Life expectancy now 47

Yes that is what happens when you do not educate people about the risks of HIV.

There should also be aggressive ways of combating hiv like branding people with HIV, making it a criminal offense to have sex if you are HIV positive. There should be mandatory testing for everyone in SA.

Interesting how a silly virus like swine flu that kills 200 people has the whole world on alert but someone with AIDS can fly over the world and just infect anyone they sleep with.
 
With our high HIV stats it was to be expected. Thabo's stance is now showing the negative repercussions...
 
hmmm, well, this is an interesting turn of events... maybe it should be mandatory to check what your HIV status is. The only problem with that is that it may create a massive negative stigma... however, by how fast this virus is spreading, it might just kill all infected soon, and burn itself out...
 
Massive negative stigma is just what the damn virus needs FFS, 35% infection rate is farkin out of control.

Stigmatize the Bloody disease and stop this o shame BS. People are infecting others more than likely because they do not know they even have the virus.

If you have unprotected sex and contract the disease you should be branded so people know you are hiv positive.

I am so tired of hearing this stigma BS, it is the main reason aids is spiraling out of control.
 
scotty777 said:
... however, by how fast this virus is spreading, it might just kill all infected soon, and burn itself out...
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This is what makes HIV so deadly - it won't burn itself out. It takes anything from a few years to twenty years to develop visible symptoms so people who have it spread it a lot and unknowingly expose many more people to it.

Examples of virii that burn outnquickly are ebola and West Nile Hemoeraggic fever. These virii kill the victims quickly and have very visible symptoms so fewer people are exposed leading to quick and isolated outbreaks.
 
/ i survived wil be 48 next June. Hoooooooooooooooha i beat the system.
 
BrendanD said:
This is what makes HIV so deadly - it won't burn itself out. It takes anything from a few years to twenty years to develop visible symptoms so people who have it spread it a lot and unknowingly expose many more people to it.

Examples of virii that burn outnquickly are ebola and West Nile Hemoeraggic fever. These virii kill the victims quickly and have very visible symptoms so fewer people are exposed leading to quick and isolated outbreaks.
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yes, but by the looks of things, it seems like HIV has spread a shyte load... and now all those that are infected are reaching their expiry dates.

HIV has a massive delay period between infection and death... so even through people are using condoms now, the fact is that it has already done it's business. So our country, with it's tremendous infection rate, well slowly see people in their 40's keeling over and dying now. But yeah, if people just used condoms now, we will see that less people will be infected, but the rewards of it will only be seen in 10/20 years time!
 
There is also aproblem with anti-retro virals - They increase your quality of life and lifespan which allows you a longer window to infect others.

Unless a cure is developed it's a losing proposition.

Should the individual right (If we can call it a right, since naturally there are no rights.) to quality of life trump survival of the community/species?
 
BrendanD said:
There is also aproblem with anti-retro virals - They increase your quality of life and lifespan which allows you a longer window to infect others.

Unless a cure is developed it's a losing proposition.

Should the individual right (If we can call it a right, since naturally there are no rights.) to quality of life trump survival of the community/species?
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Hmmm, personally, I think we should do something about HIV before is owns the human race... just think about it... kids die before they are reproductively mature... so if HIV keeps spreading the way is it, we will see most of the human race disappear in a few hundred years unless a cure pops up(which I doubt), or all those with HIV suddenly die...

I'm quite two sided on this one though... should we isolate those with HIV, for the greater good, or should we just trust them that they won't spread the virus further :confused:
 
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