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To: neverdem

==Those graphs have nothing to do with the decrease of new HIV/AIDS cases where the only risk factor was a transfusion of blood or blood product. They just show new increases in the total of all HIV/AIDS cases.

Let me repeat the question you asked me: “How do you explain the drop in new HIV/AIDS cases after blood was screened for HIV before transfusion of blood and blood products?”

The graph clearly shows that AIDS cases continued their steep rise long after blood began being screened for HIV.


80 posted on 08/02/2008 10:24:01 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts; All
The graph clearly shows that AIDS cases continued their steep rise long after blood began being screened for HIV.

Maybe I should have been more specific about risk factors, but I didn't want to belabor the obvious, i.e. in those who only had recieved blood or blood products. The predominant risk factors, but not the only risk factors for becoming HIV positive, remain male sex with men and injecting drug use. In regards to antiretroviral drug toxicity overall:

HIV Patients Living Longer

Life expectancy of individuals on combination antiretroviral therapy in high-income countries: a collaborative analysis of 14 cohort studies.

N.B. I couldn't find this last abstract at Lancet or PubMed when I posted the first link's thread.

90 posted on 08/03/2008 12:38:28 AM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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