Posted on 10/16/2019 12:34:34 PM PDT by fwdude
Overall, privately insured people with HIV have inadequate adherence to their daily antiretroviral (ARV) regimen during their first year on treatment and proceed to adhere more poorly as years pass, the National AIDS Treatment Advocacy Project reports.
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I am not surprised that people who have high risk lifestyles are not that good at adhering to behavior or habit that reduce those risks. Maybe their brain are wired that way.
They, the Left, the media, and some in the health care industry have sought for decades to play down any personal responsibility with this disease.
There has been talk of not restricting them from donating blood anymore.
I have never understood this. Imagine some of the diseases from the past, if they had done the same thing they are here.
Arthur Ash was not available for comment
“Overall, privately insured people with HIV have inadequate adherence to their daily antiretroviral (ARV) regimen during their first year on treatment and proceed to adhere more poorly as years pass, ...”
This lede implies that private insurance is somehow related to poor adherence to the treatment regime. In fact, these data are from a private insurance database, not a government insurance database.
There’s no reason to believe that Medicaid patients are more responsible, and many reasons to believe they aren’t.
A good % of people are pretty bad at taking their daily medication/following directions. That goes for everything from heart medicine to HIV meds. I certainly wouldn’t want to bet my life that the person I was sleeping with was doing so.
Undetectable means 40 HIV copies per millilitre of blood. Who’s for a pint of that poison to virtue signal? Anyone?
Nrither was the Queer Mayor Pete
The latest loosening of restrictions to one year since last same-sex encounter have actually made them ANGRIER. Big surprise.
This blood donation thing is a huge mess. Queers are demanding that the minimum 2 weeks be their abstinent period and that their restrictions on blood donation be applied EXACTLY to straight married couples when screening for risky donations. By doing so, they are going to reduce the blood supply exponentially, because life-long, monogamous married men and women would then have to wait the minimum 2 weeks, the time for HIV antibodies to be detected in the blood after infection. How many NORMAL people will this knock out of the donating population? Probably at least half.
But queers don't care. Just necessary collateral damage in their fight for cultural supremacy.
exactly
I gotta man up and plead guilty there, esp. if I don’t have a set daily routine where it’s become a step in it. I take three daily BP meds, two diabetes meds (one 2x daily), a reflux med, neuropathy meds 4x daily, a weekly shot, and a couple others as-needed, and I can be bad about forgetting and ended up taking my mornng meds in the afternoon or evening, just to get them in me. I’m especially bad about giving myself my shot.
Food for thought for sure...
Ridiculous!
You can safely say that about many groups, not just gay people. I know so many people who don’t adhere to their diabetes plan, their mental health medication even their heart medication. FAKE NEWS.
I agree to an extent. However since non-compliance with HIV treatment adherence is very likely to put others at risk I put that risk at a higher level of denial than failure to follow a diet.
Does engaging in extremely risky behavior (not just sexual) again and again somehow alter brain chemistry so that reducing that risk is almost like going through withdrawal?
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