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Heres the thing about this article that is infuriating. Of course the number of AIDS deaths are declining. Improved medication means that HIV+ persons do not progress to full blown AIDS, which 30 years ago was a death sentence. But this does not mean that we are achieving success in ending the pandemic! Its a feel-good smokescreen that the media and health departments use to pretend that the AIDS pandemic no longer exists, as in, Look what a good job weve done! Until we are able to stop the spread of HIV, which remains steady at 50,000 new cases of HIV each year in the US... until stigma and discrimination for HIV+ people ends... until access to medication is a given for everyone who needs it... until rapid HIV testing becomes the norm... it is way too soon to declare victory.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:13:02 +0000

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