Why are gay people more prone to AIDS? serious question...?
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Okay...gay people aren't "prone" to AIDS.\n\nAIDS is passed through the exchange of bodily fluids.\n\nIt is very common to exchange bodily fluids during ana1 sex, as this often involves tearing of the tissues.  Therefore, ana1 sex is considered high-risk (along with sharing needles and such).\n\nHomosexuals do not necessarily have more partners than do heterosexuals (in fact studies show quite the opposite).
1042419
Why? There are a lot of Americans who already have HIV/AIDS. Lets screen them first...
1079255
Actually both...\nMarital status is not a factor when it comes to contracting AIDS.\nSingle people get it from unsafe sex etc... That is all common knowledge..\nMarried people get it from the same sources too... Your partner could be looking for gratification outside marital lines.. Or your partner could already have AIDS and is concealing it..Anything is possible..
644043
well i think gay people are hated still because people think that they are the cause of aids and there are alot of ignorant people who don't understand that we are all the same and for some reason they think gay people are drug useres and alcoholics and party all the time. I think it's plain and simple ignorance and i wish it would stop because it's pathetic how stupid some of the most intelligent people are when it comes to fact and fiction.
1046449
There is much misconception about this.\nThe Human Immunodefeciency Virus, aka HIV is a virus (obviously) that infects humans, specifically recognising cd4 and cd8 receptors. \nAuto Immunodeficency Syndrom, aka AIDS, is a condition when you the amount of white blood cells in your blood drops below a certain level.\n\nHIV infections, in the latter stages, can lead to AIDS.\nBut other things can cause AIDS. AIDS is not only caused by HIV.\n\nOh, point of note - you don't die from HIV or AIDS. You actually die from a secondary infection, due to having AIDS. Feel free to contact me for more info.
222684
I'm not really sure, but I work in a hospital and people lived until their 40's contracting aids, is sad though, because not allot of people, not even their family members come to visit them, even when they die, I never see anyone. What ignorant people we have this days....I personally would not have a problem having a friend with aids, I think true friends stick till the end! I always talk to them when I get a chance and allot of them make mistakes, is not only people that are gay, there are allot of ways in getting aids, like blood transfusion, even your partner(that's why is better to test yourself before going any further; since condoms are not so reliable. I wish people just had more sympathy for others than being more self center....
709641
A certain percentage of any population will be naturally immune to a particular disease, including HIV. There is no way known, as yet, you improve your immunity to HIV and any attempt would entail great risk. Foods might help, but the risk is too great. Play it safe.
1064338
I agree it may be easier in the sense of dominate and passive issues that men and women face. In as much; it can be equally challenging if not more worse because of cultural limitations. Gays generally don't show openly affection to each others as their counterparts. Gays, are not allowed to marry; which in itself can cause all sorts of family problems if the other becomes sick. Gays are not allowed as much as straights in regards to health benefits and insurance. Gays aren't afforded the same courtesy that heterosexual get on a daily bases. These facts commingled with the challenge people have in general relationships can make being in a gay relationship very hard.
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(m)\n\nThe origin of AIDS and HIV has puzzled scientists ever since the illness first came to light in the early 1980s. For over twenty years it has been the subject of fierce debate and the cause of countless arguments, with everything from a promiscuous flight attendant to a suspect vaccine programme being blamed. So what it the truth? Just where did AIDS come from?\n\nThe first recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (more about this period can be found on our history page). A number of gay men in New York and San Francisco suddenly began to develop rare opportunistic infections and cancers that seemed stubbornly resistant to any treatment. At this time, AIDS did not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The discovery of HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS was made soon after. While some were initially resistant to the connection (and indeed remain so today), there is now clear evidence to prove that HIV does cause AIDS. So, in order to find the source of AIDS, it is necessary to look for the origin of HIV, and find out How, When and Where HIV first began to cause disease in humans.
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Despite what other responders may think, what the questioner asks is TRUE.  It is not homophobic its in the news.\n\nI am a gay man and I have seen this too!  It has been reported in mainstream news media and medical journals.\n\nTo answer his question, yes hiv/aids causes should be still supported.\n\nThe instances of those who allow themselves to intentionally get infected, though alarming and disturbing, is statistically very small number of new cases.  In the US and Canada the spread of hiv is still growing at too fast a pace in minority heterosexual communities (here in Houston Tx, among hispanics and african americans).  There has also been dramatic increases in the younger gay population of the two countries.  Of course others too are contracting it, and most are not doing so intentionally.\n\nWorldwide, hiv/aids is overwhelmingly a heterosexually transmitted disease.\n\nSadly those few that do self inflict do so for very misguided reasons.  The belief that AIDS is chronic and not fatal and without risk, less precaution in sex needed (erroneous at best). Misplaced empathy.  Drug influences are also attributed to this(Current Tv has a pod on this very thing running this week).\n\nSupport for causes shouldn't be stopped because of a few irresponsible and/or misguided.  Support hould be ramped up to protect those wishing to not be infected, and those wishing to be rid of the infection.  \n\nJust as important,in lay man's terms, AIDS is not really in itself a disease, but syndrome that allows other diseases to take hold.  You don't die from AIDS you die from diseases that AIDS allows to take hold.  Theses diseases evolve, and it is only a matter of time that they can spread by means other than bodily fluids.  It is in our best interest to stop HIV/AIDS before other diseases are launched into the population not infected.\n\nWe cure diseases not as a reward for good behavior, but because it makes sense to do so for everyone's best interest, but also because it is the humane thing to do.
442265
Actually it is easier to contract HIV, and any other STD for that matter, through an-al sex, however that has nothing to do with a person's sexual preference. Straight people who engage in an-al sex are more likely to transmit diseases than through vag-inal sex. No matter how you choose to enter, don't take your soldier to war without his helmet :)
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This really depends on who you mean by "educated people," if the educated person is a doctor or familiar with public health or medicine at all, then they probably don't think AIDS could never happen to them.  They would also tell you HIV/ AIDS rates are actually worse for black women, not homosexuals or prostitutes.\n\nI think maybe the better way to frame this question is "Why might some people think that HIV/AIDS could never happen to them?"  The simple answer to that question is that they are ignorant of the facts.  If a person doesn't know the trends of HIV/AIDS infection, then I would imagine it would be difficult for them to make an educated guess.\n\nAnother reason why people think that any disease or disaster could never happen to them is because that's human nature.  (i.e, Getting robbed?  That could never happen to me.  Getting a rare cancer?  That could never happen to me).  But the problem with HIV/AIDS is that given the trends and risks for contracting the disease is so real, that people should be made more aware of the issue.  Maybe you should consider writing an op-ed or opinion piece to your local newspaper about it, I bet it would really benefit alot of people.
528255
'attrect' AIDS virus!!!!!!did u want to type 'Attract'?well,if thats so,nobody attracts the HIV virus,humas are not magnets for the HIV....there's no laws of attraction here..there's transmission...the virus which causes AIDS,HIV is transmitted through,\n1. Unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner. Regular and consistent use of condoms during sexual intercourse means protected sex and minimizes the chances of getting HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.\n2. Transfusion of infected blood or blood products.\n3. Use of infected needles as in injecting drug use or in health care settings.\n4. From mother to child.\n\nThe A, B, C of HIV prevention are:\nA= Abstinence\nB= Being faithful to one single partner and\nC= Consistent and correct use of condoms.\n\nI dont think there's any use of knowing the name of the 1st person who died of AIDS,but chances are he was from Africa,but there's no documented proof for that.\n\nStay Safe.
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AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus.\n\nYou can get infected with HIV if the virus passes into your body from someone else who is already infected.\n\nThere are two main ways this can happen:\n\n1. Through having unprotected (no condom) vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV. Oral sex carries a small risk of transmission. There has never been a reported case of transmission through kissing (even deep kissing).\n\n2. Through someone else's infected blood getting directly into your bloodstream, for example through sharing drug or tattoo needles or injecting equipment, or piercing with unsterile equipment. In the first half of the 1980s a number of people were infected from contaminated blood transfusions, but this is very rare now because blood donations are screened. Sometimes HIV is passed from an infected mother to her foetus either in the womb or during birth.\n\nYou CANNOT get HIV through normal non sexual contact, or from sharing eating utensils or from mosquitoes.
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AIDS originated in monkeys that's why. people didn't have sex with monkeys then.
742012
Why is it so hard to believe that people get HIV from unsafe sex?\n\nIt doesn't matter if he was black, gay, straight, jewish or republican.... you can only contract HIV so many ways....\n\nand why would the government care about him?
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Hi buddy,\n\nThe HIV virus is a very fragile virus that gets easily killed on drying or contact with ordinary toilet soap or even very dilute spirit.The world wide fear of this infection is not because it gets easily transmitted or that its a tough virus to kill.Its just because the virus attacks the patient's immune system. Death in an HIV infected person comes in the form of other diseases that attack the person when his body's defence mechanisms are in a weak state.\n Human saliva is not demonstrated by research to contain enough load of virus as to cause infection to another person ingesting it. There is a theoretical possibility of the virus getting transmitted thru deep kissing, if the kisser has a mouth ulcer. The virus in that case has a (very small) chance to enter the body of the individual thru this open wound in the mouth. Still the virus may not survive the variable pH levels and salt concentrations of the human saliva.   And all the more, the probability of this type of  transmission is less than 0.01% . In day to day life that kind of probability is considered as ZERO chance...!  Hence we, healthcare workers don't consider saliva as a potential source of infection. Like wise, the chance of a mosquito transmitting the virus is somewhere near 0.004%..!!\n\nRegarding Web sources on AIDS, the United Nations' website is the ultimate knowledge bank ... Log on to www.unaids.org and find a wealth of info and links.\nAll the best.\nBye.