What is the source of the stereotype identified toward ppl with HIV/AIDS?
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HIV used to be a death sentance. But treatment is much improved.\n\nhttp://www.webmd.com/content/article/5/1680_50172.htm
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They could be.  A person with AIDS has a suppressed immune system, so they are more prone to getting infections, diseases, or cancers than a person without AIDS.  Actually a lot of people with AIDS die not from AIDS itself, but from other dieases that they contract...their immune system is so weak that they can't fight it off and they die from it.
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false.  it means they will develop aids.  hiv causes aids.
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There are none. People can "look" and "act" gay, but sexuality is a matter of personal identity.\n\nSome stereotypes that people use include limp wrist, lisp, use of full name or unusually shortened name (example: Straight: Andy; Gay: Andrew or Drew), participates in feminine activities, dresses well, and so on.
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Aids infects those don't follow God's moral laws.\nFaithful Christians that don't cheat on their spouses have a very low rate of infection from hiv.
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how about this:\nAIDS is possibly the worst epidemic ever encountered by man-kind, but the world can change the course of Africa's future by donating food, water, money, and moral support.  One of the people lending a hand with the moral support of the war against AIDS is an HIV- positive singer by the name of Grace Nakawunde.\n\nyes? no?  you decide.
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December 1st is world AIDS Day, how about an article of how it effecting Children in Africa (or about how gay teens are a growing segment of the infected).  I think we are tempted to write of HIV like it was yesterday, but it is still real, and people need to be reminded how to prevent it.
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I would not think would be a correct generality.  Africa has the worse cases of widespread Aids in the world.  \n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/africa/2000/aids_in_africa/default.stm\n\nhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1201/p06s01-woaf.html\n\nhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4052531.stm\n\nMost of this is contributed to sexual relations outside of marriage and with many partners.   (And that does not sound like "good moral values, to me)\n\nI think you can find kind, moral, polite, responsible men in any country and within any race... you just have to demand it and not take less.
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You contact HIV usually through unprotected sex, sharing needles, or blood transfusions, basically body fluids and open wounds.  Anyone is at risk for it because people who have it might not know at first and be spreading it to others, the stereotypes are usually hookers, gay people, drug users, street people but that's not really true because anyone can get it or be born with it, we just all like to think it won't happen to us.  Risky behaviors are unprotected sex, sharing needles, and open wounds that bleed and anyone else with an open wound touching something can pick up germs.  It depends on the person as to how long they live.  Some believe saliva can spread germs, others don't. I would just be all around careful if I was around someone I knew that could possibly be infected.
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not valid at all. there are tens of thousands of studies that reinforce the idea that HIV is the cause of AIDS. the virusmyth people are only serving to weaken HIV prevention efforts by destroying the public trust in health providers (public, private and otherwise).\n\nthe National Institutes of Health have a factsheet to repsond to the HIV denialists (who rank down there with Holocaust deniers in terms of credibility).\n\nhttp://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/evidhiv.htm Read it and think it over.
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Media releases concerning the possibility of mosquitoes transmitting AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) were common when the disease was first recognized, and the subject is still addressed by tabloids that seek captivating headlines to increase their circulation. The topic was initiated by reports from a small community in southern Florida where preliminary evidence suggested that mosquitoes may have been responsible for the higher on average incidence of AIDS in the local population. The media was quick to publicize claims that mosquitoes were involved in AIDS transmission despite findings of scientific surveys of the National Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that clearly demonstrated that mosquito transmission of AIDS in that community appeared highly unlikely. Nevertheless, media releases perpetuated the concept that mosquitoes transmitted AIDS, and many people still feel that mosquitoes may be responsible for transmission of this infection from one individual to another. \n\n     There are three theoretical mechanisms which would allow blood-sucking insects such as mosquitoes to transmit HIV.\n\n1. In the first mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by feeding on an HIV positive carrier and ingest virus particles with the blood meal. For the virus to be passed on, it would have to survive inside the mosquito, preferably increase in numbers, and then migrate to the mosquito's salivary glands. The infected mosquito would then seek its second blood meal from an uninfected host and transfer the HIV from its salivary glands during the course of the bite. This is the mechanism used by most mosquito-borne parasites, including malaria, yellow fever, dengue, and the encephalitis viruses.\n\n2. In the second mechanism, a mosquito would initiate the cycle by beginning to feed on an HIV carrier and be interrupted after it had successfully drawn blood. Instead of resuming the partial blood meal on its original host, the mosquito would select an AIDS-free person to complete the meal. As it penetrated the skin of the new host, the mosquito would transfer virus particles that were adhering to the mouthparts from the previous meal. This mechanism is not common in mosquito-borne infections, but equine infectious anemia is transmitted to horses by biting flies in this manner.\n\n3. The third theoretical mechanism also involves a mosquito that is interrupted while feeding on an HIV carrier and resumes the partial blood meal on a different individual. In this scenario, however, the AIDS-free host squashes the mosquito as it attempts to feed and smears HIV contaminated blood into the wound. In theory, any of the mosquito-borne viruses could be transmitted in this manner providing the host circulated sufficient virus particles to initiate re-infection by contamination.\n\n     Each of these mechanisms has been investigated with a variety of blood sucking insects and the results clearly show that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS. News reports on the findings, however, have been confusing, and media interpretation of the results has not been clear. The average person is still not convinced that mosquitoes are not involved in the transmission of a disease that appears in the blood, is passed from person to person and can be contracted by persons that share hypodermic needles. Here are just some of the reasons why the studies showed that mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS:\n\n \n\n  Mosquitoes Digest the Virus that Causes AIDS\n\n\n    When a mosquito transmits a disease agent from one person to another, the infectious agent must remain alive inside the mosquito until transfer is completed. If the mosquito digests the parasite, the transmission cycle is terminated and the parasite cannot be passed on to the next host. Successful mosquito-borne parasites have a number of interesting ways to avoid being treated as food. Some are refractory to the digestive enzymes inside the mosquito's stomach; most bore their way out of the stom
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Of course not.  \n\nYes, irresponsibilty plays are part into why SOME people get HIV or AIDS, but these people have a disease that might take away their life!  What they need is support and understanding more than anything - all with HIV-AIDS, not some.
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Well, in the beginning, the gays complained that nothing was really being done about the disease because it was only gays that had it.  \n\nThey donated blood, women had sex with bi-sexuals, and so it spread to the heterosexual community also.\n\nToday, of course, we are told not to blame the gays for starting the disease, just because it started in their community.
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im not sure .. but if you look into aids you come up with some interesting things that seem to be supported by some pretty convincing evidence ... in a nutshell they say aids was started through vaccines in africa and select groups of people in the US.
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Most people know that. And most people with AIDS/HIV are very responsible. I feel for them.\nWhat I don't like though......it is those people WHO KNOW they can infect others but do not care..\nSame with other other diseases really..Herpes, STDs etc..
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Only in that children are already more susceptable to illnesses due to less mature immune systems already. Children with HIV are usually born with it, therefore are probably already suffering from the symptoms