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What If Folks With HIV Could Earn $2,000 a Year for Taking Their Meds?
POZ ^
 | Sept 30, 2025
 | Trent Straube
Posted on 10/03/2025 2:47:49 PM PDT by fwdude
HIV advocate Mackenzie Copley is making a big bet in Las Vegas—and he’s confident it’ll pay off. As founder and CEO of Shine, he’s launching a pilot program that offers financial incentives—$1,000 every six months—to folks living with HIV if they stick to their treatment regimen. 
The goal for participants is to reach and maintain an undetectable viral load. Doing so translates to better overall health, including longer lifespans and fewer opportunistic infections. Importantly, it also means they don’t transmit HIV to others through sex, a fact commonly referred to as Undetectable Equals Untransmittable (U=U).
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KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; isolatethevector; quarantine
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    No words. This is like paying criminals not to commit crime. 
 When you subsidize an activity, you get more of it.
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:47:49 PM PDT
by 
fwdude
 
To: fwdude
    Wouldn’t it cost less to neuter them?
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:49:29 PM PDT
by 
ryderann
 
To: fwdude
    And you have to know that taxpayer money is seeping in here.
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:50:45 PM PDT
by 
fwdude
(Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
 
To: ryderann
    Gays get their reparations.
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:52:36 PM PDT
by 
fwdude
(Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
 
To: fwdude
    I say ship them all to Attu Island in the Aleutians. Leave them there forever. 
 Air drop boxes of Raman noodles every now and then. 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:56:13 PM PDT
by 
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord,  for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever.  — Psalm 106)
 
To: fwdude
To: fwdude
    I don’t have any of that and don’t need the medication. Can I just have the money and they keep the drugs?
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:58:49 PM PDT
by 
HombreSecreto
(The life of a repo man is always intense)
 
To: fwdude
    Can I get paid for taking my thyroid pill?
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posted on 
10/03/2025 2:58:52 PM PDT
by 
Harmless Teddy Bear
(It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
 
To: fwdude
    And this too IS WHY DEMOCRAPS SUCK
 
To: fwdude
    If you have to pay them to stay alive, wouldn’t they just blow that money on Goth clothes, black hair dye, and tattoos?
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:07:58 PM PDT
by 
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
 
To: fwdude
    Well - if the amount of money spent is irrelevant and if the number of lives saved is the objective then why not pay diabetics to take their medicines; there are certainly more diabetics who could die if they don’t take their meds, than there are folks with HIV.
Of course in all of it you can ignore the debt government is in at all levels. /sarc
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:08:20 PM PDT
by 
Wuli
(uire)
 
To: Governor Dinwiddie
    Air drop boxes of Raman noodles...
 They might tend to scatter.
To: fwdude
    what if... we stop encouraging men to stick their peckers into other mens hairly butt holes?
And if they continue to do so, what if... we quarantine them for the rest of their lives to protect the rest of society from their stupidity!
 
To: fwdude; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; ...
    For one thing, if the HIV kills ‘em, they shouldn’t get paid for the full year.
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:13:08 PM PDT
by 
SunkenCiv
(NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
 
To: fwdude
    If the prospect of STAYING ALIVE isn’t enough of an incentive for AIDS patients to take their meds, I doubt that money will do it.
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:14:49 PM PDT
by 
Yo-Yo
(Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
 
To: HombreSecreto
    I don’t have any of that and don’t need the medication. Can I just have the money and they keep the drugs? Good point. They should pay us normals for never contracting HIV. Now THAT would pay off.
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:19:55 PM PDT
by 
fwdude
(Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
 
To: Yo-Yo
    If the prospect of STAYING ALIVE isn’t enough of an incentive for AIDS patients to take their meds, I doubt that money will do it. You should post that comment at the POZ website comments section.
 
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:23:45 PM PDT
by 
fwdude
(Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left?)
 
To: fwdude
    HIV meds ($$$$) are heavily subsidized as is. 
Article's intent is just to give fags more subsidization ideally for controlled substances consumed while participating in orgies or whatever Buttigieg and "wife" engages in (Wife refers to whoever is the catcher at the time).
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posted on 
10/03/2025 3:25:09 PM PDT
by 
rollo tomasi
(Not this world but the next. Faith, justice, humility, hope, and most important, agape.)
 
To: fwdude
    Another way to look at it is FM = MP.
(Free Money means More Promiscuity)
 
To: fwdude
    I always think of the anti-drug campaign commercials with Mercury Morris. Apparently, he spent some time in prison in his post-NFL years (for drug trafficking), and he was selected to do some war on drugs ads after he was released. It struck me how odd it was to have someone who indulged and distributed illegal drugs telling the rest of us what to do. Why not recruit someone who has never contributed to the problem in the first place?
 
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