"World losing battle with HIV"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060530/ap_on_he_me/aids_piot

25 million people dead in 25 years.

40 million currently infected.

 

define "people".

 

I'd imagine that would be homo sapiens.

 

now you're just going to confuse folks.

 

what does it matter- a human is a human. And FYI- it's the straight folks in Africa that make up the biggest population of Aids patients. Many poz folks in the US just have HIV, not Aids. 80% of Aids patients world-wide do not have access to the anti-virals. That stat just blows my mind.

 

people need to stop fucking.

 

until it strikes a majority class in the united states, it's going to be off the radar for most. nobody idetifies with a disease if they don't identify with the people suffering from it. i'm right there with you -- hiv/aids is a major disease. people figure it's relatively preventable and only strikes people who aren't them, so it's not a concern.

 

I agree. As long as it's gays and blacks, it's fine.


But it's not gonna stay that way. The straight females # of HIV cases are rising quickly.

 

Some interesting stuff......

Take this quiz. Just 10 short questions to see how much you know about HIV.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/aids/etc/quiz.html


I'm doing an education class once every 2 weeks at work with the male patients about HIV/Aids and found some interesting stuff. A lot of it came from a PBS Special called "The Age of Aids." Catch the show if you can.

-There is a dormant strain of Aids that 90% of people world-wide have?

-The number of people who, in 2006, think you can catch HIV from sharing a glass is amazing.

-The % of African-Americans that make up the new HIV cases in the US flipped me out.

-On the quiz: 40 million people have HIV. The % of which do not know it will surprise you.

 

Goddamn.