https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/16/health/milwaukee-beaver-county-hiv-rates/index.html
My hometown made the news everyone! This popped up locally a couple days ago but I guess it caught on nationally. Somehow this isn't surprising that this is happening in Beaver County.
Is this the doing of Mike “Fuck the gay away” Stoklasa?
Is it due to sex or dirty needles? There is a heroin epidemic going on.
Judging by the areas, which are p.much in the rust belt. Combination of both, but more dirty needles.
All those AIDS jokes sure hit home now for Rich.
HIV is scary shit man. Really hope they figure out a vaccine in my lifetime.
Beaver county is just a couple minutes away from where I live on the other side of Pittsburgh, and I gotta say... this really doesn't surprise me. Soon as I read the title I was like "Oh boy something tells me my state's gonna be involved somehow." Unfortunately I know of too many people in the area that have absolutely no second thought about catching/spreading STDs and just want to party bareback as much as possible. They don't actively WANT bugs, but just don't care enough to get tested and talk with their partners about this sort of thing. Hopefully in the future, people will be more mindful and learn to care for themselves and others more.
It's all happening at the [i]Man Hole[/i].
I wouldn't be surprised if my area gets listed soon. Northern Atlanta is becoming a hot zone for opioid abuse, put in the fact that jobs are paying the near same as they were 10 years ago and the fact that the area is rapidly becoming gentrified, you're going to see a whole lot of people who are desperate and turn to heroine to get past the stress of living around here. To make matters worse, theres clinics sending out clean needles to help addicts and the state wants to stop it and have a no tollerance policy instead. Get ready for blood borne illness to explode in my area.
"They just don't care" - Literally the motto of everything Beaver County. It's not really a joke a either.
While getting HIV is still a bad idea, if you don't mind taking (currently quite expensive) pills every day the rest of your life (or until we can figure out a way to make you have to take less pills), it's really not too bad. Healthy, well-treated HIV patients will never progress to AIDS with current treatment, and you can expect living basically as long as anyone who doesn't have HIV. Barring the pill taking and side effects, you can basically live like anyone else.
Really wish that plane din't crash down. Fuck all pharmaceuticals, i think the cure is already there but hidden to grab the $
Sure that is an option but just not using dirty needles and dropping 20 dollars for condoms is so much cheaper.
I've read about prep, but unless you're gay/bi the risk of catching HIV is really, really low. What's scary about HIV is not the medical implications, but the social stigma surrounding it. I can't imagine being diagnosed with HIV, then having to contact every partner I've had in the last six months and warn them they may have it, and warning any subsequent partners that I'm positive would be horrible too.
It is? How?
I was under the impression that current HIV medicines still had long-term health impacts, even if they didn't kill you.
I'm assuming you're asking how straight sex vs. gay sex is less risky? Abrasion, mostly. From what I remember of the studies I've read, a healthy male having unprotected vaginal intercourse with an HIV-positive partner has roughly a 1 in 500 chance of becoming infected - switch to anal sex and that number becomes 1 in 50.
Can't cut down on quote length on Newpunch (pls implement), but basically my use of "pills" in plural was simply because you're taking them every day, not necessarily implying you'd take more than one pill a day - I'm Danish and my English is imperfect, but yeah. And while taking only one pill a day is definitely an improvement, when I'm talking "taking less pills", I'm looking towards a future where you won't have to take a pill every day, because we might have more permanent solutions. And personally I think taking a pill a day is still "a lot", though I guess many women do so from a rather young age.
highlight the text you want to quote and then hit "Reply"
Again, what patient groups are treated with only 2 drugs? Also, HAART (which is where the two NRTIs + drug from other group principle originated) is from 1996, so at the very least the principle has been around for a while - can't tell you how widespread it was, and I can't find a graph for life expectancy over time, but the principle of the three drug treatment you're receiving has been around for a long time. Not saying treatment hasn't gotten more effective (it probably has in many ways), but life expectancy improved tremendously in the late 90's, and I don't think the principle of HAART has ever failed (no one has developed resistance to the three drug combo), so I think the surge of recognition lately that HIV isn't a death sentence or necessarily something you'll transmit comes more from longitudinal studies that have confirmed this fact, not because the drug treatment is necessarily principally different from, say, 15 years ago.
Well, I've just had it introduced to me as HAART, so that's what I've used. The distinction seems more technical than in substance (assuming you meant cART) anyway - but anyhow, the principle you're treated by isn't exactly new, which was my point. I'm gonna guess the two-drug pill is for people who want who may have gotten bad side effect from one specific drug - that way they can end up just taking two pills, but have more choice in their medication. That's just an assumption, but I sincerely doubt it's used on its own.
Yeah, anyway I don't think we're really disagreeing about anything, just wanted to clear some stuff up. Glad treatment is working out for you.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
