[DungeonMaster]

Oh let em have their fun. Surely there'll be a cure soon. {wink wink nudge nudge}

[Froufrou]

"America is more interested on treating this disease than preventing it. We can't treat our way out of this epidemic, even as a rich country."

America is more interested in rampant sexual fantasy than the safety and security of mongamy.

[TheOracleAtLilac]

and this trend is a bad thing ?

reminder: AIDS is a voluntary disease.

[Obadiah]

"America is more interested on treating this disease than preventing it. We can't treat our way out of this epidemic, even as a rich country."

NEWSFLASH: Stop engaging in homosexual activity.

[ClearCase_guy]

New incidents of this disease could drop to Zero overnight. Literally.

That's not true for very many diseases, but it is for AIDS. Yet they refuse to take the step to make it happen. So many lives could be saved, but these selfish people don't care.

[Billthedrill]

...the infection rate is set to soar as the population ages...

Given that the new cohort is meth shooters aging may not be as much of a problem as the numbers suggest.

[RepoGirl]

It never ceases to amaze me. We've had this disease on the social landscape since 1980. The forecasts, back then, of the great plague wiping out straights and gays alike never happened. It remains, as it did then, a problem for a select few: IV drug users and gay men.

Despite all the advances in drugs, 'the boys' continue to party, and only after they're positive do they realize, "Oh, hey, actions have consequences. Who'd a thunk!?"

I'm one of those hard hearted broads, I guess. I've lost too many friends to the disease (each contracted through irresponsibility and an almost arrogant disregard for cause and effect) to care any more.

You pays yer buck you takes your chances.

[zook]

This story's gonna leave a lot of readers with a bad taste in their mouth.

[dfwgator]

Come on everybody, we've got quilting to do.

[The Blitherer]

Romans 1:27

In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.

Hey, I'm not the one who said it.

[pissant]

Bummer. There is a 100% foolproof way to not get AIDS. Quit buggering each other.

[Old Professer]

Generations of gay men are at risk?

[Tired of Taxes]

Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC's National Center for HIV, said the surge in infections among gay men could partly be explained by the growing use of methamphetamines, a drug that enhances sexual appetites and can drive users into risky sex.

It's just driving them into it. As if they have no control over the actions. It's the pill's fault. And the pill just jumps into their mouths.

[longtermmemmory]

What happened to "living with aids"?

Does anyone know the current lifespan of a person who tests positive? Is it still 8 years?

[traditional1]

Sadly, lessons are sometimes learned only the hard way (no pun intended)....

If you chose to take your chances, you chose to suffer the consequences of the risk you take.

Only in the mind of Liberals are all the faggots considered "victims", where their lack of responsibility is supposed to be the burden on others to fund help for them.

Same is true in ALL cases of irresponsible behior from criminal elements: the TAXPAYER has to foot the bill for their idiocy.

[upchuck]

The "cure" for AIDS is to do nothing.

People make a conscious decision to put themselves in a position (pun very much intended :) where they may become infected. Thus, AIDS is a voluntary disease.

If left to its own devices, it will eventually die out.

Some may try and shoot holes in this idea by bringing up smoking and saying that means cancer is also a voluntary disease. Only partially true. There are many forms of cancer that are NOT caused by smoking. The same cannot be said for AIDS.

[Gay State Conservative]

Why don't these amoral misfits just shoot themselves in the head.It would save those of us who subsidize the price of their treatment many,many billions of dollars...money that could be spent "for the children".

[PeterPrinciple]

I remember a pastors sermon in which he said he could prophesy. He said the essence of old testament prophecy was that "if you continue doing what you are doing, something bad is going to happen to you". In that light, he said we should all be doing more prophesying today.

Well, here goes........If the homersexuals continue to do what they are doing, something bad is going to happen to them.

[AmericaUnite]

The US has been teaching AIDS prevention.
Starting in 5th or 6th grade here on LI. I'm sure the marijuana libertarians here know the government should stay out of private behavior.
Getting high doesn't lower inhibitions (and education) does it?
Drugs which are fat soluble and therefore stay in the body a month don't affect risky behavior. Do they?(sarcasm)

[Elsiejay]

But, but, but!! Don't we know that everyone is equally susceptible to this disorder? (Just a tinge of sarcasm)

Is there any reason to doubt, based on experience, that actions have consequences?