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World AIDS Day 2014

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  • #2
    Dan Chipowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭Dan Chipowski


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_sR09ZMSYg


  • #3
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Its crazy to look at this map and see the numbers of people effected in Africa
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Africa

    Imagine living in a country where 20%+ people HIV positive its just incredibly depressing that in the 21st century that we can have entire regions decimated like this.


  • #4
    Bipolar Joe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,443 ✭✭✭Bipolar Joe


    Happy world AIDS day! What are you guys doing for it? I'm gonna not get AIDS, hopefully, because i got it last year.


  • #5
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFs0o6pCxc


  • #6
    ROAAAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭ROAAAR


    I never knew Panti had Aids. That must have been so scary to find out back then. She's a pretty amazing woman in fairness.


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  • #7
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    ROAAAR wrote: »
    I never knew Panti had Aids. That must have been so scary to find out back then. She's a pretty amazing woman in fairness.

    I didn't either til last year.


  • #8
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    There is some incredible break throughs in HIV medicines. You can control the viral load enough, not to pass it onto a HIV- partner. Also in the US, there is a fairly new drug called Truvada which they believe can prevent the risk of getting HIV by 99%.

    HIV is no longer a death sentence. HIV+ people can live near normal lives with all the new medications. The key is to get tested regularly, because if you dont know you have the virus. Its far harder to control and you risk spreading it to others.


  • #9
    ROAAAR
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 316 ✭✭ROAAAR


    These drugs only came out in the 90s remember as experimental drugs. Who knows what effects they might have down the line.

    I've met guys on grindr at times a little drunk and stupidly not been safe. I should really get myself checked out I'm thinking reading this thread.


  • #10
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    No reason to be checked lately my libido is fcuked


  • #11
    philstar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,986 ✭✭✭philstar


    not as popular as christmas day is it??

    (ricky gervais joke)


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  • #12
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    ROAAAR wrote: »

    I've met guys on grindr at times a little drunk and stupidly not been safe. I should really get myself checked out I'm thinking reading this thread.

    You definitely should get tested. See here where to doso.

    http://www.man2man.ie/free-testing-map.html

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #13
    suicide_circus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Dallas Buyers Club left me a little shell shocked for a couple of days.


  • #14
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    Are you having a One night stand?


    Then Condoms.

    Always.


  • #15
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    Not real sex if it is with a condom on.


  • #16
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    catallus wrote: »
    Not real sex if it is with a condom on.

    Why not?


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ROAAAR wrote: »
    I never knew Panti had Aids. That must have been so scary to find out back then. She's a pretty amazing woman in fairness.

    She doesn't. She has HIV.

    Very few people with HIV develop AIDS in the West, if they are on treatment. Treatment is very effective at suppressing the virus now.


  • #18
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    eviltwin wrote: »
    Why not?

    I'm glad you asked.

    You see, it has to be skin-on-skin if it is to be real.


  • #19
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    catallus wrote: »
    I'm glad you asked.

    You see, it has to be skin-on-skin if it is to be real.

    In your opinion

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #20
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    catallus wrote: »
    Not real sex if it is with a condom on.

    You, sir, need a good spanking.


  • #21
    dquinnan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭dquinnan


    Going for a test tomorrow, protection broke a few weeks ago with a random lady I met when I was in Manchester and I've been worrying myself silly ever since, googling symptoms and stuff like that. Dreading it, but will be glad to get it done.


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  • #22
    Buona Fortuna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,507 ✭✭✭Buona Fortuna


    Candie wrote: »
    You, sir, need a good spanking.

    Wear gloves :D


  • #23
    hfallada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,180 ✭✭✭hfallada


    dquinnan wrote: »
    Going for a test tomorrow, protection broke a few weeks ago with a random lady I met when I was in Manchester and I've been worrying myself silly ever since, googling symptoms and stuff like that. Dreading it, but will be glad to get it done.

    HIV wont show in the body for up to 3 months. But often can show up within a month. But its good that you use protection.


  • #24
    dquinnan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭dquinnan


    Went to the walk in clinic in James the Monday after it happened (happened on a Wednesday night) and they gave me an appointment to come back in 3 weeks because nurse said it was too soon to test then. I'm just assuming something is wrong until I find out otherwise, so no physical contact etc with anyone.


  • #25
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    dquinnan wrote: »
    Going for a test tomorrow, protection broke a few weeks ago with a random lady I met when I was in Manchester and I've been worrying myself silly ever since, googling symptoms and stuff like that. Dreading it, but will be glad to get it done.

    Its obviously better to be safe and to get tested (particularly cos of all the other diseases)but google female to male transmission rates for "normal"vaginal sex, its probably vastly lower than you are expecting.
    There's a reason other STD's are vastly more common in the straight community.


  • #26
    dquinnan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 67 ✭✭dquinnan


    I know the rates are low, but I'm a very unlucky person and I won't be able to relax until I know either way!

    So annoyed for getting myself into this situation in the first place.


  • #27
    BBJBIG
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 277 ✭✭BBJBIG


    Honestly, these days you need to boil people before you have sex with them


  • #28
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    dquinnan wrote: »
    I know the rates are low, but I'm a very unlucky person and I won't be able to relax until I know either way!

    So annoyed for getting myself into this situation in the first place.

    Yeah its a stupid thing to do but the rate of transmission is between 0.03%-0.09% for your case, the UK rate is of prevelance of HIV/AIDS is 0.3% and that will be skewed by high risk groups such as MSM and intravenous drug users. So go get tested but the risk you have caught it is amazingly low the risk you have caught something else will be much higher.


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