Posted on 10/05/2015 10:11:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t his first broken condom, so Rafael didn’t worry. But three weeks later, the man he’d met in a bar called to say that he had “probably been exposed” to H.I.V.
Rafael, a muscular, affable 43-year-old, went to a clinic and within 45 minutes learned he was infected. Although it was already closing time, a counselor saw him immediately and offered him a doctor’s appointment the next day.
At Ward 86, the famous H.I.V. unit at San Francisco General Hospital, the doctor handed him pills for five days and a prescription for more. Because he was between jobs, she introduced him to a counselor who helped him file for public health insurance covering his $30,000-a-year treatment.
“They were very reassuring and very helpful,” said Rafael, who, like several other men interviewed for this article, spoke on condition that only his first name be used to protect his privacy. “They gave me the beautiful opportunity to just concentrate on my health.”
Despite bad luck in sex-with-strangers roulette, Rafael did have some good fortune: He lives in San Francisco, which is turning the tide against H.I.V.. The city that was once the epidemic’s ground zero now has only a few hundred new cases a year, the result of a raft of creative programs that have sent infection rates plummeting.
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Welcome to the new world of anti-viral drugs
A sexually promiscuous gay man in San Francisco made it to 43 years without getting HIV, Hep C, syphullus, or rectal cancer? He's already beat the odds.
Rafael, a muscular, affable 43-year-old, went to a clinic and within 45 minutes learned he was infected. Although it was already closing time, a counselor saw him immediately and offered him a doctor’s appointment the next day.
The Faggot was mentally ill before he became virally ill.
Nature abhors certain behaviors, and that's why nature kills off members of a species which engage in these abhorrent behaviors.
AIDS = Anally Inflicted Death Sentence.
If they want to really send the HIV infection rates “plummeting”, they’ll quit buggering each other.
So now we’re on the hook for $30K year because this guy put a stranger’s Johnson up his arse? I wish I could get paid for every dumb thing I ever did - I’d never have to work again.
Anally injected death serum.
Semper Fi, Mac!
I would advise against reading this article anywhere in the proximity of a meal, either before or after. It is truly barf inducing.
Maybe he just "went gay" last year?
‘“They gave me the beautiful opportunity to just concentrate on my health.”’
Amazing...he knowingly risked his life for a perversion yet was shown great mercy and grace. If he recovers fully will he continue his perverse way? Will he even understand the great favor done him? Im thinking probably not in both cases.
Um.... he has HIV/AIDS. There is no full recovery. He'll likely live a shorted, lower quality life as a result.
And in a similar vein, if we all had a dollar for every penis we willingly put in our anuses, we’d have zero dollars.
We also wouldn’t have a fatal disease whose vector is well known and is easily avoidable.
Why do these people get free 30,000 a year treatment?
Jesus we are kiling elderly people for being old by penny pinching and these perverts get full perversity funding.
"'We didn’t want it to feel like a jail cell,' said the nursing director, Pierre-Cedric Crouch, wearing the clinic’s signature 'No Blame/No Shame' T-shirt. 'And we have no stigma. You can come in saying you just slept with 20 guys and don’t know what a condom is, and we don’t criticize you. We help you out.'"
Help him out? What?!!
"The Magnet Clinic ... did 9,600 H.I.V. tests last year. It lies in the heart of the Castro, the city’s rainbow-flag-bedecked gay mecca, and resembles a cheery cellphone store: The waiting room has couches, flowers, disco music and photographs of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a campy drag troupe. A mobile of smiling penis toys dangled over one examination table."
Obviously family friendly (barf!!!)
"In 2012-13, Lincs [Linkage into Care teams] “navigators” searched for 315 missing H.I.V. patients and enrolled 116 of them — the rest were not found, or were jailed, dead or refused help. Navigators call and text patients, visit them and even escort them to doctors."
What's not mentioned is that ALL of them are ongoing vectors of infection.
“Maybe he just “went gay” last year? “
Well, then, he sure made up for “lost time.”
How is this HIS good fortune?
Only a deranged leftist could see some benefit to adding a few chambers to the cylinder of a revolver that someone is playing Russian Roulette with.
Perhaps living in San Francisco is his curse before it is his "good fortune." Who knows that he would never have caught the virus had he lived in more conservative climes rather than in this environment that encourages sexual license.
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