Why don't celebrities get AIDS?
952666
Well, there's a big difference with being HIV positive and having AID's. Simply put, HIV will cause AID's. HIV is the virus that attacks your immune system and AID's is the resulting condition of health (i.e. being susceptible to disease and unable to fight common bacterial invaders). It can take as long as a decade from acquiring HIV to finally having full blown AID's. \n\nPeople like Magic Johnson are able to repress the onset of AID's through a complex and expensive regimen of medical treatments. Even though he seems to be perfectly healthy, he requires many types of medicine off-screen. The fact that he can afford them differentiates his health care than with that of a non-celebrity. \n\nCelebrities may have a lot of STD's but many STD's aren't really a big as deal as you would think. Gonorrhea can be cured  with a pill a day for as short as a five days. Chlamydia can be cured with a single dose of anti-biotics. Herpes can be repressed, though never cured, but have periods of dormancy so a person's lifestyle is not really heavily affected. \n\nThe only celebrity I know with a serious disease is Pamela Anderson with, I think, Hepatitis C? But she claims to have gotten it from a dirty tattoo gun.\n\nBut anway, an STD is a loosely associated word. It can be easily used as a scare tactic but in reality, STD's are more common than you think but less serious than you think IF treated early. I believe the HIV virus cannot live outside of the body for more than a few moments as well, so contamination from spilled blood is not too likely. If you could catch a common cold from sex, then a cold would be an STD. Not so scary huh? \nWell, it shouldn't be taken likely but not be used as a scare tactic. \n\nMy bad, kinda rambled on, huh?\n\nWell, I'm a nurse, hope that helped :)
769505
First off, nobody "gets" AIDS.  One "gets" HIV which then *MAY* progress to AIDS.\n\nHIV dies almost immediately upon being exposed to air.  It can not live for very long at all outside the body--mere seconds at the most.  Theoretically, one can contract HIV from a toilet seat.  However, a very specific set of circumstances would have had to occur.  A person who has HIV bled or otherwise left on this hypothetical toilet seat some amount of HIV-infected fluid.  Then, you would have to *IMMEDIATELY* sit down on the toilet seat and you would also need to have placed a cut or other opening into your body directly on the blood or other fluid.  Then, you MIGHT contract HIV that way.  But who sits down on bloody toilet seat?\n\nAs far as convincing your mother that touching something will not give her HIV try this tactic:  If HIV *was* spread through touching items, many, many more people would have it.  In fact, even she might have it *IF* it were spread so easily since, chances are, she's either come in contact with HIV.  Or someone she's come in contact with has contact with someone with HIV.  Or someone that person has come in contact with has come in....  Well, you get the idea.
1070077
AIDS originated in monkeys that's why. people didn't have sex with monkeys then.
1144180
lol they do not exist but i am sure they would if they did get  aids. heck they are dead n e ways right so would it matter? i saw this thing on dateline where these freaks go around drinking ppls blood with implanted fangs thinking they are living the life of a vampire. some of them of corse had contracted aids.
370064
Some just get free items from company.  Possilby "health" food, or pills, etc.\n\nUnless it is a famous person doing a sponsorship, it is not much.
363832
People are always going to care about celebrities. They live the kind of lifestyle we can only dream about. You obviously do give a damn about him thats why you are asking this question, in the first place.
421665
Animals don't get infected because its a human thing, in other words rather its God saying stop screw all these people horndog.\n\nyou know know that I think about it cats gets aids... and cats are known for having several partners...
1012785
Where there is good public education, along with free condoms and free needle exchange, the spread of HIV drops to near zero. But of course, we MUST oppose things like that because they "send the wrong message". We must continue to make "sinful" behavior like needle drug use and sex as dangerous as possible, so that those who "stray from the straight and narrow" are punished, punished, punished. \n\nThat it is in our best interest in a worldly, financial sense, to prevent, rather than deal with, HIV infections is irrelevant. All that matters is that "rules are rules" and those who break them must be made to suffer horribly.
1027436
Because he doesnt have AIDS he has HIV.  And with the antiretroviral therapy that has come out in the past ten years, the disease has become much more manageable.\n\nHIV/AIDS is now 25 years old, it is able to be treated now-not ucred yet, but treated\n\nAnd to the people speaking about money and HIV/AIDS, most ,if not all, state medicaid and privatre insurances cover HIV meds.  I have yet to see one that doesn't (Im a pharmacist, I fill HIV meds every day)  And there are also federally funded programs such as HDAP (HIV Drug assitance Program) that cover copays, Ryan White Program that helps to cover others, and many manufacturers offer their products free or at low cost to the uninsured
357535
First of all, you can't get AIDS... you can get HIV, which destroys your immune system over time and once that immune system is obliterated you are now considered AIDS positive. So, to answer your politically correct question: You CANNOT get HIV by kissing, transfering saliva, etc. You can get it by sharing needles during drug use, etc., having unprotected and sometimes even protected sex, crossing blood with an HIV+.
318892
celebrities dont just do that.
37395
Anybody (straight or gay)  who doesn't use protection has much more of a chance of getting AIDS.
717528
No, they don't all have AIDS. But like anyone who is sexually active with multiple partners, homosexuals and heterosexuals can very easily contract and spread STDs. The only "safe sex" is between monogamous partners who have never been with anyone else, or who have only been with disease-free partners. I think committed marriage is one of the only safety-nets from STDs, unless of course one makes sure STD screens are done on every partner they sleep with before any action takes place. Yeah, right. Maybe that's why God ordained monogamy. It's just best.\n\nAnd to the person who said pedophiles and rapists are all heterosexual, that's quite untrue. There is a relatively large demographic of homosexual child molesters out there. We live in a pretty sick world, but the point is not whether one is heterosexual or homosexual- if one is sick and perverted and chooses to behave in an obscene sexual manner, that person is not any worse for his/her sexual orientation. Perversion is perversion.
417864
Possibly. If the person giving you a blow job has a small cut or sore in their mouth, and you have a cut or sore on your penis then you can get HIV, not AIDS. AIDS develops from contracting HIV. HIV can only be spread from blood to blood contact. It's always best to protect yourself.
67236
There is a lowered chance that a person performing oral sex on an AIDS infected man will get AIDS.  HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) is spread through semen, but that infected semen has to get into the blood stream of the other person.  That will only happen if the person giving the oral sex has open sores or wounds in their mouth.  Oral sex is a LOWER risk behavior for HIV infection, but it is still risky.  Use a flavored condom or dental dam anytime you give or receive oral sex.  And remember, there's more than just AIDS out there.
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The aids virus is carried in the blood - it cannot live on the surface of things like doorknobs and walls.  It has to have the heat and other things in the blood.  So, just touching the same places that the person with aids does will not give you aids.\n\nIf, however, that person should have an accident and you or someone else needed to help them with a wound where they were bleeding (or mouth-to-mouth resuscitation) you should do so only with rubber gloves.\n\nPlease don't worry so much.  It is not that easy to contract aids except through sexual contact or blood transfusions.
447697
Two reasons possible.\n\n1.  Because they are insane psycho stalkers.\n\n2.  Because they have no lives of their own, so they hope to live vicariously through celebrities.