Women: The New Face of AIDS By Dr. Laura Berman - Posted Wed, Nov 29, 2006, 9:03 am PST

1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Nov 29, 2006, 4:58 pm PST

Just because the percent of individuals with HIV who are women has gone up does not mean that the NUMBER of women with HIV has gone up. This could simply be a tilting of the ratio due to a lower number of men contracting HIV. If HIV began as a disease among homosexual men, then spread to heterosexual men and women, it is only natural that the percent of HIV victims who are women would increase as it balanced between genders. This would happen even if the total number of cases decreased (as it did). The low percent of those with HIV who were women back when the total number of HIV cases was high could mean an equal number of woman to now, when the total number is low, but percent that are women is high. So, to say that the number of women in the U.S. with HIV has increased just because the percentage has increased is quite misleading.

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 6:27 am PST

OMG, I had no idea!

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 1:05 pm PST

I heard that it was the drugs that they took for this disease that were killing them, and that this disease could actually be reversed eating a diet that was similar to an anticancer diet. But since that information never publicized,people don't attempt to even eat healthier when they get remotely ill. I think AIDS will remain a death sentence in spite of all the drugs that are marketed for it. Abstinence and condoms are only one part of the equation of trying to prevent it. Getting on an anticancer diet once you have the virus/disease is another part of the equation to try and reverse the situation.

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 9:04 pm PST

The idea that I would ever face HIV head on had never crossed my mind. Then a short time after I started a relationship with a really amazing women, we found out her x boyfriend tested possitive. So far everthing is negative, but it has changed my life forever. Next week I will run the Las Vegas Marrathon for the second time. If you think I am going to lye down and dye, you have another thing coming. I am going to live my life out loud. Get tested and be possitive you are negative. I am not going to stand on a soap box, I just am! We can hold our head up and fight this. Its the only way to over come. If this is the plate I am dealt with in life, then this desease is going to have to get used to seeing my face. I am ready to fight, I all ready started fighting and I am not going to stop. God Speed

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 10:00 pm PST

Most black women access free clinics which are required to report testing results. Most white women utilize private ones which do not report hiv/aids results. I've been a black women for 27 years and have lived amongst both whites, blacks and other groups. White women especially young girls are very sexually active and have high herpes numbers. How is it that the media is claiming black women are 20 times more likely to contract hiv? That's bull! I guess as long as black people are weak as a group it will be easy for the white media to spready these lies.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 10:34 pm PST

The fact that private clinics do not disclose HIV/AIDS statistics is untrue. All patients testing positive for HIV are required to be reported to the Department of Health.

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 10:35 pm PST

The fact that private clinics do not disclose HIV/AIDS statistics is untrue. All patients testing positive for HIV are required to be reported to the Department of Health.

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 11:00 pm PST

but it is not just using condoms to prevent this disease. some have contracted it through blood transfusions. some through drugs use. some even through a simple thing as an open wound from something as simple as a car wreck. but condoms do help. so does education. and so does getting regular checkups to check for stds and also for this virus. not one thing will prevent the spread of another by itself. it has to be a combination of many things to help combat something such as aids and hiv.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 11:02 pm PST

but it is not just using condoms to prevent this disease. some have contracted it through blood transfusions. some through drugs use. some even through a simple thing as an open wound from something as simple as a car wreck. but condoms do help. so does education. and so does getting regular checkups to check for stds and also for this virus. not one thing will prevent the spread of another by itself. it has to be a combination of many things to help combat something such as aids and hiv.

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 11:03 pm PST

but it is not just using condoms to prevent this disease. some have contracted it through blood transfusions. some through drugs use. some even through a simple thing as an open wound from something as simple as a car wreck. but condoms do help. so does education. and so does getting regular checkups to check for stds and also for this virus. not one thing will prevent the spread of another by itself. it has to be a combination of many things to help combat something such as aids and hiv.

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 11:32 pm PST

I especially enjoyed the contradiction in the article that states promiscuity does not cause HIV. The next point she then makes is that promiscuity causes infection by men bringing the disease home. Just what is her idea of promiscuity anyhow?

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Thu, Nov 30, 2006, 11:34 pm PST

except, you probably would not have had to face that moment if you were not sleeping with your girlfriend in the first place. Marriage, generally, provides more protection to the man and woman in terms of sexually transmitted disease. Keep up the good living but be more sensible about how you end up in these situations in the first place.

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Dec 01, 2006, 12:09 am PST

HIV/AIDS is a real diesease that is swallowing both whites and blacks it does not choose.we can prevent this by simply abstaining from sex.

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14. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Dec 01, 2006, 1:58 am PST

Abstinence / use of condom and faithfulness to ones partner if married, with go along way in limiting the spread of this killer disease

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15. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Fri, Dec 01, 2006, 2:07 am PST

Abstinence / use of condom and faithfulness to ones partner, if married will go a long way in limiting the spread of this killer disease

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