Well, it seems the great dream of a HIV vaccine has suffered yet another setback.
For those of you who don't know, Merck has been conducting trials of what the company had hoped would be an HIV vaccine. After 10 years in development, trials conducted using those at high-risk of infection (including gay men and sex workers) proved that the drug was ineffective at preventing HIV.
So, now I guess it is back to the drawing board. This just goes to show no matter how much promise something shows, everyone should keep making progress towards their own ideas/individual solutions.
Hopefully one day a vaccine will be found, or better yet a cure, but ubtil that day comes, remember to practice safe sex everybody /end public service announcement
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Like AIDS and HIV are the only venerable diseases...? It seems to me our problem with casual sex has created rapid outbreaks of everything...it is stupid to think that once AIDS has a preventative shot or cure that everything will get better. I would ate to see a mutant strain of these diseases...
No, they aren't you are perfetly right there. However, it has had the most impact in recent years on people, and is pushed into the spotlight far more than others and is truly only one reason to practice safe sex or abstinence, whichever is preffered, which depends on the risks you are willing to take.
Though I am unclear on the issue, aren't there already "Super" strains of HIV or AIDS?
As for casual sex, its as old as human history, its always been there in all reality. Today is no different, many do perform in casual sex, or premarital sex, etc. It was only recently, however, that STDs were really concentrated on. And now with abstinece-only sex ed, which assumes the participants will automatically not have sex afterwards, they only learn about the diseases, but don't know what to do to protect themselves from the diseases if they decide to have sex.
-Dan
thats for sure...yes there are some mean strains of AIDS...and it is scary to think that there are four (or more?) cancerous HPV strains....and we are still learning. I guess, I know what the consequences are for my decisions so I am very careful...but it is very scary to think about any of it...People with AIDS planting needles in cinema seats, Hepatitis lurking on tables, the list goes on...Ugh.
People who do stuff like planting needles on seats need to be arrested, and be treated for some form of mental illness, or they are really bitter and just dont care about anyone or anything, as long as others suffer like they do.
-Dan
spurs paranoia...When I heard about a case, can't remember when I had anxiety going to the movies...Ugh. But yes, they should be made to pay for all expenses and be charged criminally. That is taking someone's life away out of spite for your own wrongs....That's not right.
I'm not entirely sure of the details, but I think one person who did that's victim died incredibly quickly of HIV/AIDS and the perpetrator who injected him ended up being charged with murder
-Dan
That is the worst thing someone could do. Usually choice gets you into those binds, and to be forced to share someone's fate (AIDS) is horrendous. It makes me very angry. I have a child and would kill somebody if they hurt her...I guess I always look at situations thru the eyes of a mother, and that was somebody's child...*Frustrated Sigh*
Don`t worry too much. It`s just an urban legend. About 15 years ago, someone sat on a stray needle and sued the theatre, but there was no indication it was deliberately left there and it wasn`t infected with anything. It looks like that`s what started the `What if...`` scenarios and then chain letters started going out.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/madmen/pinprick.asp
Men suspected of deliberately injecting gay men with HIV-infected blood.....
http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007/05/groningen_hiv_suspect_is_a...
HIV virus is constantly changing. It's almost impossible at the moment to predict how HIV works precisely because it varies from each individual. Even if the vaccine is found one day, there are still going to be bug chasers and gift givers who are glad to be HIV positive. lol Well, I'm not 100% sure they will be glad...but it's probably better than being depressed over it...right?
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I do not believe in safe sex, whether one is married or in a relationship, one is never safe.
All of my friends are married and they “ALL” cheat their wives, and I know half of their wives cheat to, although they are more discreet about it!
Sadly enough, It is naïve to think we are safe!
There are still ways to have a sexual relationship without risk of infection.
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Example...Mutual manual stimulation is one of the safest.
I can think of about a thousand things people can do to get off without risking pregnancy or HIV. It`s always seemed like a shame to me that millions of people think that if they`re going to go beyond kissing, they`ve got to go immediately for whatever puts them at highest risk for destroying their lives (most especially unprotected penile vaginal or penile anal penetration with a stranger} . Sex can be totally safe.
One person here made the interesting comment of knowing someone who would only have sex without condoms because that way it meant committing `only one sin instead of two.` Sexual repression really screws some people up.
Hate to burst your bubble but it is still possible to spread VD's like chlamydia and herpes through mutual manual manipulation. If you are touching yourself, and another, ect. this is very possible, and even probable.
I'm not discouraging you from participating in sex; I'm just pointing out the facts here. Sexual contact of any kind, where fluids can be swapped, and even through manual stimulation this can happen, can potentially spread venereal diseases.