a vector for treating HIV.
http://www.oxfordbiomedica.co.uk/index.html