How many TS dead due to AIDS

[Nicole Dupre]

There are so many different strains, and ways that strains mutate, that testing positive or negative is not necessarily so cut and dry. For instance, some people are carriers but their CD4 counts are not affected. Meth addicts are often mutating the infection with their habit, and stopping meth can actually lower their T cell level count turn it into full blown AIDS. And of course, having one treatable strain doesn't prevent you from getting another strain that could be your actual death sentence.

But HIV infection is AIDS at a treatable level. I don't remember what your T cell level count needs to be to count as full blown AIDS, but that's when you're most likely to die of pneumonia or cancer, and a few other things that are actually even worse imho, like PML.

[lisaparadise]

shemales don't die from AIDS, the hormones that they take kill the virus, at least that's what this escort told me when I asked why she doesn't use a condom when she tops me

roflmfao,i spit my coffee all over the moniter for fucks sakes,whos the nutjob that told ya that lol

[Azanti]

full blown AIDS is now a redundant term, and no longer used in the medical profession in the UK.

Back the day you were considered to be full blown if your CD4 dropped below 300, then it was 250, then 200, now that term simply is no longer used.

Winnie Sanyu Sseruma, who is a major HIV activist from Uganda, and the UK, when she was diagnosed in 1984, she had a CD4 count of 1.

Cancer is far more likely to kill someone than HIV these days, though of course HIV isn't pleasant to get, hearing people band about words like death sentance is gravely irresponsible.

In the modern world a person who smokes more than 10 Cigarettes a day is far more likely to die well before someone who was diagnosed with HIV ten years ago, who is able to access modern treatments.

The third world, well that is another topic altogether.

[Scott098]

In the US the CDC (center for disease control) considers you to have "AIDS" as opposed to being HIV positive when your CD4 drops below 200.

Azanti is correct, HIV is a treatable illness now... there is a common term used in the US among HIV health Care providers "the bad old days" this refers to the time prior to the start of the triple cocktails that have revolutionized HIV treatment.

The most common treatment given today (to treatment naive patients) is a single pill once a day that contains three meds. A true change from the 90's.

[BrendaQG]

Cancer is far more likely to kill someone than HIV these days, though of course HIV isn't pleasant to get, hearing people band about words like death sentance is gravely irresponsible.

Only if you can afford the drugs and have good healthcare. Which many people don't have even if they can afford the insurance.

I know people who have had HIV longer than Magic, one of whom takes no drugs at all. I have know and know of many many more, people who are now dead because of AIDS.

On average HIV+ ==> Premature Death.

[Nicole Dupre]

full blown AIDS is now a redundant term, and no longer used in the medical profession in the UK.

Back the day you were considered to be full blown if your CD4 dropped below 300, then it was 250, then 200, now that term simply is no longer used.

Winnie Sanyu Sseruma, who is a major HIV activist from Uganda, and the UK, when she was diagnosed in 1984, she had a CD4 count of 1.

Cancer is far more likely to kill someone than HIV these days, though of course HIV isn't pleasant to get, hearing people band about words like death sentance is gravely irresponsible.

In the modern world a person who smokes more than 10 Cigarettes a day is far more likely to die well before someone who was diagnosed with HIV ten years ago, who is able to access modern treatments.

The third world, well that is another topic altogether.

Seriously, "full blown" AIDS or just plain ol' AIDS. What's the difference? Don't get caught up in semantics. I've seen someone struggle horribly with a count of 12 and, imo, it most certainly IS his death sentence. He will never bounce back. Are we supposed to attach a big message of false hope to such low levels? And, if so, should people ever really "band about" them?

[slinky]

If you live like there is no tomorrow.... eventually there isn't.

[praetor]

And i ask you, how many dudes dies from aids complications and opportunistic infections?
If they had contracted, contracted from someone, right?
This is life, not a curse whom God decides to enforce the tgirls to dies from AIDS or as a way to punish them for a supposed sin.

[addicted]

There are so many different strains, and ways that strains mutate, that testing positive or negative is not necessarily so cut and dry. For instance, some people are carriers but their CD4 counts are not affected. Meth addicts are often mutating the infection with their habit, and stopping meth can actually lower their T cell level count turn it into full blown AIDS. And of course, having one treatable strain doesn't prevent you from getting another strain that could be your actual death sentence.

But HIV infection is AIDS at a treatable level. I don't remember what your T cell level count needs to be to count as full blown AIDS, but that's when you're most likely to die of pneumonia or cancer, and a few other things that are actually even worse imho, like PML.

This is not true. Its junk science from modern medicine. The real truth about aids is not in mainstream science.

[phobun]

This is not true. Its junk science from modern medicine. The real truth about aids is not in mainstream science.

You're a dumbass. Stop brainlessly repeating that quack Gary Nobody's bullshit.