On World Aids Day I have little to add to what Alwin Hawkins says:
There is no cure for AIDS, and it is not a 'chronic illness' like asthma or diabetes. It kills, and it takes other people down who are unlucky enough to come in intimate contact with it. And the fact that the number of reported cases are rising - and being reported at later stages of the infection - should scare the living shit out of you.It sure as hell scares the hell out of me.
Yeah, me too. And he's talking to and about Americans, who ought to know more about this disease than the citizens of, say, sub-Saharan Africa, India, Thailand, or any of the other places in the world which have seen their infection rates skyrocket. There are citizens of this country who seem to think that anti-retrovirals are a damned vaccine (they're not) and that they can have unprotected sex with impunity (they can't). Complacency kills.
Posted by Linkmeister at December 1, 2003 10:19 AMI read an interesting article in the NYTs a while back about AIDS becoming an IN disease...
Successful drugs, and a cult like commune. I don't understand it, but someone famous wrote the article...I just don't remember who did though. I believe it was someone who had AIDS and wrote the article..
Do you remember reading that Linky???
I may well have, but...lemme think.
Posted by: Linkmeister at December 2, 2003 01:55 PM