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To The Negative opions
At Least Iam willing and hoping that they did find a cure and I don't give a **** if I got to stick a needle in my eye or take 50 pills a day.IAM Being postive about this and I GOT NOTHING MORE TO LOSE OTHER THEN TO GAIN
I just looked at that article, farout, thats pretty bad, and yeah, its in 1999, they wouldnt want to put a picture like that in the paper these days, id certainly have something to say about it. That picture has probably damaged us heppers more than anything.
You are right sfbaygirl, the stigma is real bad, it isnt just drug users that get this disease and the public needs to know that, we need to do something like they are doing with AIDS, get more public awareness about it.
Im sick and tired of us having to wait for Celebrities to get something done, but unfortunately that seems to be the way of it all, it hits their doorstep and they become involved.
What we need is some Government people to come directly involved with hep c, then we would see something happening.
You are right sfbaygirl, the stigma is real bad, it isnt just drug users that get this disease and the public needs to know that, we need to do something like they are doing with AIDS, get more public awareness about it.
Im sick and tired of us having to wait for Celebrities to get something done, but unfortunately that seems to be the way of it all, it hits their doorstep and they become involved.
What we need is some Government people to come directly involved with hep c, then we would see something happening.
Sorry i double posted the same thing.
Yeah i agree we need someone powerful, but until someone actually has the guts that is powerful and admits they have hep c nothing will get done. I suppose if hep c came along before AIDS so to speak and we got in there first, we may have got somewhere, but AIDS seems to overtake hep c and seems to be more important.
Wait till it more and more people are being infected with hep c, and it becomes an epidemic bigger than they all thought, which it will.
Statistics are now showing that more young girls between ages of 15 and 19 are becoming infected with hep c because they are going out with older men who are injecting them after they inject themselves, and the girls dont know any better, which is where education in the schools needs to be put in place.
I keep repeating myself, but i will say it again, that if someone has a fight with an infected person then that person also becomes infected if there is blood spilt. How many people get in fights, especially young men that are showing off their strength and how good they are with their fists, u know, growing up stuff which most men do.
This disease will spread if the public isnt made aware of all the ways it can be contracted and not just through injecting.
Yeah i agree we need someone powerful, but until someone actually has the guts that is powerful and admits they have hep c nothing will get done. I suppose if hep c came along before AIDS so to speak and we got in there first, we may have got somewhere, but AIDS seems to overtake hep c and seems to be more important.
Wait till it more and more people are being infected with hep c, and it becomes an epidemic bigger than they all thought, which it will.
Statistics are now showing that more young girls between ages of 15 and 19 are becoming infected with hep c because they are going out with older men who are injecting them after they inject themselves, and the girls dont know any better, which is where education in the schools needs to be put in place.
I keep repeating myself, but i will say it again, that if someone has a fight with an infected person then that person also becomes infected if there is blood spilt. How many people get in fights, especially young men that are showing off their strength and how good they are with their fists, u know, growing up stuff which most men do.
This disease will spread if the public isnt made aware of all the ways it can be contracted and not just through injecting.
I totally agree. Although we are preaching to the choir on the forum.
Not many people realize you can catch hep c from fights or abuse.
Not many people realize you can catch hep c from fights or abuse.
Or that 50% of the deaths attributed to HIV/AIDS are also people who are co-infected with HCV. Which begs the question as to the cause of death: Was it because of HIV/AIDS or because HIV/AIDS allowed HCV to destroy the liver?
sfbaygirl: Not many people realize you can catch hep c from fights or abuse.
Perhaps that's why most studies reporting on what percentage of the population is infected always exclude those in prisons, where surprisingly the ratio of infected to non-infect inmates is much higher than the 2-3% which the CDC claims is ratio in the USA.
Our own local support group has also done testing at many gay pride events and found that the results indicate at least a 4% infection rate amoung professed homosexuals.
As far as I know, no one has tried sampling the homeless, which like the incarcerated is another group excluded from all studies I've seen, to see that the ratio is there.
Yet despite all the large untested segment of the population, coupled with the infected portion which will not acknowledge their infection for various reasons (which seems to be mostly due to the fear of being judge based upon the IVDU stigma), the studies by the CDC and others still claim that the infection rate is on the decline and will eventually become a non-factor as those from the Make Love Not War hippy era die off.
Perhaps that's why most studies reporting on what percentage of the population is infected always exclude those in prisons, where surprisingly the ratio of infected to non-infect inmates is much higher than the 2-3% which the CDC claims is ratio in the USA.
Our own local support group has also done testing at many gay pride events and found that the results indicate at least a 4% infection rate amoung professed homosexuals.
As far as I know, no one has tried sampling the homeless, which like the incarcerated is another group excluded from all studies I've seen, to see that the ratio is there.
Yet despite all the large untested segment of the population, coupled with the infected portion which will not acknowledge their infection for various reasons (which seems to be mostly due to the fear of being judge based upon the IVDU stigma), the studies by the CDC and others still claim that the infection rate is on the decline and will eventually become a non-factor as those from the Make Love Not War hippy era die off.
I didn't know the CDC was saying that. That is ridiculous! Without the testing of young people, how do they know this? As we know it takes some 30+ asymtomatic years before they discover they have it. With the CDC saying this, it seems like we don't stand a chance of anyone taking this virus seriously.
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