Aids message on Cape Talk?

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waynegohl

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Keino Kammies interviewed a guy who is living with the HIV virus for 25 years or so.
did anyone else hear it as i got so mad with the start of the show and could not get a chance to sms the show.

what bothered me was when Keino asked how he found out he had the virus, the guy said he was living in Australia at the time and saw an advert on the telly so he went to the doctor where he was informed he had the virus. he then said he worked back from there and realised he contracted the virus in 1985 or so whilst he was living in Paris.

well unless i missed something you cannot get infected with Aids/HIV by living in a city.

if you gonna tell these kinda stories and bring the information of Aids/HIV to the nation, tell the people how YOU contracted the virus and not what city you got it in, that just does not make sense and spoils peoples holiday plans.
 
whats wrong with saying he got it whilst living there?
 
gdiza said:
I think it's because he said he lived in the city and got aids and not "i shagged someone up the bum in the city and he gave me aids"
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Well you see now that would be totally wrong as it perpetuates the myth that HIV is a gay disease. Now if he had said I was on holiday and met this totally gorgeous, healthy looking women who I wined and dined for a few weeks, we eventually had sex and that was how I contracted HIV, that would get the message across.

Further to this I think mentioning the city is pretty important as people also have the perception that HIV is purely an African problem. As stated by the OP himself, this now spoils his travel plans.
 
Yeah... agreed, I didn't quite think about that post... but I think I got the point across.

He didn't say HOW he got it, just WHERE he got it.
 
correct whats the point in saying i got it in this city or that city or at that age or whatever, people need to know HOW you get it not where you get it.
 
LancelotSA said:
Well you see now that would be totally wrong as it perpetuates the myth that HIV is a gay disease. Now if he had said I was on holiday and met this totally gorgeous, healthy looking women who I wined and dined for a few weeks, we eventually had sex and that was how I contracted HIV, that would get the message across.
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While you're entirely correct in saying AIDS should not stigmatise gay people, in the beginning of the pandemic in the West it was more prevalent amongst the gay population, hemophiliacs (who received untested blood products) and then subsequently people who shared needles (injectible drug users). Still that does not mean that this is how he got it, he could have received it through heterosexual sex too. In fact it would be very difficult for him to tell exactly when he received the disease. Unless of course his last set of sexual encounters before the test was in Paris with nothing prior.
 
AIDS is transmitted through sexual intercourse. It shouldnt matter if you gay, straight, bi or what ever you choose, the fact still remains you get it through intercourse. And I agree with Waynegohl, that the person should mention that he had intercourse and that is how he contracted aids. Its got nothing to do with paris or paternoster. You have unprotected sex, you going to get aids.
 
Niccia said:
AIDS is transmitted through sexual intercourse. It shouldnt matter if you gay, straight, bi or what ever you choose, the fact still remains you get it through intercourse. And I agree with Waynegohl, that the person should mention that he had intercourse and that is how he contracted aids. Its got nothing to do with paris or paternoster. You have unprotected sex, you going to get aids.
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agreed.
 
Niccia said:
(HIV) is transmitted through sexual intercourse. It shouldnt matter if you gay, straight, bi or what ever you choose, the fact still remains you get it through intercourse. And I agree with Waynegohl, that the person should mention that he had intercourse and that is how he contracted (HIV). Its got nothing to do with paris or paternoster. You have unprotected sex, you going to get aids.
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Any exchange of bodily fluids can result in you contracting HIV! Not just intercourse! It is just that certain activities are regarded as being more risky than others.
 
at a glance i never saw a passage that said by going to Paris or any other place in the world i would contract the virus UNLESS i was doing something naughty.
 
waynegohl said:
at a glance i never saw a passage that said by going to Paris or any other place in the world i would contract the virus UNLESS i was doing something naughty.
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No, but I have seen people repeatedly saying, and agreeing with, comments insinuating that only having unprotected intercourse can lead to you contracting HIV! Not any sexual activities involving the exchange of bodily fluids....

These type of comments cause the exact misunderstandings as to the dangers of HIV that you refer to in your first post. If we are going to be accurate about HIV then all the facts should be put on the table!
 
The guy must have meant that he "did it" while he was in Paris. As for the gay thing, wasnt it statistically gay men who got aids the most in the beginning because of their love of bath houses etc. Because I have heard from many people that the first time they heard of aids way back was when some gay person had it.
 
ok but then he should have said that. how do you teach the world about Aids if you don't tell them where you can get it from. if a person with Aids or the HI Virus is interviewed on Aids day, or any other day for that matter, then that person should say where he or she contracted it.
 
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Niccia said:
AIDS is transmitted through sexual intercourse. It shouldnt matter if you gay, straight, bi or what ever you choose, the fact still remains you get it through intercourse. And I agree with Waynegohl, that the person should mention that he had intercourse and that is how he contracted aids. Its got nothing to do with paris or paternoster. You have unprotected sex, you going to get aids.
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It's transmitted through other activities as well - blood transfusions, needles, paramedics are vulnerable if infected blood gets into their system.

I have ( too infrequently ) had unprotected sex for decades and I don't have AIDS.
 
metalcore said:
As for the gay thing, wasnt it statistically gay men who got aids the most in the beginning because of their love of bath houses etc. Because I have heard from many people that the first time they heard of aids way back was when some gay person had it.
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There were several factors; partly high promiscuity within the gay community (which in itself was driven by being "excluded" by society), but another factor was that it was *reported* in the gay communities first because it was an easily spotted common factor.
 
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