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pretty much the entire WORLD's blood supply is tested now, multiple times, so there should be no more Authur Ashe's.
Or haemophiliacs......
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pretty much the entire WORLD's blood supply is tested now, multiple times, so there should be no more Authur Ashe's.
Missed in all this discussion I believe is the focus that if you oversell the risk of casual infection to the population at large (which Is what I believe was done, based on other articles as well), then you can more easily get funding for assistance. Right or wrong, I believe that's the case.
I suspect that there will be more rises in the AIDS problem, in the future.
HIV-1 can, and does, undergo mutation at a frightening high rate, thanks to a very error-prone reverse transcriptase that contains its DNA polymerase activity. With so many errors being generated, the DNA is constantly changing.
Due to this ever-changing threat, a cure isn't likely to be found, at least in our lifetimes, using conventional drug treatment. If I am proven wrong on this, then I will happily be eating those words.
It's not surprising, that various drug-resistant strains of HIV-1 are forming, and as they get more resistant, it falls upon the responsibility of the researchers of this world to come up with better drugs, and for people to educate themselves again.
In the meantime, though, numbers of AIDS-related deaths will continue to ebb and flow.
Out of curiousity, though, I do sometimes wonder, whether those falling numbers are due to an actual decrease in the number of infected individuals, or whether better detection methods have gotten rid of many a false positive?
A short time ago there was a story about how the studies showing 1 in4 teens have an STF was false and manipulated. Today on the Drudge Report homepage, is a story claiming 1 in 4 adults in NYC have herpes. I'm gonna be miles ahead of the curve and call shenanigans on that one now.
More than one in five Americans-45 million people-are infected with genital herpes (Fleming, 1997).
Now might be the time for New Yorkers to take advantage of the free condom campaign the city promotes. A new study by the city's Health Department found more than a quarter of adult residents are infected with the herpes virus.
According to the study, 26 percent of city residents have the virus that causes genital herpes, an incurable sexually-transmitted infection that can cause painful genital sores and can double a person's risk for HIV
Did I mistakenly take the bus back to the late 19th/early 20th century? While Africa is largely 3rd World, it doesn't make them "uncivilized."Not very well, although it is interesting that you call gay people names.
The fact is, AIDS is not the pandemic calamity we were told it was for a quarter century. In Africa, it is, but, in the civilized world, it is pretty easy to avoid, and those who do catch it, generally have their behaviors to blame.
The percentage of US population infected with HIV/AIDS is 0.7 per cent. There are approximately more than a million people in the United States suffering from the disease. Studies and research has shown that the reasons behind infection in the United States are primarily same sex male couples, heterosexual sex and the intravenous use of drugs by sharing between users. Of these three a major chunk of infections originates from sex between gay men. It is believed that nearly thirty five to forty thousand people get infected in America every year. Another discrepancy seen is that the major chunks of infected people are of African Americans descent. There is an advantage that people in western countries enjoy over those in the third world in relation to AIDS and that is access to medicine and medical facilities.
If I am raped by an infected person who did not wear protection, that's not my choice.
If I'm a health professional who is treating someone, and I am stuck by a needle, that wasn't a choice.
If I am a pro athlete or non-pro for that matter, and blood is spilled as it is on occation, and I contact it, did I choose to become infected?
To the bigots here, it does.Did I mistakenly take the bus back to the late 19th/early 20th century? While Africa is largely 3rd World, it doesn't make them "uncivilized."
JKS,
I would say that now, with the colonial powers gone, africa is the exact same as it was 200 years ago, but with guns instead of spears. Tribal warfare, ethnic cleansing, all the old evils are back, with a vengence.
To the bigots here, it does.
Ever been to Africa?hold the phone
i call africa uncivilized. ALL THE TIME
it aint cuz of color either
look at thier BEHAVIOR
SORRY
off tangeant, back on track, dang, that BuSh sure is evil isnt he?
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Ever been to Africa?
Last I looked, they had phones, and trains, and tv, and internet. Sounds civilised to me.
Of course, they also have poverty, gang warfare, civil warfare, piracy corruption, a ****ed up infastructure, and those wonderful Nigerian Lotteries.
Wait, which side of this argument am I on again? I'm so confused.
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