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Do you know anyone with HIV/Aids

  • 08-12-2014 5:58pm
    #1
    Winty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭


    Hello

    Watched Dallas Buyers Club last night and realised that I (to the best of my knowledge) dont know anyone with HIV/AIDS, do you?


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  • #2
    FullblownRose
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    Yes, one that I know of anyway. It's quite sad, he had a serious drug addiction years ago.


  • #3
    ElleEm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,981 ✭✭✭ElleEm


    Unfortunatly due to the stigma, I would say we could all know someone with HIV/ AIDS but they haven't been able to disclose it.

    I knew someone through work with HIV years ago. She had just been diagnosed and was not an IV drug user so most likely caught it through sex.


  • #4
    Iranoutofideas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,083 ✭✭✭Iranoutofideas


    No. Though I did have an extremely ugly maths teacher at school whose nickname was Aids.


  • #5
    Saralee4
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    Aids is a relatively manageable disease these days. You can live a normal life with HI V.

    No one that I know of has it but there is still a stigma attached.

    anyone know what the statistics in Ireland actually are?


  • #6
    mosstin
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    Saralee4 wrote: »
    Aids is a relatively manageable disease these days. You can live a normal life with HI V.

    No one that I know of has it but there is still a stigma attached.

    anyone know what the statistics in Ireland actually are?

    I don't have them to hand, sorry, but I know someone who can help you live with your RSI.


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  • #7
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    In the US and UK there have been quite a few prominent people who disclosed they have HIV, but apart from the VJ Vincent Hanley many years ago, none famous I can recall in Ireland. I think there does seem to be a stigma still in Ireland.


  • #8
    dodderangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,204 ✭✭✭dodderangler


    My mates uncle was serious drug user and stil is .
    He's had aids fr years now. He actually looks like a extra from walking dead. Sad because he was a real nice bloke till the drugs


  • #9
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    porsche959 wrote: »
    In the US and UK there have been quite a few prominent people who disclosed they have HIV, but apart from the VJ Vincent Hanley many years ago, none famous I can recall in Ireland. I think there does seem to be a stigma still in Ireland.
    Panti would be reasonably famous.


  • #10
    porsche959
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,499 ✭✭✭porsche959


    padd b1975 wrote: »
    Panti would be reasonably famous.

    Actually, you're right, that only just occured to me. But the fact that he has HIV is not prominent in the media publicity about him (not that there's anything wrong with that).


  • #11
    Banjo String
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    My two next door neighbours have aids.


    One is for hearing, his wife's is for walking.


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  • #12
    Hande hoche!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,903 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    Yeah, a friend's boyfriend is H.I.V. positive.


  • #13
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Yes. One of my ex's exboyfriend had it, died last year


  • #14
    biko
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    I don't think so but I once saw a film about a guy that had it, in Philadelphia.


  • #15
    padd b1975
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,839 ✭✭✭✭padd b1975


    porsche959 wrote: »
    Actually, you're right, that only just occured to me. But the fact that he has HIV is not prominent in the media publicity about him (not that there's anything wrong with that).

    I think I read somewhere he was diagnosed around 1995, so 20 years later and still seems in good health shows it's not the death sentence it once was.


  • #16
    LenaClaire
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    A friend of the family had it in the 80's. He committed suicide when he started to get very ill.


  • #17
    Banjo String
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    Am I right in saying that aids isn't the death sentence it once was?

    Did I read somewhere that it is now an illness that can be lived with in a relatively normal life?


  • #18
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Am I right in saying that aids isn't the death sentence it once was?

    Did I read somewhere that it is now an illness that can be lived with in a relatively normal life?

    Treatment options are much better, if you can afford them you can live a relatively normal life.


  • #19
    Mr_Red
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭Mr_Red


    Saralee4 wrote: »
    Aids is a relatively manageable disease these days. You can live a normal life with HI V.

    No one that I know of has it but there is still a stigma attached.

    anyone know what the statistics in Ireland actually are?

    Since the 80s there has been 7000 people diagnosed with hiv

    but they suspect that up to 25% more people have it without knowing it

    in the UK and Ireland there are over 100,000 people diagnosed with hiv


  • #20
    [Deleted User]
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    ElleEm wrote: »
    Unfortunatly due to the stigma, I would say we could all know someone with HIV/ AIDS but they haven't been able to disclose it. .

    Not necessarily. The rate of HIV in Ireland is less than 0.3% of the population and heavily concentrated in certain groups of people.


  • #21
    Banjo String
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,380 ✭✭✭✭Banjo String


    LenaClaire wrote: »
    Treatment options are much better, if you can afford them you can live a relatively normal life.

    Maybe it was a documentary actually, it had something along the line of the carrier of the virus taking a cocktail of drugs for the rest of their lives, but i do recall the person having a normal job, social life, and an active sex life also (i think it was a female)


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  • #22
    Sheep Lover
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,730 ✭✭✭Sheep Lover


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Not necessarily. The rate of HIV in Ireland is less than 0.3% of the population and heavily concentrated in certain groups of people.

    Homosexuals or drug users is it?


  • #23
    anncoates
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    My uncle died from it.


  • #24
    [Deleted User]
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    Sheep Lover wrote: »
    Homosexuals or drug users is it?

    And rather than or.


  • #25
    LenaClaire
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭LenaClaire


    Banjo String wrote: »
    Maybe it was a documentary actually, it had something along the line of the carrier of the virus taking a cocktail of drugs for the rest of their lives, but i do recall the person having a normal job, social life, and an active sex life also (i think it was a female)

    Yeah. It is pretty manageable now if you can get the correct medication. There was also an article recently on how the virus is evolving to be weaker (less deadly = more ability to propagate).


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