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I have ponder this add for weeks now and I am all for it. I too believe that this PAS could of help me at 25 years of age to think twice about protection and safe sex for here in the South their was no support or foward knowlege about HIV until Ryan White Monies came on board in the late 80s. One person stated that fear never helps, well, we teach children not to cross a road without looking both ways,in fear of them dieing. Healthie fear is good look at Drunk Driving campaign,scray
Fear was the reason why I did not get tested for 14 years, and as a result I ended up with many of the opportunistic infections that this ad informs. We all need this wake up call! I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through. I lost everything, however it's been 9 years and I am a success story. I survived. Many haven't. The sooner you know your status the better. GET TESTED, and go back and get the results.
The truth is HIV is a scary event in our lives today.And many myself included lived in denial about my health for to many years thus placing myself in greater risk for even more scary health events in my life I wish someone would have shared the scary truth of what "I" was putting myself into greater risk by placing myself in deeper denial about HIV...when I did become aware of the scary reality of HIV untreated I sought HELP...and got involved in helping others...Helena grateful for truth.
After living with HIV for 25years and working in the field for 15, it is more than HIV. If it wasn't, with effective medications out there, that would be the end of it....people can live their whole lives physically with HIV, but they will never be the same again emotionally...young people can't handle having acne, far from ready for an HIV status...it's not a scare tactic when it's the truth!
Is Larry Karmer sill mad as hell. I seen the add and it is no more scarier then Saw 2, if you believe all the cartoon effects, again like cervical cancer this anal cancer, old age and bone problems happen to HIV people. I was in England some years ago and they are a little lighter in cartoons on Public Televison PSA with lots of cartoon penis-s running around and condoms running after them. With a X on the penis shooting it's seman unprotected,and OK on the penis that the condom jumbs on.
I think this ad is great, until the very end when it promotes the use of condoms as entirely effective. I think that in order for the gay community to solve AIDS, we need to look inwards and change our day-to-day individual behaviors, practices, and beliefs. Read Gabriel Rotello's "Sexual Ecology." It is uncomfortable to think about AIDS as something that the gay community enabled the spread of, but unfortunately its the fact of the matter. No pills or condoms can change us, only we can.
Bravo to this ad. I am more than thrilled it has shaken up the "self appointment" politically correct AIDS leaders. AIDS leadership in 2011 simply does not exist. This ad is real and so is it message.
Jason Farrell
The concept is understandable. However let us not forget it is not just the likely to happen conditions indicated in the campaign. Similiar to cigarette package warnings. The fact of the matter is depression, medication side effects, treatment resistant HIV and growing old with HIV that tend to be more of a daily concern. Especially when many who needed to adjust to a short life now need to mentally and financially prepare for living.
February 8, 2011