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Originally Posted by Taj44
"...As for aids, that's a lifestyle choice. You and I we don't have to get aids. Its not contagious. You get it from being a homosexual or from shooting up needles!! "
That is a pretty bizarre statement. Women have gotten AIDS when their husbands have unprotected sex, and pass it on to them; heterosexual college students have gotten it when they had unprotected sex; a doctor got it from picking up a dirty sheet in the hospital that happened to have a contaminated needle in it; people have gotten it from being treated by a dentist who did not properly sterilize his equipment; the list goes on and on. Individuals from diverse backgrounds, including heterosexual men and women, homosexual men and women, hemophiliacs, sexual partners of hemophiliacs and transfusion recipients, injection-drug users and infants have all developed AIDS.
You're free to contribute your research dollars towards whatever disease cure you wish, but to state that AIDS is a lifestyle choice and to imply that people "asked for it" is incredibly insensitive to say the least.
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If you look at the CDC numbers for HIV/Aids that the largest transmission rates is caused by male to male sexual contact, the second component is iv drug usage, the third is high-risk heterosexual conduct (largely anal sex and sex for money) and the unfortunate few who acquire aids while going about their normal daily activities make up less than 1% of those impacted.
If you do not want aids, avoid anal sex (protected or unprotected) and needle sharing if you use drugs - better yet don't do drugs. I do believe that we need to be more frank and open about the causes of heterosexual transmission. I also believe we should have very aggressive needle exchange programs. Florida has one of the higher aids rates and no education or needle exchange programs.