The AIDS epidemic: Beginning of the end?

[Quiet Reflections]

oh...ok...bug chasers. That term I know. I still want some bacon

[Prospero]

Eat the bacon - and you've had your chips....?

[Quiet Reflections]

bacon and salad no chips. then I have to go workout in about an hour.

[danthepoetman]

Ok, slightly wrong with the phrase but you get my drift; better medication is available + some people take greater risk, some seem to get a thrill out of it which i do not understand:

Fancy fancy, you’re right, I’ve heard about that recently too. HIV positive people live long lives nowadays on medication. That’s why we see that hiv culture emerging. And it’s so human… It’s weird but true. That’s why I was saying that the only real way to overcome the epidemic was a vaccine. And a quick look on the net after googling has just confirmed me that they are still searching and that they still seem to be thinking they’re not too far from the goal… I don’t know…

[Prospero]

Indeed - a "fuller life' can be lived on the medications. But it seems they have side effects and your life expectancy is still shorter as a result.

[danthepoetman]

They won’t be able to cure the disease, of course. The only real hope is to contain it with vaccination campaigns, exactly what they did for smallpox, for instance.

[LibertyHarkness]

you can live fully into your 80s with hiv if your healthy and have the right medications .... the other problems arise in insurances, how people outside see you once your HIV + etc ...

But its no differemnt than having cancer with treatm,ent, no different than having MS and having treatments .. all these have adverse affects ...

YOu cant live your life in a plastic bubble and protect yourself from the world ..for me i i am one of "those porn models" that enjoys and does alot of bareback videos ...sure we have tests ,work with tested models etc ... but we all know its not a failsafe and the test is really not worth the paper its wrote on ... its about working with people you know history about, have testing track records etc ....

For me its a controlled risk i accept the possibilites, but then i accept the possibilite that i can crash when i get in my car each day etc ..

Another note about a cure .. do you really think the CDC and Pharmo companies will release a cure / vacine immediately upon one be ready lolz .. they have to much money to make at moment on people treating their condiitions rather than eradication of them at present ...

[Prospero]

Liberty wrote: "Another note about a cure .. do you really think the CDC and Pharmo companies will release a cure / vacine immediately upon one be ready lolz .. they have to much money to make at moment on people treating their condiitions rather than eradication of them at present ..."

A good point Ms Harkness. Your cynicism matches mine on this.
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[LibertyHarkness]

its just a fact .. where money is to be made money will be made, its human nature unfortunately, much like its human nature to fuck bareback, human nature to fight each other .....

[Quiet Reflections]

I will stick with condoms and monogamy. you won't ever see me in a line for an HIV/AIDS vaccine unless I know exactly how it was made.