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HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58834]

Thu, 24 September 2009 10:22

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800

I was very heartened to hear about this on the radio this morning: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsindex.php?id=442189

We should not, however, be throwing our hats in to the air and discarding condoms. 30% effectiveness is massive progress but is not yet cause for celebration or stopping safe sex.

Even 100% effectiveness does not mean stopping safe sex. Hepatitis is awful, Chlamydia has almost no symptoms, and no-one wants HPV.

So there is hope for the future. Many more development hours have to happen before there is a vaccine on the general shelf.

So, until then, What are you doing for World AIDS Day?

[Updated on: Thu, 24 September 2009 10:23]

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58835 is a reply to message #58834]

Thu, 24 September 2009 13:10

arich

Really getting into it

Location: Seaofstars
Registered: August 2003
Messages: 563

Living! ;-D

People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm

Re: HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58836 is a reply to message #58835]

Thu, 24 September 2009 14:05

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800

Living is good! Actually you are a great example of someone who is not just living, but coping with huge adversity too.

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58848 is a reply to message #58836]

Fri, 25 September 2009 01:52

ray2x

Really getting into it

Location: USA
Registered: April 2009
Messages: 430

Educating. So many disabled students are abused. I want to give them some knowledge of STDs and AIDS. And knowing about abuse.

Raymundo

Re: HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58851 is a reply to message #58848]

Fri, 25 September 2009 07:50

timmy

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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800

I like that a lot. You may find http://iomfats.org/resources/health/sti/ of some use

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

Re: HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58854 is a reply to message #58836]

Fri, 25 September 2009 13:19

arich

Really getting into it

Location: Seaofstars
Registered: August 2003
Messages: 563

Actually Timmy I haven’t seen it as adversity for a long time, it is no more than an addendum to life’s many.

Though I do find the meds a bit of a pain, they are a tether I do not desire! As the old saying goes you never miss what you have until it’s taken from you.

People will tell you where they've gone
They'll tell you where to go
But till you get there yourself you never really know
Where some have found their paradise
Other's just come to harm

Re: HIV Vaccine gives hope for the future [message #58856 is a reply to message #58854]

Fri, 25 September 2009 16:40

timmy

Has no life at all

Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
Messages: 13800

I understand. I was thinking, really, of the ridiculously large shock I had when I discovered I had acquired type 2 diabetes. That simple and treatable ailment took me three months to come to terms with. So I can imagine, yet not imagine, the shock of a diagnosis that one is HIV+, and the hard work it has been to move from "adversity" to "undesired tether"

Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School

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