With the release of new statistics by the CDC revealing that the HIV epidemic in this country is worse than we thought, it seems like a good time to take a look at where are. The mood at the International HIV/AIDS conference was "much more sober compared with previous meetings. There were no "major breakthroughs" announced, and "cutting-edge research findings were rare."
Therefore, it doesn't seem as if the calvary is coming. We have to continue to fight HIV/AIDS the old fashioned way: Prevention. There is an old saying: everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die to get there. Everyone wants HIV/AIDS to just go away, but are we willing to change our behavior?
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I agree that eliminating HIV/AIDS has to be done the old fashioned way, but the other issue is plain old fashioned dollars and cents. If we look at this epidemic, we have not seen an increase in dollars on the national level. The reality is dollars are being cut which I feel is another correlation on the rising HIV incidence rates especially amongst African Americans.
I dont think that some people want to change their behavior. There are a lot of people that put themselves into that predicament to fit on or they just dont have enough knowledge of it.
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