A question was asked on here about 10 minutes ago, where a girl asked if AIDS was a behavioral disease. Unfortunately, many uninformed people said it was not, as some people get it from blood transfusions, infected spouses and parent, etc.
Well, just to set the record straight, every person in America who has gotten AIDS NOT from sex or drugs accounts for only 2% of AIDS cases! 2%!!
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#exposure
That's almost as silly as people saying abortions are not done for convenience, when only 7% of abortions are done for any other reason.
I am sure that 2% of the men under Hitler's regime were good people. Does that mean all Nazi's were good people?
Can someone explain this to me? What date did we decide that 2% of a population adequately represents the whole?
And can SOMEONE tell me why AIDS is not a behavioral disease? The numbers say otherwise!
2007-12-12 03:48:09 · 24 answers · asked by Free Thinker A.R.T. ††† 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Out of 1 million AIDS cases in the US, only 20,000 have gotten it from something other than risky sex or drugs, but yet it isn't a behavioral disease.
What WOULD make it a behavioral disease? If a million people had it, and only 10 people got it from blood transfusions? What percentage of victims have to get it on their own accord for it not to be a behavioral disease? I would think 98% would be enough, but apparently I am mistaken.
2007-12-12 03:51:45 · update #1
I am blaming people who make AIDS patients out to be victims, even though 98% of them were in control of their own destiny.
2007-12-12 03:54:14 · update #2
I agree with you. I also believe that many of these problems stem from undereducation.
People need to finish their basic education. get AIDS education, get job skill education.
USE YOUR HEAD!!! (not you) AIDS is avoidable in most cases!!!
2007-12-12 03:53:32 · answer #1 · answered by itsallgood 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋
It is NOT a behavioral disease because it is a VIRUS.
This would be like saying "all contagious diseases are behavioral. Getting the flu, the common cold, malaria, rabies, etc. is behavioral because it is only those who go out and expose themselves get sick. All the old folks who die of pneumonia every day are exhibiting bad behavior because they go outside or have company that spreads a virus or bacteria that will make them sick and die." Come on folks - get real.
There are things that one can do to limit exposure and protect yourself and others, these would be 'behavioral' actions. And I do agree that there are people out there who care less for their health then others - both straight and gay - and are less likely to take precautions to protect themselves and their partner, but I have actually witnessed this more in the straight community than in the GLBT community. The GLBT community is VERY aware and do take precautions needed to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Drug addiction is a behavioral issue. Some see it as a disease, some don't. However, it is not a virus, it is a choice. Some folks have a harder time overcoming this and some claim to have a genetic or neurological tie to the addiction - but it is still a choice.
Getting HIV/AIDS is not a choice - it is an indiscriminate VIRUS.
A nurse doing blood tests has never caught drug addiction from an accidental needle stick.
2007-12-12 06:41:37 · answer #2 · answered by fotofarie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Amazing to me is the fact that so many refuse to grasp the concept that one cannot 'catch' AIDS you have to actually do something to acquire it. That is enormously important. While having sexual relations may be a natural function normal heterosexual people will not acquire it if they are not promiscuous. Even those who are promiscuous and get it are most likely receiving the disease indirectly from some infected homosexual further up the promiscuity line.
Even drug addicts originally got aids from homosexuals. It was unbridled, promiscuous male homosexuals that first acquired it and then spread it to everyone else who has it.
The only reason anyone refuses to acknowledge this important fact is political correctness. I wonder, how many know that AIDS was not originally called AIDS? When men first started showing up in doctors' offices with all kinds of diseases that most doctors never dealt with before and it was tied to an immune deficiency, the fist name for it was:
GRID which stood for Gay Related Immunity Disorder.
Bowing to political pressure from many homosexual groups the American Medical Association agreed to change the name of the disease to Aquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
There is absolutely no doubt about it. This pandemic was caused by indiscriminate male homosexual activity. Everyone who has it now, everyone who gets it in the future all are part of the same chain.
People who do not have AIDS and marry other people who do not have AIDS and remain monogomous will never get AIDS. People who engage in sex with multiple partners have a much better chance of aquiring it. As far as condoms go, just read the package. They do not garantee they will protect you from AIDS.
So, I tend to agree with you, sir.
Merry Christmas!
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2007-12-12 04:20:11 · answer #3 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You have some point but i don't really agree with you because one irresponsible person can infect so many. We've seen it time and time again one sits in a relationship Comfortablynot knowing what the other partner is getting up to. Now are you prepared to blame the other victim who got it by just being faithful and trusting.
When it comes to HIV/AIDS there are a lot of factors coming into it than reading statics.
2007-12-12 04:02:18 · answer #4 · answered by SMB 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps most infectious diseases are in part caused by people's behavior.
When the Flu is going around, most people don't wear masks to cover their noses and mouths. People often knowingly don't take any precautions and get infected as a result.
A lot of food poisoning cases are due to careless food preparation and storage.
Some parents refuse to vaccinate their children against common infectious diseases. And some of these children get sick as a result.
Perhaps the only difference between HIV infection and other types of infections is that HIV often involves sexual behavior, as opposed to other types of behavior. And when people are in some way prejudiced in their views of sexual behavior. Then their prejudice includes infectious diseases that are associated with sexual behavior too.
2007-12-12 04:01:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I'd like to know WHY this is such a big, fat, hairy deal. The FACT is that AIDS is a blood disease. That pretty much tells the whole story.
Avoid behaviors that bring you into contact with blood, and you will not get AIDS.
Education is the key to stopping this disease, but some people are still going to make stupid decisions and get AIDS. Passing judgement on the behaviors that get them there will only muddy the waters.
Can we move on to politics, please?
2007-12-12 03:57:55 · answer #6 · answered by cornbread_oracle 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Everything in life can be attributed to behavior depending on how you wish to view the situation.
Someones behavior somewhere in the chain of events always results in the outcome, no matter what it is.
In reality AIDS probably emerged as a result of eating monkeys rather than from sexual intercourse, and it can be spread more ways than just immorality. But to tell exactly every way that could and does happen, would cause mass hysteria. And we have enough of that about terrorists.
By the way, note what the ** means after High-risk heterosexual contact.
This means people having sex with people that they knew were high risk. There is no mention of 24-27% of the other population that is unaware that they have it. There is also no mention of non-high risk hetrosexual transmission factors.
if you do not understand how to read studies on particular issues, please don't try to interpret them.
2007-12-12 03:53:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
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2016-10-11 03:26:30 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aids is caused by a virus.
If only stupidity were, too. We could vaccinate you before you could type.
The same people who rail about "risky behavior" and "them durn home-sexshuls" also rail against sex education and free condoms. The strongest weapon against AIDS is information, yet you won't let our kids have it, for fear that they might enter into a non-marital union. Just like you did.
A disease doesn't care if you are a hemophiliac, if you are uneducated, if you are straight, or if you are gay. It just wants to replicate.
2007-12-12 04:04:06 · answer #9 · answered by Schmorgen 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
By your reasoning, it seems to me then that any infectious disease (the flu for example) would be behavioral because it's contracted by being around people. So if you changed your behavior to never be around people, then you wouldn't get the flu. So if you changed your behavior and never had sex, you'd never get AIDS. I guess that would be true, but I'm not sure what you're getting at.
2007-12-12 03:59:10 · answer #10 · answered by contrarycrow 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The disease as such is not behavioral. The behavior leading up to getting it is the issue.
2007-12-12 03:54:40 · answer #11 · answered by Good Answers 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋