Posted on 10/21/2022 7:20:46 AM PDT by fwdude
Preliminary results from a survey of stigma and discrimination conducted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show that people living with HIV in Europe are as likely to have experienced stigma in recent years as a decade ago. This is particularly the case with some types of stigma experienced in healthcare settings, where the fear of stigma, and to some extent the reality, are if anything stronger than ever. These early results were announced at the fifth Standards of Care meeting organised by the European AIDS Clinical Society in Brussels last week.
The survey was devised in collaboration with three community organisations: the European AIDS Treatment Group (EATG), AIDS Action Europe, and the UK's National AIDS Trust.
(Excerpt) Read more at aidsmap.com ...
I guess these AIDS organizations are losing fundraising steam so they have to start creating scare tactic ads again.
With all the attention on the ChiCom WuHuFlu, The Red Ribbon Gang must be feeling sort of left out.
So gotta they dig this up and get people to understand “We’re still here!”?
Burn it all down.
There they go again. Commie RATS stirring up the crap just before the elections. With HIPAA and all, how do the “discriminators” know somebody has AIDS?
Stigma and discrimination of (fill in the balnk- could be a ything such as ...) Christians and God’s word by gay people is an issue as ever.
They tell us - incessantly.
Unless they want to have sex with us.
Oh, but all stigma and discrimination is not equal.
It is not an issue at all. F@ggots should be ostracized from normal society. They are perverts and they are abnormal. That they get nasty diseases is an inevitable part of their lifestyle.
These people should be discriminated against, and nobody should give a crap when they die. They are a piece of evil that the world is better off without.
Strong words, but I don’t disagree with them. Thanks for the refreshing shot of truth. WE need more of that.
First, there are two types of people with HIV/AIDS:
- those who acquired it willfully through illicit, perverted sexual behavior
- those who contract it through no fault of their own, through medical procedures involving blood products unknowingly infected, or through relations with a spouse who is unknowningly infected.
The later group most definitely deserve our sympathies, as long as they do not become advocates of the behavior which is the main vector of the disease.
The former group are as condemnable as you describe. But, if any of them convert to the truth, and disclaim their former life as wicked, I can have compassion on them.
Sorry they have AIDS, don’t want to be their “blood brother.”
Yep, just like for typhoid.
A smaller survey conducted recently in Ireland, largely answered by healthcare workers who were not HIV specialists, found that although 83% claimed knowledge of 'Undetectable = Untransmittable' (U=U) and treatment as prevention, 40% said they would still be nervous about drawing blood from a person with HIV. Many took unnecessary precautions such as wearing gloves or even two pairs of gloves at all times when treating people with HIV.
Sorry, but this "U = U" crap needs to be exposed for the fallacy it is. First of all, studies involved in developing this meme suffer from the Hawthorne Effect, where people behave differently when they know they are being watched, and are much more apt to be on their best behavior, taking precautions they wouldn't take in a real-world environment. We really don't know that undetectable IS untransmittable, only that it fulfills the narrative.
Secondly, "undetectable" is not a static state of infection. People with HIV are constantly in flux regarding their viral load, as medicine doses are unwittingly missed (perfect adherence is a fairy tale,) the virus mutates to a form more immune to the current medications, or a new virus variant is introduced through subsequent sexual exposures. The most at-risk populations are tested for their HIV viral levels at 3-month intervals at most. Who knows what has transpired in their status during that 3 months between checkups?
They're talking about a blood draw. There is nothing "unnecessary" about sterile procedure during a blood draw. AIDS isn't the only disease in the world and activists need to stop acting like it is.
GOOD! Embarrassing crap like that aught to be kept private. I am a human being and will use any chink in your armor I can find. It’s even easier if you just give me the ammo.
Too bad. Live in SF instead of Europe. I don’t care
But it's a disease that is specific to THEM, and they're "special."
Why is it even necessary to tell someone you have AIDS? This is what I don’t get. They get the ultra-special protection of their privacy (they don’t even need to tell sexual partners they are infected) and modern treatment protocols make it highly unlikely to pass it on to sexual partners. So, why the pressing need of openness?
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