Posted on 06/25/2010 4:55:24 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama urges all Americans to get tested for AIDS/HIV By Michael O'Brien - 06/25/10 03:24 PM ET
President Barack Obama urged all Americans on Friday to be tested for HIV.
Obama released a statement this afternoon marking National HIV Testing Day on Sunday, and encouraged people to get tested to learn their HIV status, the virus that contributes to AIDS.
"As we mark this day, I would like to renew my call for all Americans to help reduce the risk of infection by getting tested for HIV and learning their HIV status," Obama said in a statement.
"And research shows that people who know their status take better care of themselves and take steps to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV to others," he added. "That is why it is so important that people get tested."
Obama noted the advances in research and treatment of HIV and AIDS since the late 1980s and early 1990s, when AIDS was highly stigmatized and seen as an almost-certain death sentence.
He also called on philanthropic and faith-based groups, among other groups, to get involved in helping to fight AIDS.
"[A]ll of us have a responsibility to reduce our risk and know our status, to continue to support those already affected by this disease, and to fight the stigma and discrimination people still face," he said. "So on this National HIV Testing Day, let us all recommit to do our part to help stop the spread of HIV and AIDS."
i’m probably real dumb for asking this question....but....is the aids test a blood test???
If so, what a great way to capture the DNA profile of all of us???? educate me... ;-(
No way ;-)
LOL!
FUBO
That funny ROFL
BTW I wonder past US President say anything that is common sense get yourself tested
I doubt we hear from past US President Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan or George W Bush COME ON
Fubo - pigs blood, puke, and piss be upon him.
It would be cheaper to just take the red pill.
My guess is that he would say they don't fall into the appropriate risk category which is exactly why I won't get tested.
Maybe it would be more telling if Michelle-Omarosa made the announcement, speaking for spouses of “Homies on the Down-Low”.
I don’t believe you. I truly don’t believe he suggested such a thing. He has impuned the morality of millions with that statement. May God judge him.
Yah, I don’t think I’m one of those people “at risk...”
Mr Obama:
I’m not one of your liberal friends. I don’t do drugs and share needles. I don’t sleep around. I don’t poke my manhood up another guy’s butt.
I don’t have HIV and I won’t get HIV unless you slash the budget for the testing of the blood supply. And that will only come into play if, God forbid (that’s Allah to you), I have a serious accident or health crisis.
gee, I wonder if our insurance will cover the test, let alone the treatment.
I’m low risk having been married and true to my first love for nearly four decades.
I am however PISSED OFF THAT HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO SUGGEST OTHERWISE.
Lesser insults have drawn physical reactions from me.
PACK SAND UP YOUR A_S AND GO TO HELL YOU PISS ANT!
I guess you haven't heard.There's a movement afoot...a *serious* movement....to declare active perverts to be,as a group,fit to donate blood.I kid you not!
When I had major surgery on my hip recently (elective surgery) the surgeon strongly advised that I donate my own blood beforehand so that I could get it back postop.I did so without hesitation!
” PACK SAND UP YOUR A_S AND GO TO HELL YOU PISS ANT!”
I have a feeling something other than sand has been there.
Zero should be tested for idiocy as should First Zero.
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