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Do You Worry About Getting HIV?
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Back in the 1980's there was only about 4 TV Channels and two of them carried really powerful adverts warning people about AIDS and HIV and unprotected Sex
Now these days there's over 200 channels on Sky TV, Freeview, etc and hardly any such adverts to warn people
I'm quite shocked at how many people I know have had one night stands with someone they don't know their sexual history of without a condom.
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=227
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/africa/03/aids_debate/html/default.stm
http://www.avert.org/aidsfaqs.htm
We just had world Aids days on 1st Dec and it hardly got much coverage in the media .. if it hadn't been on the front screen of Google I wouldnt have even known.
According to the Population Reference Bureau, these are the countries with the highest rate of AIDS among their populations, along with the percent of the population afflicted...
1. Swaziland - 33.4%
2. Botswana - 24.1%
3. Lesotho - 23.2%
4. Zimbabwe - 20.1%
5. Namibia - 19.6%
6. South Africa - 18.8%
7. Zambia - 17.0%
8. Mozambique - 16.1%
9. Malawi - 11.8%
10. Central African Republic - 10.7%
Now these days there's over 200 channels on Sky TV, Freeview, etc and hardly any such adverts to warn people
I'm quite shocked at how many people I know have had one night stands with someone they don't know their sexual history of without a condom.
http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=227
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/africa/03/aids_debate/html/default.stm
http://www.avert.org/aidsfaqs.htm
We just had world Aids days on 1st Dec and it hardly got much coverage in the media .. if it hadn't been on the front screen of Google I wouldnt have even known.
According to the Population Reference Bureau, these are the countries with the highest rate of AIDS among their populations, along with the percent of the population afflicted...
1. Swaziland - 33.4%
2. Botswana - 24.1%
3. Lesotho - 23.2%
4. Zimbabwe - 20.1%
5. Namibia - 19.6%
6. South Africa - 18.8%
7. Zambia - 17.0%
8. Mozambique - 16.1%
9. Malawi - 11.8%
10. Central African Republic - 10.7%
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personally, no i don't.
But not seriously, no.
is scary thought that for sleeping with someone you could end up dying
even when using protection if the comdom splits or whatever
& if they knew & didnt tell you its like they killed you basicaly and its even worse if i knew i had it i think cause id just give up in life, even though you live like 15years with medication i would still give up cause i'm just like that:/
I don't see that as paranoia, I see that as good sense. I wouldn't have unprotected (I mean without a condom rather than no birth control) sex with someone unless I knew we were both clean.
However, to answer the original post, no, I don't worry about HIV. My lifestyle doesn't really lead to HIV being an issue. If I slept around or shared needles or the like, then it would be more of an issue. But I don't do any of that.
I'm a "do first, think later" sort of person when it comes to my own wellbeing. It'll come back to bit me on the arse someday.
Anyway seems sensible to me that two people may want to get tested before throwing away the condoms.
The yearly HIV infection rate in the UK had doubled since those adverts in the 1980's and you never know who's got it, there was some story of a woman who got HIV from a black guy and as revenge (in her mind) she went around sleeping with as many black guys as possible to pass it on.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006280282,2.html
Yes that's sensible but how many people are sensible? if the whole world was sensible we'd be more than overcrowded
So if two people who had HIV were in a relationship, could they not get away with not using condoms?
Simply put, HAART (Highly Active Anti Retroviral Therapy) the treatment for HIV works on usuing combinations of drugs. So say there are 10 drugs to fight HIV and the strain of HIV i have is resitant to drugs 1,3,6 & 9. If i get infected with another strain of HIV thats resitant to say drugs 2,3,7 & 8 then i'm only left with drugs 4,5 & 10 to combat HIV, to which either strian will eventually become resistant.
The majority, it seems, of guys in the HIV+ room on Gaydar bareback, and this is causing so called 'super strains' of HIV to occur that are resitant to most, if not all, HAART. There have been reports from the US of people contracting HIV and then progressing on to AIDS in less than a year because of these drug resistant strains.
PLus of course there's HCV, which is when a person with HIV contracts Hep C and that REALLY fucks you up. Because Hep C effects the liver, they quite often have to take you off your HIV medication as it's too much for your liver to cope with.