telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10022664/Scientists-on-brink-of-HIV-cure.html
This is great news. We can only hope and pray the cure comes soon. It would be wonderful if a similar scenario occurred regarding cancer.
if only they would have spent a fraction of the amount of treasure on spreading the word on the one reliable vaccine,chasity
This is good news but I thought there were some very powerful strains out there. I doubt if this could be a cure all.
I don’t think this will bring up the responsibility meter. I think there is a chance it will do more to further the over sexed culture.
Because some people are bad we shouldn’t do something that will help all the innocent victims of HIV? The addicts and the babies and the botched blood transfusions?
(Before anyone goes there: I know drug abuse is wrong. But an addict can hardly be held culpable if he cannot control himself.)
Is there such a thing as “over sexed”.?
I hope it works. We must pray for all the victims of the disease.
?? Yeah, when the products of such casual unions are a choice to dispose of.
And nowadays, I don’t think people in general worry about AIDS or HIV. I think when HIV first got “national acclaim” in the '80s, it scared people. I don’t think that is the case as much anymore. I would say people’s guards are already down. That doesn’t mean that some populations do not have high HIV rates because in fact, they do.
Haven’t they always been promising that the cure is near?
The intention of this post is to show fast facts and to do so using quotes from left-leaning authoritative sources so as not to be accused of having data that is skewed to the right. The quotes speak for themselves since they all say the same thing which is that actively “gay” and bisexual men are by far at highest risk for HIV/AIDS. This is news to those who want to teach homosexual behavior in schools as the “new normal” calling it “marriage”. Using these statistical facts from these authoritative sources who we can be sure are not biased against “gays”, we can raise people’s awareness of the high risks and dangers of living an active homosexual life.
Fast Facts about AIDS
“Gay and bisexual men are more severely affected by HIV than any other group in the United States .” - CDC
“Among all gay and bisexual men, blacks/African Americans bear the greatest disproportionate burden of HIV.” – CDC
“From 2008 to 2010, HIV infections among young black/African American gay and bisexual men increased 20%.” – CDC
“Fighting HIV among African Americans is not mutually exclusive with fighting HIV among gay and bisexual men. Efforts to reduce HIV among Blacks must confront the epidemic among Black gay and bisexual men as forcefully as existing efforts to confront the epidemic among other groups.” - Obama
“Roughly three-fourths of HIV/AIDS cases in the United States are among men, the majority of whom are gay and bisexual men.” - Obama
“Gay and bisexual men have comprised the largest proportion of the HIV epidemic in the United States since the first cases were reported in the 1980s, and that has not changed. They still comprise the greatest proportion of infections nationally.” - Obama
“CDC reports that HIV diagnoses among young gay men (ages 13-24) of all races and ethnicities rose between 2001 and 2006.” – Obama
Objection:
“But that’s not fact with AIDS/HIV worldwide where most of the cases are heterosexual.”
Answer :
That’s ignoring the proportions. There are more heterosexuals with AIDS because there are more heterosexuals. Homosexuals only make up about 2% of the population. One of the primary ways AIDS got into the heterosexual population is because of bisexual men. According to the CDC and President Obama…
“Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most severely affected by HIV. In 2010, MSM accounted for 63% of all new HIV infections” – CDC
“Given the starkness and the enduring nature of the disparate impact on gay and bisexual men, it is important to significantly reprioritize resources and attention on this community. The United States cannot reduce the number of HIV infections nationally without better addressing HIV among gay and bisexual men…Even though gay and bisexual men comprise only two percent of the U.S. population (4 percent of men)” – Obama (bold emphasis given in Obama’s 2010 Whitehouse report)
“Disparities in HIV infection also exist between gay and bisexual men and heterosexual populations. Recently, the CDC announced that gay and bisexual men in the United States are 44 to 86 times more likely to become infected with HIV than heterosexual men, and 40 to 77 times more likely to become infected than women.” – Obama
“Gay and bisexual men comprise the majority of people with HIV who have died in the United States.” - Obama
“1 in 5 Gay/Bi Men Have HIV, Nearly Half Don’t Know” - WebMD
Objection: “But aren’t they were born that way?”
Answer: There’s no such thing as a “gay gene”.
Unlike being able to know what race a baby is, there’s no way to look at a room full of babies and say that any of them are “gay”. Also, people who are born “intersex” are extremely rare and are typically asexual. So they should not even be in the same category as homosexual.
Except for the possibility of a hormonal imbalance, studies suggest it’s more likely caused by social factors such as a sexual or emotional trauma that influenced them to believe they are homosexual. For example, a baby gets molested, and no one in the family ever finds out. Later, the kid starts to think he’s “gay” but doesn’t make the connection to this repressed memory. Most people will admit that they can’t remember anything earlier than 2 or 3 years old.
“In research with 942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation. This research is apparently the first survey that has reported substantial homosexual molestation of girls. Suggestions for future research were offered.” - California School of Professional Psychology
Sources:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
President Obama’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the the the United States 2010 White House Report
WebMD
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11501300
When people like Sandra Fluke and others say the government should be paying for contraception, sex change operations, probably STD treatements, that has to take the responsibility meter down too.
Interesting statistics but what is the point of all of it? Obese people and smokers are more prone to heart disease. Does that mean we should blame obese people and smokers for their disease instead of trying to find a cure? The article here suggests there may be a cure for AIDS. We should rejoice if this turns out to be true.
That’s right!
…and to hope that AIDS is justice for sinners and that we shouldn’t find a cure is a mortal sin. No better than a religious extremist who turns a blind eye to jihadists.
The sheer expense lavished upon a disease that is 100% preventable does puzzle me.
ugh, it is going to be even harder to convince straight people that casual sex is a bad idea because they think AIDS is a gay disease and even if they somehow get it that there will be a cure.
That’s not a vaccine also in a number of poor African nations people are getting it from their spouses and babies are getting it from their mothers.
That response is fallacious as it is a non sequitur.
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HIV was in the heterosexual population in Africa a long time ago, and was going to make the leap at some point regardless.
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That to a large degree that since gay people are much more likely to have it they are more likely to get it.
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Of course you can’t, you have to target the people most likely to get it most to reduce the rate.
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that 1 in 5 statistic has been so stripped of it’s context that it is no longer true, that is to say it is wrong.
Objection:
Objection: “But aren’t they were born that way?”
Answer: There’s no such thing as a “gay gene”.
Unlike being able to know what race a baby is, there’s no way to look at a room full of babies and say that any of them are “gay”. Also, people who are born “intersex” are extremely rare and are typically asexual. So they should not even be in the same category as homosexual.
Except for the possibility of a hormonal imbalance, studies suggest it’s more likely caused by social factors such as a sexual or emotional trauma that influenced them to believe they are homosexual. For example, a baby gets molested, and no one in the family ever finds out. Later, the kid starts to think he’s “gay” but doesn’t make the connection to this repressed memory. Most people will admit that they can’t remember anything earlier than 2 or 3 years old.
“In research with 942 nonclinical adult participants, gay men and lesbian women reported a significantly higher rate of childhood molestation than did heterosexual men and women. Forty-six percent of the homosexual men in contrast to 7% of the heterosexual men reported homosexual molestation. Twenty-two percent of lesbian women in contrast to 1% of heterosexual women reported homosexual molestation. This research is apparently the first survey that has reported substantial homosexual molestation of girls. Suggestions for future research were offered.” - California School of Professional Psychology
Sources:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
President Obama’s National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the the the United States 2010 White House Report
WebMD
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11501300
You can’t look at a room full of babies and say that any of them have sickle cell anemia or cystic fibrosis and yet they are genetic, that analogy is fallacious.
That’s like saying except for genes lead poisoning is the most likely culprit for ADHD; prenatal hormonal imbalance causing homosexuality appears to be the most likely culprit from the data we have.
Turns out most of them were that way before hand, also LGBT people are more likely to admit to being abused than straight people.
No, gluttony isn’t a sin to some people, only gay sex is.
I personally think this is great news! I noticed how others are mentioning chastity as prevention and you make a great point. Chastity is the best way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV. However, I still feel that it would be a good thing to have a cure for this disease which has killed countless people.
Agreed Holly…and even people who are committed to chastity slip up occasionally. Plus, consider the other diseases that research like this could help to control. Retro viruses are very tricky, and advances like this can’t help but be a good thing
I don’t know what else to say other than I completely agree with you. 
I’m puzzled. 
didn’t Jesus not only forgive people of their sins but also heal the sick? Why wouldn’t every Catholic here be in full support of a cure then?
We’re also taught to value human life as ‘sacred’ from conception to death… :shrug: