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25 years later, and AIDS is still killing
VICTORIA ADVOCATE ^
| September 27, 2007
| GABE SEMENZA
Posted on 09/28/2007 6:18:05 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch
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"About 100 people in the seven-country Crossroads have..."
I think you meant seven county Crossroads area, Gabe.
To: SwinneySwitch
Twenty-five years after AIDS was formally given a name, Texas and the rest of the country still fail to designate the money needed to prevent it and HIV...Money will do squat, if you'll pardon the expression.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:21:11 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: SwinneySwitch
Anyone in this country with an IQ over 70 knows how to avoid getting AIDS and yet people are still getting it.Given this fact I have trouble feeling sympathy for anyone but newborns who contract it.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:21:35 PM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
(If martyrdom is so cool,why does Osama Obama go to such great lengths to avoid it?)
To: SwinneySwitch
AIDS is virtually 100% preventable. Doesn’t cost a dime, either.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:22:00 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
To: SwinneySwitch
"Despite the fact we've had 25 years of experience with this disease, something is wrong with how we're approaching it,"Yup, bonehead.
How about the concept of keeping ones manhood out of the human orifice for getting rid of all the crap (literally) your body doesn't need.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:26:32 PM PDT
by
Popman
To: SwinneySwitch
To: SwinneySwitch
They want a way to prevent it besides personal responsibility.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:28:04 PM PDT
by
Millee
(Tagline free since 10/20/06)
To: decimon
They have a point, Texas has not allocated the money for the isolation camps required to keep those who have this deadly disease away from the general population.
Unfortunately, I think their solution involves free condoms for fifth graders and a gay awareness month.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:30:26 PM PDT
by
chaos_5
(... I'm just another angry white male ...)
To: SwinneySwitch
So, why, after 25 years, hasn't HIV/AIDS testing become routine at doctors' offices and hospitals?Let me try to answer that. What good would testing do? The people who are determined to distribute aids and those who are anxious to get it will go about their business as normal (maybe that should be abnormal) without regard to test results. Now if those found with aids or HIV were to be isolated from the normal population I would support testing.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:32:50 PM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: SwinneySwitch
25 years later, and AIDS is still killing
It's too bad that the JAMA article from the late 1980s (with COLOR PHOTOS)
of the autopsied esophageal tissues of HIV+ young males in San Francisco wasn't put on television as Public Service Announcement.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:43:51 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: SwinneySwitch
AIDS is Reagans fault /sarcasm
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:45:26 PM PDT
by
JackDanielsOldNo7
(On guard until the seal is broken)
To: decimon
Twenty-five years after AIDS was formally given a POLITICALLY CORRECT name, "AIDS" was originally called "GRID", which was an acronym for "Gay Related Immune Deficiency". It originally manifested itself in an extremely high rate of Kaposi's Sarcoma, an otherwise very rare skin cancer.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:46:10 PM PDT
by
Don W
(I wondered why the baseball was getting bigger. Then it hit me.)
To: ClearCase_guy
but it is not politically correct, and even discriminatory against some sexual preference codes to promote the preventative care that is guaranteed to remove it from society.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:47:42 PM PDT
by
elpadre
To: SwinneySwitch
Despite the fact we've had 25 years of experience with this disease, something is wrong with how we're approaching itFunny thing, but this is the single most preventable disease there is. No drugs, No sex until marriage and remain monogamous.
If this prescription is followed one has reduced one's exposure to a minuscule risk. If society as a whole would promote this prescription, AIDS would be defeated in a generation, not to mention most venereal disease, bastard children, gang violence, the welfare crisis, and etcetera.
Like silly children we rebel against that which God has told us is good, that which we can see with our own eyes. Yet we go on despite that knowledge because sexual freedom must be protected at all costs.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:57:01 PM PDT
by
roamer_1
(Vote for FrudyMcRomson -Turn red states purple in 08!)
To: SwinneySwitch
I guess you all have forgotten what it is like to be a teenager in lust, thinking you will live forever and that nothing will hurt you. Crosses all lines, Christian and Buddhists, young and old, rich and poor.
Be careful before you make such prideful announcements - you may have to deal with it in your own families.
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posted on
09/28/2007 6:59:51 PM PDT
by
txzman
(Jer 23:29)
To: Gay State Conservative
Anyone in this country with an IQ over 70 knows how to avoid getting AIDS and yet people are still getting it. Given this fact I have trouble feeling sympathy for anyone but newborns who contract it. Why even have compassion on newborns?
A doctor, dentist or health worker can contract it from a patient.
People can get AIDS from a blood transfusion.
A person can go out and mess around ONE TIME and contract AIDS.
Guess you think people should be celebate Nuns or they deserve whatever happens to them.
Guess if you get heart disease from eating fast foods or a sedentary life style, or skin cancer from spending too much time at the beach etc etc, nobody should have any compassion for you either. Right.
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posted on
09/28/2007 7:08:52 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: SwinneySwitch
25 years later, and AIDS is still killingAlternate headline: 25 years later and the fudgepacking continues unabated.
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posted on
09/28/2007 7:09:34 PM PDT
by
jdm
To: decimon
Money will do squat, if you'll pardon the expression. You wouldn't say that if you were one of the poor families in 3rd world countries being helped by US AIDS funds.
Money has produced meds that allow people with AIDS to live and remain productive and contributing members of society for many many years now.
Money has helped millions around the world including children left without parents because of this disease.
God bless George Bush and other world leaders who've had the compassion to contribute funds toward battling this disease around the world.
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posted on
09/28/2007 7:18:51 PM PDT
by
Jorge
To: SwinneySwitch
Kill one Typhoid Mary today or a million twenty years from now...
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posted on
09/28/2007 7:27:38 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
To: roamer_1
“Sit down and shut up” works pretty good.
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posted on
09/28/2007 7:29:06 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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