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Ian W

I read most of the article and many of the not so obvious questions are answered. I say not so obvious because as a HIV negative individual, I have done little research on the subject. I have no understanding of say.. CD4 levels and such. I will therefore comment on other aspects of the idea of forced HIV testing. As with any forced health test such as this, people will feel as if their rights are being violated. I often, as a single man, thought about just how great it would be if people were forced to be tested and when found positive, were given a tattoo in an "inconspicuous area" so that they could not knowingly spread the disease without their partner's knowledge. There are a few problems with this. One would be the inevitable sense of security that would wash over much of the sexually active population. People would feel very comfortable trusting a virtual stranger's assertion that they were negative if the person had been tested a few weeks before. But, what if the virus had still been undetectable at that point? Then you have a supposedly negative person spreading the disease unbeknown to them. Sometimes the fact that someone cannot produce paperwork showing their negative status could be a good thing. I know that I, at a certain point, would have been very comfortable having unprotected sex with someone that showed me a negative test. I also know that at certain times, people will do it regardless, basically crossing their fingers. I remember my first, and only HIV test. I was 18 years old and hanging every day at a girl's house in West Hollywood. Ohh how funny I must have seemed to the guy who administered the test when I told him I had been with two people. He was probably used to answers more like fifty and two hundred, and I've lost count. In the later years I relied upon my girlfriends getting tested, and of course used protection in "risky" situations. I always had a tremendous fear of std's, and yet was lucky enough to never catch one. I remember going to the free clinic to have a couple bumps on my junk checked. I was sure I had warts. The woman told that I probably did, but that she couldn't tell for sure. I then was told be a girl at work that if I held vinegar on it for an hour, and it turned white, that I had warts. I proceded to put a vinegar filled condom over my penis for one hour. I was horrified when I removed it. There were white bumps everywhere. I immediately got help from an actual urologist. It was then that I discovered that vinegar turns everything, including hair follicles white, after a period of an hour. He informed me that the bumps were merely irritated hair folicles and that the free clinic, who was used to giving pap smeers, was misinformed. The day I had gone there, their male urologist was out, and an OBGYN subbed for him. But now I am merely rambling. Another potential problem is the third world. We cannot even implement a single test for more than a fraction of the population of Africa... how are we going to make the third world get tested? And who will pay for it? Many such tests would be useful. I, as an American, feel strongly that a sound bill of health ought to be required before one can become a US citizen, but somehow we allow people with any form of communicable illness into our country. Many once dormant diseases are once again rearing their heads in the civilized world due to the influx of people living in the undeveloped world. And yet the immigrant's rights are protected over the rights of the indigenous people? Surely things are not so backwards in the rest of the world? But here is the bottom line; for the most part, HIV is preventable. Apart from a small fraction of the cases where infected blood is given in a transfusion, or a condom rips, it is preventable. There is no need to make testing mandatory because if you want to protect yourself, don't share needles, don't have unprotected sex, and make sure the person you are spending your life with is honest. Honestly, that is the scariest thing to me. That many men I know frequently cheat on their wives with many different women. I once knew a guy who had been with over two hundred women, and told me he never used protection. He said if he was going to die, "at least it would be doing something I love". I remember watching this guy go have sex with a bartender during his lunch break, come back to work, leave and go have sex with his girlfriend without even washing up. I know because I was hanging with his roomate at the time. Ewww Like I said before though.... preventable. You can protect yourself from it, and it therefore doesn't matter what stupid things other people do around you. Make sure when you are in a relationship that your partner does not cheat. And if you suspect them of cheating, start using protection, or break up with them. I was lucky enough never to catch anything. My daughter being born finally brough meaning to an act that once seemed so much for pleasure, and nothing else. I feel deeply sorry for anyone unfortunate enough to contract this illness, thank God that I was never so unlucky, and Pray that one day we will find a cure for this and every other disease on the planet. As a final thought- not to sound callous, but does anyone really believe the people in power really want to cure disease? If there was no cancer, no AIDS, no heart disease, and no deadly disease, what would our population do? I honestly believe that until we figure out an ethical way to control population (not war or famine) that disease will always be used by those in power to control the population~

February 15, 2010

Kerry

Here is some food for thought, story of inspiration or whatever you want to call it, know that it is the truth. Please read Simon's story. My name is Simon and I am a 29 year old male. I first discovered that I was HIV Positive in June of 2009. Three weeks earlier I had gone to a local health center for testing and I was negative. The following week I applied for life insurance and was denied because my test results came back positive. When I received my results, for some reason I was calm. Instead of searching for treatments, I immediately went online to search for the cure – that’s when I ran across the youtube.com presentation of Apostle Shada Mishe. I immediately e-mailed him and he asked me some very basic information: my name, viral load, and age. When I e-mailed him this information, he invited me to come to his home in Toronto to get some Ambush. Ambush was the cure that the Apostle was presenting on youtube.com. The Apostle said that Ambush kills HIV/AIDS completely in 21 days. I didn’t have a passport at the time, and I live in the U.S., so the Apostle gave me an open invitation and told me to contact him when I was ready to come. I traveled to see the Apostle on the 4th of July. Before I left, I sent him a final e-mail asking him if I needed to bring anything and he replied, “just you.” I arrived at the Apostle’s home very early in the morning, in fact, he was still asleep. Nevertheless, when he answered the door, he greeted me with a big hug and said, “hello my son.” He explained to me that he needed a little more time to finish making the Ambush, so I sat. He then bought in a pan of water and a towel and asked me to take off my socks, and then he washed my feet. He then anointed me from head to feet in oil, as he prayed with me. We sat for hours and talked about almost everything: the state of the world, religion, sex, family, goals, etc. He informed me that from that point on he was my father and there was nothing that I should feel I couldn’t tell him. Once the Ambush was ready, the Apostle bought some to me in a small glass. He took a sip first then told me to drink it. Surprisingly, it had a pleasant taste – like tea with ginger. He told me to drink it three times daily for the next three weeks. He packaged it in a bottle and gave it to me. Before I left his home, he told me to put my hands on this huge slab of marble. He put his hands on it too and then he prayed for me. I immediately felt a spirit of peace. For the next three weeks I took the recommended dosage of Ambush. The Apostle also told me to take a daily vitamin supplement with it. In the first week I felt no change. In the second week I felt very sluggish, nauseated and I noticed that my hair was thinning rapidly. I felt like I was going through chemotherapy. This was a direct contrast to how the Apostle told me I would feel. He said that I would have more energy, my skin would look better and I would feel healthier than I had in a long time. I never stopped taking the Ambush, but I communicated my concerns to the Apostle through e-mail. Each time I e-mailed him, he immediately responded, answering all of my questions and coddling my fears. I went and got blood work after I completed taking the Ambush. It took a few months for me to go back because I was scared. I knew what I had prayed for and what the Apostle had told me, but if this didn’t work, I would have to face the fact that I would die from AIDS. In early October, I got my test results back. My doctor informed me that he was expecting my viral load to be in the double digit thousands because I had recently contracted the disease, but it came back at 69! This was outstanding. I called the Apostle and we talked over the phone and rejoiced. He told me to come back to see him before I got tested again. I did. He gave me another three week supply of Ambush. On December 21, 2009 I was diagnosed as undetectable. That was the best Christmas present that I could have received. I am telling my story because there are millions of people infected with HIV/ AIDS. There is a cure! I paid nothing for Ambush and no one has paid me to write this story. This information is pure fact. My hope is that someone with the power to manufacture this cure will read this story, so that thousands of people will stop suffering and dying needlessly of this disease each year. There is hope and I have found it in Ambush and Apostle Shada Mishe. Article Submitted on January 1, 2010 by Simon T.

January 6, 2010

rose

I'm rose,i came accross your profile while searching on this site, and saw you so handsome and decided to im you. You are so handsome that i believe God spent extra time creating you and if i were to present your picture in heaven, all the angels would hide their faces in shame I'm a gentle hearted woman, i like making friends because friends are the best. Love is not about body stature, but its all about what is in the heart. what i care about is u are handsome and i wish to be the woman you've always wanted and i'm sure you and i would work things nicely beaing together. I like holding hands walking together side by side and sharing love vows and i see you as a man i would love to do that with and cuddle with.u can chat with me at my yahoo id rose.b1981@yahoo.ca

December 3, 2009

Juan Carlos

Wow!!!! Dr nice to meet you. I am latin, i have to bee sincere in telling i have never heard about you nor your work... but then you know in Latin America we are completely lost about story and the development of the beginning of the epidemy. We heard sometime long time ago there was an unknown virus somewhere in the states.... couple of years leater i heard it had some new virus in my country... and perhaps 20 years afterwards... i found myself infected with that unknown virus i knew so few. I am deeply interested in hearing your stories about the beginning of all of it, i guess i want to know where it all started and i know there are many inspirational stories about how people moved things to be where we are right now. I also hope we can develop a sort of virtual friendship. Welcome to poz blogs :) i am really excited of reading more of yours posts. Juan

August 23, 2009

edfu

Beginning a blog with POZ is very exciting news, Doctor. Your knowledge, wisdom, and compassion are greatly appreciated. You have long been one of my personal medical heroes in the history of the epidemic. I, too, was in NYC in the early 1980s when the epidemic began and was active in the fight against this virus. Your memories of that time will be invaluable. I lost over 100 best friends, friends, and acquaintances, some of whom were your patients. I remember well the major role you played then in formulating the concept and paradigms of the safer-sex movement; this was at a time when the leaders of the gay community--even those at Gay Men's Health Crisis--did not believe that there had been a major change in sexual liberation dictated by a vicious virus. I was personally told by GMHC's leaders--except for Larry Kramer--that "we can't tell people how to have sex." And then there was all the good work you did with Community Research Initiative. So thank you so much, and welcome.

August 21, 2009

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