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i wanna clarify there is no difference between hiv or aids. saying hiv positive is just sugar coating for the word Aids I have hiv see it sounds better. Aids does have a stigma to it. i dont beleive in that if your cd4 goes below 200 you have aids. so what happens to your criteria nce they rise up above 200 you go back to being hiv positive. I beleive that if you feel comfortable saying that you are hiv but dont have aids well that more power too you
i was told i had "full blown AIDs" in 1996-over the phone by a doctor working for an HMO while i was sitting in my office at work-later-after combo therapy-when my t-cells went backover 200 I asked my infectious disease doc if i had hiv or AIDs--he said he would get back to me on that one-- he later explained that i would always be classified as having AIDS since my counts were below the 200 threshhold at one time---that was in like 1998---it seems to me that anyone with the virus hiv poz or AIDs is going to be subjected to prejudice and often times over the top reactions--since i do not "look" like i have 'full blown AIDS' as i recently had a licensed nurse say to me---having an education does not mean a person is enlightened--so for anyone to think that a numbskull attorney would have any compassion or sensitivity just because they have been to college is silly--society as a whole looks at anyone with the virus as a 21st century leper--so please be real--as far as some woman feeling like she is owed 15 million for NOT protecting HERSELF --please!!! wake up --the virus has been around for how many years now?
I completely disagree that "AIDS" is a less culturally and medically loaded term than "HIV," "hiv," "Positive" or even "Poz." Even keeping the acronym in lower-case- "aids"- does something to mitigate the fear-factor impact the term acquired from the beginning. Why not simply refer to advanced cases as hiv, rather than lump everyone together under a moniker that has caused so much more pain, fear and discrimination for so long? As for this woman's allegations, I hope she has (or doesn't have) a good lawyer.
Well said, Oriol. -- A fellow journalist
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I read the story & legal suit on TheSmokingGun.com site and cringed at the phrase used numerous times. HIV virus, full-blown AIDS... geez, you'd think a lawyer writing up the suit against Alomar might be more careful. As for Alomar, he'll get his in the end. I'm glad his former girlfriend has tested negative multiple times, but remember: it takes two to practice safe(r)sex.
The phrase doesn't bother me much. It is a bit sensationalist. But I do find it odd that her lawyer used it in a legal document.
i will be following the roberto alomar case like a hawk
CousinStrawberry
The phrase "full-blown AIDS" will always be funny to me.
December 25, 2019