AIDS a "manageable condition"?

[Libero]

So this fellow got HIV, then went out and tried to “get it again,” more or less? Like once he had it for instance maybe he had sex with someone else who already had it or something like that?

Apparently so, his partner already had HIV, and they were having protected sex, but he still got HIV. When he found out, he stopped having protected sex, and should therefore have become exposed even more to the virus. Yet, when he went back about a year later, his test came back negative.

His name is Andrew Stimpson if you wanna google it, I would recommend the avert.com news article.

 

[Guar_Fan]

ByzCath:

AIDS always leads to death, there is no cure.

While it is true that there is no cure for HIV infection, it is false to say that AIDS always leads to death. AIDS is diagnosed when a person with HIV also has a CD4 count below 200. Many, many people (I don’t have statistics handy but it has to be in the thousands) have dipped below that threshold and lived… even recovered from AIDS, even though they are still HIV infected.

HIV infection can be managed as a chronic disease, given access to Western medicine. The development of AIDS is a very serious condition. But neither HIV nor AIDS is equivalent to a death sentence for persons living in Western industrialized nations.

P.S.
Why is this thread in the Moral Theology forum?

 

[Friar_David_O.Carm]

Libero:

Apparently so, his partner already had HIV, and they were having protected sex, but he still got HIV. When he found out, he stopped having protected sex, and should therefore have become exposed even more to the virus. Yet, when he went back about a year later, his test came back negative.

His name is Andrew Stimpson if you wanna google it, I would recommend the avert.com news article.

That’s the big lie of “safe” sex. Or “protected” sex.

Condoms have a failure rate as high as 25% (yes some studies show this, others have it lower but for me, I take the worst case scenario when lives are in the balance) even when used properly.

You have better odds playing Russian roulette (16.6666%).

 

[Libero]

That’s the big lie of “safe” sex. Or “protected” sex.

Yes, it is a big shame this entire con that has occured, the conditions for safe sex have to be so concise, people do not realise, and even then, it is not truly safe, just safer.