[fwdude]

An academic article with lots of stats, but the bottom line is that not very many HIV-infected people are effectively “safe.” There goes the “U = U” (Undetectable = Untransmittable) lie. If “undetectable” isn’t a permanent, static condition, then neither is “untransmittable.”

[lastchance]

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.

[DoughtyOne]

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.

[VanShuyten]

“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.

[Stravinsky]

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.

[Antioch]

Undetectable means 40 HIV copies per millilitre of blood. Who’s for a pint of that poison to virtue signal? Anyone?