Have you been for a HIV test?

[IrOnMaN]

but like hundreds of millions of people got it, and they are spreading it, so it would seem like more people would be dying daily from aids. i'm not saying it ain't real, i just think its commonly/purposefully misdiagnosed and the numbers are inflated. both due to the fact that is as business.

Yeah. It's crazy to hear that African-Americans make up the most cases of HIV/AIDS in American, especially in Washington D.C.

During the '80s, China had the most HIV/AIDS cases in history (makes sense because billions of people live in China), India was second, and countries in Africa third. Fortunately, China and India got their HIV/AIDS cases under control and sent the message regarding the virus. But you don't hear about this

Now, for some odd freaking reason, countries in Africa can't control the virus.

All you see and hear is Africa and HIV/AIDS. Black people and HIV/AIDS.

It's a business and negativity directed towards blacks and that's a fact.

[DeeBlock]

but like hundreds of millions of people got it, and they are spreading it, so it would seem like more people would be dying daily from aids. i'm not saying it ain't real, i just think its commonly/purposefully misdiagnosed and the numbers are inflated. both due to the fact that is as business.

Yeah. It's crazy to hear that African-Americans make up the most cases of HIV/AIDS in American, especially in Washington D.C.

During the '80s, China had the most HIV/AIDS cases in history (makes sense because billions of people live in China), India was second, and countries in Africa third. Fortunately, China and India got their HIV/AIDS cases under control and sent the message regarding the virus. But you don't hear about this

Now, for some odd freaking reason, countries in Africa can't control the virus.

All you see and hear is Africa and HIV/AIDS. Black people and HIV/AIDS.

It's a business and negativity directed towards blacks and that's a fact.

It's too bad some audio interviews about the hiv/aids phenomena I had on my last processor was lost due to my computer conking out on me.

There is alternative information out there for those who would access it - even some documentaries on youtube.

Not too much time for me to go all into it.

Anyway, good to see some reflection here.

[Ol' Dirty Trixˣ]

I don't believe in HIV or AIDS. i don't know ANYBODY who died from it. if so many people got it, then whats the deal? shit is like swine flu.

but i still get tested tho. lol

but like hundreds of millions of people got it, and they are spreading it, so it would seem like more people would be dying daily from aids. i'm not saying it ain't real, i just think its commonly/purposefully misdiagnosed and the numbers are inflated. both due to the fact that is as business.

Symptoms of HIV/AIDS

The first few months after you become infected with HIV is called primary HIV infection, or acute HIV infection. You might also hear this called seroconversion. You may have symptoms of HIV infection but you may not pay attention to them, because they are like other infections such as flu. Early symptoms usually start about four weeks after the infection and can last for up to four weeks.
Symptoms of primary HIV include:

• fever
• swollen glands
• sore throat
• rash on your body or face
• painful muscles or joints
• headache
• feeling generally unwell
• ulcers in your mouth
• sweating at night
• brain infections such as meningitis (this is rare)

During this time, you're very infectious because the amount of the virus in your blood is high. This means that the risk of passing the infection on to someone else is high, for example, through unprotected sex.
After these early symptoms, HIV may remain hidden for years. Many people don't progress into advanced HIV infection, and deaths are now uncommon in people taking anti-HIV medicines.
If you're unaware of your HIV infection, your body's ability to fight infection becomes badly affected. When this happens, your immune system will become weak and won't be able to work properly. Eventually, you could be at risk of life-threatening illnesses. When this happens it's called advanced HIV infection (or AIDS).
Advanced HIV infection (AIDS)

Once your immune system has been seriously damaged, you may start to develop illnesses that usually require complex treatments in hospital. Illnesses associated with advanced HIV infection include:

• tuberculosis
• pneumonia
• certain cancers of the lymph glands (lymphoma)

These illnesses are uncommon in people who have been taking anti-HIV medicines.

Treatment of HIV/AIDS

There is no cure for HIV infection. However, treatment with anti-HIV medicines can reduce the amount of the virus in your body, slow down the effects of the virus and reduce your chances of developing a later, life-threatening infection. When used appropriately and taken properly, anti-HIV medicines can help you to stay well and live a full life.
HIV treatment is managed at specialist out-patient clinics and it's important to attend all your appointments. Your health professional will check how well your immune system is working and ask you about your general health at these appointments.
Usually, once the number of CD4 white blood cells has fallen to a low level, or if you become pregnant, your doctor will recommend starting treatment with medicines. You may also start treatment if you develop a serious infection or a condition linked to advanced HIV infection.
Medicines

Medicines used to treat HIV work in a number of different ways. For this reason, you will be asked to take a combination of different medicines together.
These medicines prevent the virus from reproducing in your body, which reduces the amount of virus in your blood. This allows your immune system to recover. Medicines also stop the virus from changing (mutating) when it reproduces. The aim of treatment is to reduce the amount of virus in your blood to very low levels.
You will probably take three medicines together, which are often combined into one or two pills taken once or twice daily. This is known as antiretroviral therapy, combination therapy, or HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy). Taking your medicines on time, every time is very important with medicines used to treat HIV infection. This is the best way of slowing down the virus and helping you to stay well.
There are several types of medicine. Combination therapies usually contain medicines from at least two different classes of drugs. Your doctor will work with you to choose the medicines that suit you best.
Always ask your doctor or specialist nurse for advice and read the patient information leaflet that comes with your medicine.
Side-effects

Side-effects are the unwanted effects of taking a medicine. If you have side-effects it's important to talk to your doctor, or the healthcare professional who prescribed your medicine, before you stop taking it.
You may develop side-effects in the first few months after you start your treatment. These usually get better after a few weeks. You may:

• feel sick or be sick
• have diarrhoea or wind (flatulence)
• feel tired and have aching muscles
• have a rash
• have trouble sleeping or bad dreams
• feel dizzy

These side-effects at the start of therapy may be very mild, and usually improve as your body gets used to the medicine.
Medicines can increase the amount of fat in your blood, which can increase your risk of heart disease. Certain medicines affect the kidneys or liver in some people.
If you have any side-effects during your treatment, your doctor or nurse will discuss the options for treatment or change to a new combination of HIV medicines.

hiv/aids is a big business considering that everyone infected will be taking/buying meds for the rest of their lives. living with the fact that you'll be on meds for the rest of you life is fucking depressing. then you got to factor in the fact that those meds that you have to take also carry side effects.

so your quality of life will decrease and your money too. plus you have to worry about telling a potential partner about your hiv/aids.

damn, never thought about that before. i know and have known a shitload of IV drug users. no one i know has ever contracted, or died from, AIDS...

how many of them got themselves tested for it, i wouldn't think they'd have time to go for a hiv test. i know j only got tested cos the rehab wouldn't take him in before he got tested for all diseases. he was also to chickenshit to go for one cos he's scared of bad news.

[Ol' Dirty Trixˣ]

and j wasn't an iv user. he smoked his.

[check two]

Yeah. It's crazy to hear that African-Americans make up the most cases of HIV/AIDS in American, especially in Washington D.C.

During the '80s, China had the most HIV/AIDS cases in history (makes sense because billions of people live in China), India was second, and countries in Africa third. Fortunately, China and India got their HIV/AIDS cases under control and sent the message regarding the virus. But you don't hear about this

Now, for some odd freaking reason, countries in Africa can't control the virus.

All you see and hear is Africa and HIV/AIDS. Black people and HIV/AIDS.

It's a business and negativity directed towards blacks and that's a fact.

Some of it might have to do with the types of conditions that are present in some parts of Africa and culture issues there, not just a racial thing.

[PALEHORSE]

recommended reading

1 Do Insects Transmit AIDS?
2 Infectious AIDS: Have We Been Misled?
3 AIDS: What the Government Isn't Telling You
4 AIDS: Virus or Drug Induced?
5 Inventing the AIDS Virus

[cutn' heads]

and j wasn't an iv user. he smoked his.

i dont know. but after 15 years i would think someone would have caught the bug by now...

[Uncle Steezo]

on a side note, i saw this doc about gay dudes having "bug parties" where rather than worry about catching it they throw an orgy full of a bunch of hiv+ dudes so that the "guest of honor" can catch it and get it over with.

smh

so they followed this one dude who was all excited about catching hiv so "he could get on with his life". lol. a year later he had regretted it horribly and was getting sick on was on those meds all fucked up talkin bout it was a bad idea. hahahahah really? you think so?

[Mumm Ra]

that's nightmarishly fucked up

[DeeBlock]

on a side note, i saw this doc about gay dudes having "bug parties" where rather than worry about catching it they throw an orgy full of a bunch of hiv+ dudes so that the "guest of honor" can catch it and get it over with.

I heard something similar.

Think of the straight people who do the same without the receiver knowing about it.

[IrOnMaN]

on a side note, i saw this doc about gay dudes having "bug parties" where rather than worry about catching it they throw an orgy full of a bunch of hiv+ dudes so that the "guest of honor" can catch it and get it over with.

smh

so they followed this one dude who was all excited about catching hiv so "he could get on with his life". lol. a year later he had regretted it horribly and was getting sick on was on those meds all fucked up talkin bout it was a bad idea. hahahahah really? you think so?

Are you serious?

[Uncle Steezo]

i'm dead serious.
"Bug Chasers"

[Slippy The Pimp]

Faggotry.

[Dirty Knowledge]

theese poor fellas havent

http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/koala-population-ravaged-by-chlamydia/19632335

Koala Population Ravaged by Chlamydia


(Sept. 17) -- The world's koala population is being ravaged by an epidemic that would seem at odds with the animal's image as the cuddly emblem of Australia. According to researchers, 50 to 80 percent of the marsupials are infected with a disease commonly associated with human promiscuity: chlamydia.

That's right, chlamydia. The situation is so dire, in fact, that experts fear the koala may become extinct in a few decades if a vaccine isn't developed.

The disease's effects include severe conjunctivitis (or "pink eye"), incontinence, prostatitis and kidney damage. Chlamydia is weakening koalas to the point where they no longer have the energy to survive. It can also cause conditions such as urinary tract infections that can impair the reproductive system. Zoologists say 30 to 45 percent of female koalas have been left infertile.

While nobody knows how koalas first came to be infected with chlamydia, some researchers speculate koalas may have been exposed to infected mammals at some point in their evolution. The disease spreads among koalas through male-male and male-female sexual contact, as well as orally from mother to young during child rearing.

Though the rate of infection has historically been quite high, the expression -- or display of symptoms -- has been low. It's with extreme stress among the animals, however, that the disease then expresses itself.

And over the past decade, koalas have been stressed.

They've lost vast portions of their habitat to human development. Crammed into ever-smaller fragments of land and in areas with severe human encroachment, such as the "Koala Coast" in southeastern Queensland, the koala population has been almost completely wiped out.

"We're looking at a situation where koalas in southeast Queensland would be functionally extinct," said William Ellis, a researcher at the University of Queensland, in an interview with AOL News.

The Australian Koala Foundation estimates that there are fewer than 80,000, and potentially as few as 43,000, koalas left in Australia today.

Since there is no vaccine, koala conservationists can only react to the chlamydia epidemic, treating a small percentage of the animals with long-term antibiotics and anti-inflammatories before releasing them into the wild. A spokesperson at Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors, a leading conservation group, said koalas with severe reproductive disease or other incurable diseases are euthanized.

While researchers are working on a vaccine, it may arrive too late. And some fear that a vaccine could harm the animal's specialized digestive tract, which contains healthy bacteria that break down a diet rich in eucalyptus leaves.

"We want to make sure the vaccine helps them," Peter Timms, a Queensland University of Technology professor working on the vaccine, told AOL News. "While you might treat the chlamydia, you might make their digestive tracts worse."

While conservationists address the epidemic, the fate of the koala has gone largely unnoticed outside of Australia. That may suit the Australian tourism industry just fine, as koalas are estimated to have a $1 billion impact on the tourism industry.

What tourist, after all, would want to be photographed with an animal known for its chlamydia?

"It's a benefit to the tourism industry that you don't see koalas with disease," Timms said.

[IrOnMaN]

Faggotry.

HIV/AIDS has nothing to do with being gay. Again, it's a social issue. The message isn't being heard.