planet. I'm still not so sure that I was wrong in that feeling. Look at what is going on in Africa..in other 3rd world countries...at how expensive it is to keep someone alive with HIV. People mistake the terms curable with manageable all the time. AIDS is manageable but at what price (non monetary) to the individual.
People don't seem to listen to any advice about safe sex..especially the north american straight population. Given the lack of what medicine has been able to do in the past 25 years--do you see any genuine hope of stopping this crisis?
2007-02-11 17:32:48 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
i'm not sure that there is any hope of stopping this. it is like a runaway train with no brakes. it seems that no matter what we teach about safe sex goes in one ear and out the other. in the third world countries the people are doing their best to put food in their mouths and cannot afford condoms. so maybe when we send food over there we should send condoms as well. the other problem in the third world countries is that alot of those civilizations condemn the use of condoms through their religion, stating that it is not natural. as far as the straight community in the rest of the world, there is this thing in the back of their minds that tells them that if they are not gay then they won't get it. it needs to be made clear that this disease does not discriminate. although it has been ponded into peoples head something has to change. the message just isn't getting accross. as far as the gay community i am very upset at all the porn industries that are promoting barebacking as if it was cool. it is very irresponsible and harmful. and to all the gay people out there that have unprotected sex, shame on you. we have been the target of this disease and have worked very hard to change peoples ways to keep us healthy and strong and prove to the rest of the world that it is not our fault and here you go trying to ***** it all up. this disease has destroyed so many lives and when it first started back in the '80's so many of died from it. the ones left behind to pick up the pieces have worked very hard to spread the word of the person(s) they have lost and to use protection. and now we have these kids that were just born or not even born yet that do not know anything about those days. the days of the beginning. i think it should be made mandatory for all movies and news releases and documentaries on hiv/ aids and the way it affects people to be watched in our high schools and to be taught that it can happen to anyone. so the saying should be "if you don't want athletes foot, wear a sock. if you don't want aids wear c.ock sock."
2007-02-11 18:05:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister used to work with AIDS patients & there is some sort of cocktail that is given but it's not a cure. It just trys to prolong HIV positive people from getting full blown AIDS. What I never understood is why people always assumed that gay people got AIDS. At a hospital in my old state that helped HIV/AIDS patients only 2% were gay. The other 98% were drug users or heterosexual couples that infected their partners. People should really research this disease before they assume it's a "GAY" disease. I'm hoping that in 25 years AIDS will be like a STD that you can take antibiotics for
2007-02-11 18:18:35 · answer #2 · answered by gitsliveon24 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To assume because of a persons looks that you can tell if they may have AIDS is just the attitude that keeps on spreading it. AIDS was just the precurser of some of the terrible deseases that are amoung us today. Something like bird flu is very much more easily spread. MRSA is almost spread by touch and most of the world doesn't know what it is.
But the human race is terribly resilient. We've survived worse disasters in the past and will survive these too.
2007-02-11 18:08:22 · answer #3 · answered by San Diego Art Nut 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Look at the numbers that that Black Plague killed off...Some scientists say as many as 60% of the world population. People were truly ignorant of how it was spread, what could prevent it or how to properly treat it. But somehow human beings still survived.
I do not believe it will wipe everyone out at all, but I do believe that there are many more deaths to occur before it truly gets under control.
2007-02-11 17:56:25 · answer #4 · answered by DEATH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Man will survive, but one day something like aids will wipe out 80 to 90 % of the world population, but still man will survive.
2007-02-11 17:45:29 · answer #5 · answered by Johnny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. It can happen, and it can happen in our lifetime. I am bouyed by the huge donation by the Gates Foundation. The only concern is the need for greater education for HETEROSEXUALS, and that it should be emphasised that it is NOT a GAY DISEASE. Although organised religions are doing enormouse damage to the Safe Sex cause by promoting abstinence in African Countries, and their continual lack of acknowledgement of the magnitude of the problem.
2007-02-11 19:22:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 00:11:19 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
aids is a big deal at my workplace. i wont work on anyone that i suspect has aids for risk of spreading it... i actually have them sign a waiver saying they dont have it, an i still ocasionally turn someone away because they look weakend by some kind of disease an being homosexual at the same time. lucky it doesnt happen often
2007-02-11 17:42:22 · answer #8 · answered by peeps you 4 · 1⤊ 7⤋