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[mindmetoo]

http://monkeyfilter.com/link.php/14631

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[Alyallen]

What? What? What?

[mindmetoo]

[Bondrock]

To quote Mr T: "I pity the Foo."

[mindmetoo]

[canuckistan]

They're splitting hairs in a very bullsh*tty way.

A body/immune system weakened by HIV remaining untreated is left open to developing fully-blown AIDS and very particular kinds of opportunistic diseases: Kaposi's sarcoma etc.

[djsmnc]

It's just a theory. Theories can be tested. Nothing wrong with postulating theories. Unless you hate science.

[RACETRAITOR]

You know something is wrong with a culture when they ignore the doctors and turn to the Foo Fighters for important sounding medical questions.

[mindmetoo]

[demaratus]

Mindmetoo is correct. Theories like this encourge people to believe that hiv isn't a big deal (because it apperently doesn't cause aids). People who believe this are less likely to be tested for hiv and also less likey to use HAART treatment if they do have it. Hiv isn't cureable, it may never be but it is becoming more treatable. People with the virus are living much longer lives as a result of haart and other new treatments. If hiv doesn't cause aids then why are people with hiv virtually the only people who get Kaposi's Sarcoma, Cytomeglovirus, Toxoplasmosis ect... Which normally healthy people almost never get or are able to fight off easily?

There is nothing wrong with supporting people living with hiv, in fact I think its great. But I think that the group here is maybe trying to lessen the stigma of people living with hiv and taking it too far.

[djsmnc]

Well, Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain and the Foo Fighters were never even half as good as Nirvana, and she probably has HIV. Dave Grohl was probably in on the murder and is now trying to cover up the fact that she has HIV.

[dutchy pink]

I'm tempted to say that nobody in their right mind believes this, but that would be obviously wrong. i don't really understand the agenda in this. But, to be fair, it is somewhat accurate. HIV weakens your immune system, and when it is weaked to a certain point, it is called AIDS. But really, you don't die of AIDS, you die of some other complications. I believe, on death certificates of AIDS deaths, it says, .... died of complications related to AIDS. It doesn't state AIDS was the exact cause of death.
In practical terms you died because of AIDS, but something else actually killed you.

[mack4289]

The Foo Fighters aren't the only ones and their views are advanced when compared to those of Jacob Zuma, the ex-Deputy President of South Africa:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4879822.stm

"South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected.

... Before being sacked as deputy president last year, Mr Zuma headed the government's National Aids Council and the Moral Regeneration Campaign."

[dutchy pink]

"South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected"

I lived and worked in Mozambique for 8 month at a teacher's training school/health center. One of the main goals of the project was to promote AIDS awareness. One day, when discussing AIDS and how it affects us personally, one of the more senior advocates explained that her uncle died of AIDS recently because he shared a toothbrush with an HIV+ person.

This was somebody who was a key AIDS awareness activist in the area.

[yingwenlaoshi]

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