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- Joey67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Well... I'm gay and have been HIV+ for ten years now... so unfortunately... I guess I fall into the stereotype. But... if I recall, the most rapidly growing HIV+ population is heterosexual (I believe among woman... but I may be mistaken). One of the biggest reasons for this is exactly your type of thinking HarryBauzonia. So many people think so long as they're straight, not doing IV drugs, or sleeping with prostitutes, they can't contract the virus. If you're in a committed relationship and both you and your partner have been tested for HIV (probably at least two tests over a six month period) and you both stay faithful, then you're probably okay. The fact is... most heterosexual men and women who are active with multiple partners are never tested. There are tons of people out there that are HIV+ that will never know until they develop symptoms... and that can sometimes be up to ten years. In the meantime they're exposing everybody they sleep with to the virus... and the longer they have it without treatment, the more virus they carry in their system... making it easier to infect someone else.
- JohnnySoftware, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4The word "won't" should be qualified as "probably won't".
1. People have been infected with HIV from blood transfusions in US, France, and no doubt elsewhere. The blood supply was not being screened for that in the 1980s, despite awareness that it was a blood borne disease. Theoretically, it could still happen either by accident, gray market blood sales, or in countries that still do not screen blood for AIDS. Lots of people who need frequent blood transfusions, even grade school kids, got infected from blood they received.
2. There have been repeated reports of health workers reusing disposable needles in Eastern Europe, and not all that long ago, either. In the 1990s, a foreign-trained healthcare worker in NYC reused disposable needles when doing innoculations of employees at a major US media company. That worker did a number with the same syringe, just wiping the outside of the needle with alcohol and then getting the next person - before someone complained and the worker was stopped.
3. Organs and tissue have very recently been discovered to be illegally harvested en masse from the NY/NJ area and resold to unsuspecting patients throughout the US. Some are known to have been from cancer patients. It is not inconceivable some may have been carrying HIV. Infections of the dead "donors" were being ignored by the black market harvester, and even the dead people themselves might never have been aware that they had HIV if they were not tested.
4. A girl in Estonia, which has a rampant heroin problem, was pricked when she was using a restroom at a gas station. She had been stuck by a discarded syringe. The needle was tested and found to be infected with HIV. She subsequently developed the disease. She had been infected by that needle.
5. Healthcare workers have accidentally been infected with AIDS while drawing and/or doing tests on hospital patients' blood.
6. Many people still have not been tested for HIV. Even in the US.
7. Theoretically, someone might get tested for HIV and get a wrong result. They might get a false negative. More care is probably taken with HIV testing than other diagnostic tests. But anyone who says that all medical tests done on blood work are 100% accurate every single time is lying.
Once you are infected, it does not matter how you are infected - you can spread it to a partner. So it is quite possible in a number of ways for a person to get HIV and spread it to a partner, even though they are monogamous and the first partner did not aquire it through infidelity.
Being careful and cautious help but they are not an ironclad garranty. People cannot completely avoid all contact with healthcare and an environment they share with other people. That is exactly how a lot of people have gotten infected - just not most people. So many people are carrying HIV and AIDS at this point that these unfortunate incidents are not that rare.
The virus is the enemy, not simply the most risky behaviors. Blood gets around. - nightwing2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh well...
At least they're testing on models, not normal people.
I would think that the anorexia might interfere with normal metabolism and invalidate the results, though? - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I agree with everything you say, except about "how I think".
AIDS is a problem and is primarily spread because of promiscuity. Homosexuals who stick with one uninfected partner won't get AIDS. Period. The AIDS problem in Africa is primarily occuring in heterosexuals, and it's because of rampant promiscuity.
I'm sorry you're HIV positive. I've had to deal with it myself when my favorite cousin suffered and died from it progressing into AIDS. It was pretty difficult to watch. The music director at my church also has full-blown AIDS and won't be around much longer.
That's why I take such a hard stand against the behaviors that cause people to get infected. It's because so many people, myself included, suffer when someone gets AIDS.
I hope you can understand that. - pegisys, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I hope that is sarcasm, I hope you are not that stupid to think that the only way you would get aids is from "gays and street meat"
for all you know your wife could cheat on you, get infected, and then infect you - priegog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah, don't be so fast to dismiss some piece of information as useless, small as it may be. It'd be like saying "Insulin bind to and opens up GLUT-4 proteins, but I don't see how this could lead to a treatment to diabetes" ... Come on!
- PhonicUK, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6So research IS being done into HIV/AIDS, last I heard the money grabbing pharmaceutical companies weren't interested because theres no money to be made in africa and the best thing was to just write them off...
- abandonnship, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Even though this one gene may not hold the answers to a therapy, I feel it's still important to try and understand what it does. There could be a human analogue... it's just a starting place.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's a great way to make money for them because the sufferes stay alive taking pills for years. So they are doing research
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What a dumb statement. You sicken me. Prevention helps, but doesn't eliminate risk.
- generator, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Will it help with HIV dementia too?
http://www.HIV-Testing.org - GET ANON FDA TEST
http://www.HIVforum.com - AIDS FORUMS
http://www.AIDSchat.org - HIV CHAT SUPPORT - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I work with HIV every day, and recently attended CROI (Conference for HIV) here in my hometown in Denver, CO...
This is old news. May be new to the comon folk, but people in the field have known about this for quite some time...
I believe 10% of AIDS patients develop Dementia. - Joey67, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1HarryB... my comment regarding the way you think was based on your comment... "I choose not to have sex with gays and street meat". In your last comment, even you say... "Homosexuals who stick with one uninfected partner won't get AIDS. Period."... Had you expressed yourself the first time like you did in your second comment, I wouldn't have been as defensive.
- priegog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Actually, Harry, the only one here with irrational hatred here is you. You are terribly wrong if you seriously think 99% of people who have AIDS are gay, or got it that way. And what is that about you controlling yourself? what do you exactly mean? Did you not have sex with your wife (or ANY other girl, for that matter) before marrying her? Oh, you meant you refrain yourself from having sex with OTHER women just now that your married? Gee, let's build a statue of you for your decency
- ccran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The most highly correlative behavior for AIDS, even among gays, is...wait for it...drug use.
I could go on and on, but if you really care about people suffering look here:
http://www.reviewingaids.org/awiki/index.php/Main_Page - ccran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeay, it's only 62% gay. Unless, of course, you happen to be in Africa. Then it is equal opportunity. Interesting disease that has different epidemiological statistics on different continents...hmmm.
- IQ70, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2SIV infects microglia in monkeys and induces CCL5 gene, which causes neurodegeneration.
There is more chance of a meteorite hitting the earth tomorrow than this piece of information leading to creation of a new therapeutic intervention ever. - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Not the only way, just the way 99% of people get it. The blood supply is pretty stringently tested, and I'm already born so I can't get it from my parents.
And exactly what sickens you? The fact that I can control myself perhaps? Maybe it bothers you that my wife and I only have sex with each other? Do you have some deep hatred of people who choose to live normally and decently? I'd really like an answer. - HarryBauzonia, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Correct. It's the part of the brain that says "I choose not to have sex with gays and street meat". It's kept me immune for years now.
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