Is AIDS still popular in America?

[Akrazotile]

What's the deal with AIDS these days? You still hear about it but there's not these huge awareness campaigns like back in the day. You mostly hear about it as still a problem in Africa n stuff. Yeah there's still PSA's about getting tested in stuff but America its profile is much much lower now. Did they stop people from spreading it here or somethin?

I remember back in the day all the celebrities were catchin AIDS. Magic, Eazy, Freddy Mercury, Arthur Ashe, Gil Scott-Heron, Greg Lougainis, George Michael's boyfriend, all sorts of cats. That's when the AIDS game was poppin.

Nowadays you don't really hear about anyone famous getting AIDS, even though you know there's still plenty of famous people engaging in at-risk behavior.


So what's goin on with this thing? Did we get that shit quarantined? I'm glad if there's less people gettin it and stuff, I'm just wondering how. It's not like people aint still messin around unprotected.

[joe]

AIDS = Justin Bieber

Both were thought to be strictly homosexual for some time, even while they spread their cells into countless females

[falc39]

There have been some medical advances that help people with hiv or aids and also help lower the chances of transmission. Although it is still incurable from what I understand.

[oh the horror]

I think once it ceased to be a death sentence people stopped taking it so heavily. You know how people are...if it isn't an immediate threat to their lives then they hardly give a shit.

[T_L_P]

People who have HIV can live pretty normal lives now.

And it's incredibly hard to catch it.

[dunksby]

AIDS vaccine successfully tested on monkeys (http://allafrica.com/stories/201502200962.html)

Abuja — A new compound has blocked Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infection so well in monkeys that it may be able to function as a vaccine against Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), the scientists who designed it reported midweek. The study was published online by the journal Nature.

Meanwhile, the Nigerian Veterinary Medical Association (NVMA) yesterday issued concerns over the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) resurgence in the country.

While the association is optimistic that if Nigeria works together as a nation, it could conquer the disease like the Ebola Virus Disease; it also called on all veterinary doctors to consider the resurgence of the disease, also known as Bird Flu, as a professional challenge and should quickly rise to the occasion.

HIV has defied more than 30 years of conventional efforts to fashion a vaccine. The new method stimulates muscle cells to produce proteins that somewhat resemble normal antibodies, which have Y-shaped heads. These proteins have both a head and a tail, and they use them to simultaneously block two sites on each "spike" that the virus uses to attach itself to a cell.

If both sites can be blocked on every spike, the virus becomes helpless and drifts off unattached into eventual oblivion by the immune system.

Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) United States, which supported the work, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, said: "It's a twofer. It's very impressive, and the method is quite promising. But it's still just in an animal model, so we'll need to see evidence of whether it works in humans."

The technique, the paper's lead author said, had completely protected four monkeys for nearly a year against repeated attempts to infect them with large doses of several strains of SHIV, a version of HIV adapted for use in lab monkeys.

[CP343]

AIDS = Justin Bieber

Both were thought to be strictly homosexual for some time, even while they spread their cells into countless females

And unfortunately, Bieber is still popular in America.

[Jailblazers7]

Two reasons probably.

1: AIDS deaths per 100k people in the US plummeted

http://www.newrepublic.com/sites/default/files/article_inset_hobbes_graph_645_0.jpg

2: White people stopped getting it

http://img.thebody.com/bai/2008/lft_bhnd_two_ep.jpg

[senelcoolidge]

People are living longer with AIDS, but hoes are still spreading HIV.

[LEFT4DEAD]

People are living longer with AIDS, but hoes are still spreading HIV.
No they are not. People die very fast from AIDS. But those, who are infected with HIV, can probably live longer than someone not infected.

The main objective of the therapy the doctors are using nowdays is not to allow HIV to cause the AIDS in a human body.

The therapy lowers the amount of HIV virus to not recognizable in blood level.
But the virus hides so good in human body that there is no a known way to destroy it completely. As long as you use the therapy you have no worries with it. But if a patient would stop with the use, the virus would again reproduce to a higher level and would be able to cause AIDS again. Thats the reason why infected have to use the therapy till the end of their lives.

And to clear that at the beggining. Those infected would probably live longer because usualy they change their lives completely. They eat healthier, they do sports, and they care more about themselves.