Why people dont wanna listen, AIDS IS REAL, but do they use condom?NO...?
360972
a lot of people are still either ignorant or stubborn.  and some believe that since they are healthy they couldn't get it. oh well, let's just pray that some cure would be out soon so people can enjoy the gift of sex without worry.
704496
It's funny how silly things gets into circulation. I guess when you're getting your information from your mates on the street....you hear all sorts of nonsense. \n\nYou should hear some of the stuff I've read about preventing conception......or getting AIDS/HIV.......it's scary!!!!
546596
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.
650675
I personally think that is a wonderful idea. I am so sick of people spreading disease and claiming they didn't know when all you have to do is take a five minute test and give your permission. It really pisses me off.\n\nAs for people being concerned that they will not be cared for if they should test positive, I work with AIDS patients and most of them have advanced disease and are unable to work and all of the meds are paid for by you and me and our wonderful government. Fret no more. Just make sure they get tested so they will quit spreading this wretched disease.
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?
1029501
Sounds like you have AIDS
317616
HIV+ teenagers in this day and age have grown up with HAART, the medications that have made the number of AIDS deaths plummet in the US and have helped numerous HIV+ people avoid progression to full-blown AIDS.\n\nSo let's assume they are fairly healthy, but have HIV.\n\nThe major issues they would face sexually would be psychosocial. Disclosing thier HIV+ status is a tough thing for anyone, especially a kid, to deal with. Disclosure makes them vulnerable to rejection (would you dump your mate if you found out s/he had HIV? a lot of people would). Disclosure can lead to ostracism; teens are mean and cruel people, and they will shun folks for any number of stupid reasons.\n\nIf they can figure out how to break it to their partners, and gain acceptance in spite of their status, then SEX becomes an issue.\n\nAs long as the couple ALWAYS uses condoms, then the risk of contracting HIV is extremely low. However, teens (in addition to being mean and cruel) are notoriously negligent in their condom use. Sounds easy, but so very few teens ALWAYS use a condom for sex. Of course, mastery of condom use solves the problem for most aprt. Should the condom break, the partner needs to rush to the ER for antiviral medications so HIV doesn't actually set in.\n\nThen what about children? that's easy. They do in vitro fertilization and give the mother antiviral meds. Mom and baby come out safe and HIV-
1134673
AIDS is caused by a virus HIV(Human Immunodeficiency Virus)\nOn can get infected by HIV by,\nunprotected penetrative sex (vaginal, anal, oral) with an infected partner,.\nTransfusion of infected blood and blood products.\nContaminated needles and syringes and \nFrom an infected mother to her baby before, during delivery or through breast milk.\n\nCondoms make sex safer when used properly but they are not 100 percent safe. Safety factors to check on when buying and using condoms are,\n- Expiry date of the condom - do not use one which has expired.\n- Storage - condoms should be kept away from the heat (for example, from car glove compartments, direct sunlight), and pressure (for example, sitting on a wallet containing condoms).\n- Making sure that sharp objects do not tear a condom during use.\n- Making sure that the air is expelled from the teat of the condom while wearing, so as to prevent it from bursting during intercourse.\nIts a myth that only gays get it,anybody who has unprotected hetrosexual or homosexual relations with an infected partner(same sex or oppisite sex) is at risk of being infected with HIV.\n\nI'm telling u all I know about HIV since uve answered ur question urself.
583723
Duh!! What do you think, you IDIOT!??? Used condoms are DANGEROUS! Ya know, there are two very dangerous diseases out there called AIDS & HIV. Have you heard about them? Well, HIV is the start of AIDS. Some people just stay with HIV (like Magic Johnson), but sometimes, it turns into AIDS, which is fatal (at least until the doctors find a cure for it). AIDS & HIV can be transmitted from one system to another through two ways: Unprotected sex and using other peoples needles. Which is my USED CONDOMS AND NEEDLES ARE BAD, BAD, BAD!\nOk? Do you get it now?
1146623
Do you know anyone personally who has lived and died from HIV/AIDS?  I DO!  Not funny.... not funny at all.
682568
the government and ngos have been spreading awareness about aids through the medium of television and news paper. but then they don't reach the poor and illiterate. for that volunteers are needed who can go from door to door and explain the use of condoms and how to protect one from aids.\n\nbut its not true that this problem is restricted only to slum dwellers. its present even in the upper classes.\nthis problem is wide spread....\nwe have to take time out to help aids affected people and spread awareness
966774
Condoms *are* birth control.  Used correctly every time, they have a very high success rate--95-98%, one of the highest of any method.  They're reversible (no ill effects to your system if/when you want to get pregnant) and there's no danger of long term side effects (and we can't really say that about the Pill, IUD, depo-provera, etc.)  They can also protect you against STDs.  I think one (perhaps the only) benefit of the AIDS crisis is that condoms are probably more reliable than in the past.  Make sure you check that they haven't expired and don't store them in the heat.  Some lubricants can break down the rubber.  There is always some risk in sexual activity.  (As you can tell, I think there's risk in using some of the other methods of birth control too.)  If you can't take the risk (of a pregnancy/abortion and other consequences), then perhaps you shouldn't have sex.
482713
Not Interested.\nU wanna have sex dats ok,but,have u heard of AIDS & STD's???\nStay Safe.\nAbstinance is the best way to keep STD's away.
1111813
Absolutely not.  If nobody got antiviral treatments, the time from infection to emergence of AIDs symptoms, which averages 10 years, is plenty of time for infected people to spread the virus to many other partners unknowingly.  That is why the virus is so successful - that long incubation period.  Modern antivral treatments suppress the virus to a degree where the hiv infected person is not nearly as contagious, i.e., the viral load in their body fluids is many orders of magnitude (a factor of 1000 to 100,000) lower than it would be if they had not treatments.  HIV infected people on antiviral treatments are far less contagious.  That doesn;t mean it is safe for them to have unprotected sex with others, but the chances of transmission per unprotected sex act are dramatically lower, so even if they are irresponsible in this regard, they are mcuh less of a threat.
799488
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.
881915
AIDS is a really serious problem.  People should definately worry about it more because it changes your life.  I think people who have AIDS should be honest with their parteners (because most aren't) and warn them.  AIDS is an auto immune disease.  You get sick easily, and it will most likely result in a premature death.
72859
False ignorance is a danger, look at the spread of aids,and other sexual diseses,we need to be more open not in a perveted way but informative so that people can protect themselves people are going to do what they want to anyway, but let them be informed before its too late.