HIV/AIDS in the 'industry' ?

[Jerryme7]

Rebekka Armstrong is pretty hot. So sad that a beautiful woman such as her has this disease:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Rebekka%20Armstrong&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

[columbusdude82]

Is it true that Derek Anthony got the HIV? I heard that somewhere... OMG now i feel so bad for picking on him...

[timfogarty]

It used to be that a positive test result meant death in 12-24 months. 

that would mean that everyone who was diagnosed before meds became available in the early 1990s would have died in less than 2 years.  that was never the case.  I know many people who became positive in the early to mid 1980s who didn't start meds until the mid 1990s and are doing fine today.

[arce377]

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[BayGBM]

that would mean that everyone who was diagnosed before meds became available in the early 1990s would have died in less than 2 years.  that was never the case.  I know many people who became positive in the early to mid 1980s who didn't start meds until the mid 1990s and are doing fine today.

Not necessarily.  In the early days many men were not diagnosed until years after having contracted the virus.  In that time they suffered symptoms that they or their doctors misdiagnosed or attributed to other less serious conditions.  This period between infection and diagnosis left a wide window for transmission to many other people—including X patients who would not get debilitatingly sick but could carry and transmit the virus as well.

Sadly, lots of people did die before 1990; many of them did not know they were infected until they had full blown AIDS.

It’s great you know people who are doing fine today.  My main point is that even with meds, more than 90% of positive patients will have a good, but far from normal, life expectancy. 

[G]

How long after a risky sexual encounter a test can detect wether you have the virus or not?

[timfogarty]

Not necessarily.  In the early days many men were not diagnosed until years after having contracted the virus.  In that time they suffered symptoms that they or their doctors misdiagnosed or attributed to other less serious conditions.

first you said 2 years between a positive test and death.  but now you're saying 2 years between full blown AIDS and death.

[timfogarty]

How long after a risky sexual encounter a test can detect wether you have the virus or not?

with today's tests, 2-12 weeks

http://www.aids.org/info/testing.html

[Special Ed]

AIDS is another great SCARE TACTIC SCAM perpetrated on the American people. Like Sam Kinison said fifteen years ago, "Name one straight man who's died of AIDS he got from heterosexual sex." We're still waiting.

Magic Johnson, who I never believed had the virus in the first place, is alive and well with no sign of deterioration.
Gene Simmons, who banged 15,000 skanks without a condom, got lucky 15,000 times?
Tommy Lee, who's banged 10,000 skanks without a condom, got lucky 10,000 times?

I'm still not buying it. IMHO, the 'AIDS epidemic' was meant to scare people, especially young people, into using condoms to prevent unwanted pregnancies and abortions.

Unless someone can explain that theres something else that differentiates a drug-abusing, alcoholic, sex-addict's immune system from a typical gay or IV drug user victim...

Special "HiV for Hi Vendetta" Ed

[warrior_code]

hey bay, my universities(u of Manitoba) Immunology department  is actually studying one of the most interesting topics dealing with aids.  There was a few african sex workers who actually were/are immune to HIV.  They had intercourse with HIv positive people yet did not contract the virus.  Amzing. I believe it was a mutation in their T-cells that lended them immunity.  The scientists here are trying to make a vaccine mimicing this mutation, I have one of them as my prof, really neat stuff.  you may want to google it, it is cool stuff, 

[Adam Empire]

hey bay, my universities(u of Manitoba) Immunology department  is actually studying one of the most interesting topics dealing with aids.  There was a few african sex workers who actually were/are immune to HIV.  They had intercourse with HIv positive people yet did not contract the virus.  Amzing. I believe it was a mutation in their T-cells that lended them immunity.  The scientists here are trying to make a vaccine mimicing this mutation, I have one of them as my prof, really neat stuff.  you may want to google it, it is cool stuff, 

Good post - got any more info on this?

[BayGBM]

hey bay, my universities(u of Manitoba) Immunology department  is actually studying one of the most interesting topics dealing with aids.  There was a few african sex workers who actually were/are immune to HIV.  They had intercourse with HIv positive people yet did not contract the virus.  Amzing. I believe it was a mutation in their T-cells that lended them immunity.  The scientists here are trying to make a vaccine mimicing this mutation, I have one of them as my prof, really neat stuff.  you may want to google it, it is cool stuff, 

Do you have link referencing this info?

My other half is an epidemiologist so, through him, I keep abreast of a lot of medical news including research news on HIV.  I have read info about X patients who contract the virus and live healthy lives for many years with little or no drug regiment but I have never heard of people who cannot contract the virus at all if they were sufficiently exposed to it.  Again, a link (especially from the university) would be helpful.

[G]

What does "sufficiently exposed " mean?.... you are either exposed or not...I dont think there is more or less exposed, ...right?

[nycbull]

that would mean that everyone who was diagnosed before meds became available in the early 1990s would have died in less than 2 years.  that was never the case.  I know many people who became positive in the early to mid 1980s who didn't start meds until the mid 1990s and are doing fine today.

Before the new meds, if you were diagnosed with AIDs, not just HIV, and a T-cell below 300 or something like that then you didn't have much time, but if you just had HIV you could still live a full life.

[nycbull]

What does "sufficiently exposed " mean?.... you are either exposed or not...I dont think there is more or less exposed, ...right?

you actually need a large amount of the virus to get it sexually. The immune system does fight it off at first.

[the shadow]

AIDS is fun

[blinky]

AIDS is fun

what a stupid comment.

SHUT THE HELL UP! 

[Monster_Everything]

 this type of comment on a sensitive topic should require a banning !!!!

AIDS is fun

[BayGBM]

What does "sufficiently exposed " mean?.... you are either exposed or not...I dont think there is more or less exposed, ...right?

It means there are different kinds of sexual contact: foreplay, kissing, handjobs, oral, vaginal, anal.  Where did the guy ejaculate?

I know someone--an M.D. no less--who says he contracted HIV via oral sex.  He has a problem with bleeding gums and that was apparently the “intimate contact” that led to his exposure.  That is possible, as is exposure thru sharing needles with an infected person. But most (gay men) contract the virus by anal reception.

[G]

you actually need a large amount of the virus to get it sexually. The immune system does fight it off at first.

correct me if i'm wrong , but if the female is infected the chances of the guy of catching the virus from oral and anal are very slim, and high chance from vaginal....I think I've actually read that somewhere....

[blinky]

Rebekka Armstrong is pretty hot. So sad that a beautiful woman such as her has this disease:

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Rebekka%20Armstrong&btnG=Google+Search&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

thats pretty wild. ive seen pics of her around and read different things about her but never knew she had HIV.

[the shadow]

 this type of comment on a sensitive topic should require a banning !!!!

still following my posts through out getbig...

[timfogarty]

I have read info about X patients who contract the virus and live healthy lives for many years with little or no drug regiment but I have never heard of people who cannot contract the virus at all if they were sufficiently exposed to it.  Again, a link (especially from the university) would be helpful.

it depends on what  'cannot contract the virus' mean.

and you keep saying "X patients".  you might want to google "HIV long term non-progressors"

[Monster_Everything]

correct me if i'm wrong , but if the female is infected the chances of the guy of catching the virus from oral and anal are very slim, and high chance from vaginal....I think I've actually read that somewhere....

I had my professor at rutgers say that ...Women can catch the diasease 100 times greater likelihood than HETERO sexual men.....gays, thats a diff story due to one's sexual practices.

[blinky]

still following my posts through out getbig...

how about we get some gay guy with AIDS to ass rape you..then tell us how fun AIDS is

IJIT