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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
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 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.
What we need is a close community (like gays) and leader as powerful as the one that lead the fight against AIDS. It would be sure help. Gays really did an amazing job of raising awareness during that time it was killing so many.
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.
I wasn't trying to be negitve at all with my comment to you. I may be feel very negitive about the news article that chose to place that photo, caption and not mention any other means of HVC transmission in the article. This is the kind of thing that makes it hard for us to get support and money for the cure of HVC. The stigma of it being ONLY IV drug users that get it. Sure there are lots of people that get it that way. Remember when HIV was considered the GAY disease? The stigma was unbelievable! No one wanted to help. They raised awareness themselves and put a better face on HIV than was more positive. It helped them get celebrities, money, fund raisers etc. The amounts they get comparitively is amazing.
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