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Having read all comments, I can relate to all of you. Whats just as worse is getting public based health care, the Doc's and Assistants do not bother to see how long I have been pos.(20yrs.) yet still tell me what to do and not do with others, the tone of voice is disrespectful at best. Sad part they are foreigners being trained by us and they bring there moral, religious and arrogance to the room, I am so tired of being berated by the medical machine, sometimes it makes one think of suicide.
People need to take the time to get educated and stop being so ignorant to what's going on a person living with HIV IS THE SAME AS A PERSON LIVING WITH CANCER OR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE THE HAVE TO TAKE MEDICATION TO CONTROL WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THEM THE SAME WAY AN HIV person have to take medication it just so sad that HIV/AIDS have been around for so many years now and people still look at a person that is poz with their nose turned up not realizing that at any giving moment they to can become poz
and yes i feel slighted having maintained undetectable viral loads for 10 years
The percentages are even higher here for gay men with hiv+ men although that is probaly a survival emotional reaction that i understand and might obviously prevent infections assuming condoms are always used. hiv positives are necessarily separated from the gay male "community" because gay men from a survival point of must and do hate us
I am always surprised that pos.people don't band together to avoid isolation. But you can't even find them because nobody discloses. The ad of the above dating site is inundated with scammers and therefore yet more depressing.
It has been 25yrs since hiv/aids was discoverd,it is a dame shame that the (facts) are not advertised through mass-media to break this ignorence and fear that exist about hiv/aids.This would help those who are being treated and those who starting treatment.I have been hiv positive for 10yrs!
As a licensed psychotherapist and poz man myself, specializing in HIV mental health, these words can't be repeated enough -- that HIV is not just a medical disease; the people living with it need psychosocial support as well, via counseling, support groups, or online communities.
Frederick Wright
In the South it is still don't ask and don't tell, for in the early days it was so important to keep ones' mouth closed, due to many kinds of discrimination. The case managers and old school HIV community drills it in one head to keep it a secret. The sad part is the stima wan't go away until HIV poz folks find the courage to come out and build relationship with their community one at a time. Their are a lot of high profile folks too that live in fear to state they are HIV.
August 9, 2010 • Tampa