http://www.theroot.com/views/beginning-end-aids?page=0,1
(The Root) -- For two decades, the International AIDS Conference has played a vital role in assembling the global community to discuss new scientific advances and to mobilize action around fighting the devastating disease. Taking place in Washington, D.C., this week -- the first time in 22 years that the conference has been held in the United States -- the event also creates renewed urgency around the national epidemic.Despite the staggering 1.1 million people living with HIV in the U.S., Kevin Fenton, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, is optimistic that government and community-based partners are now on the right track to stem HIV's tide.
In an interview with The Root, Fenton discussed the importance of finally confronting the reality that "not everybody is equally affected by the epidemic," new research that underscores the major impact of basic public-awareness campaigns and why he believes that, after decades of merely stabilizing the number of new HIV infections, a new federal strategy and new medical breakthroughs will get the country much closer to an AIDS-free generation.
note the reference to gov't involvement, wonder how many on the right who may be infected, still want to oppose gov't, when you think about it the rich would not undertake the everyday goings on in the gov't if they did only 2% would be able to afford the services. those who could not where would they end up, a privatized ER? how much longer will you allow yourself to vote against yourself in favor of a hate that majority only has in name only, they don't really hate because they don't know what t is they are actually suppose to hate. Obama, he's trying to keep the things that are beneficial to you not the 2%, instead of thanking the Lord for someone who cares about you you want to demonize and dismiss in favor of tyrannical devoid of all help you do or will need, only trickle down is when you finally realize that you've been punked again and you pee your pants. recognize
All Americans need the basic tools about HIV to protect themselves. Everybody should know about HIV testing and how HIV is transmitted, and that is work we will always have to do. But you can target some messages to people who are HIV positive and people who are at high risk of acquiring HIV -- the fact that we have very good treatments which are now available, that people who are living with HIV should be on treatment, suppress their virus and practice safer sex to reduce onward transmissions. There's a balancing act. And that balance is the reality of HIV 30 years into the epidemic.
no rich guy or republican politician wants to even mention this epidemic for obvious reasons do mostly to their own misinformation about who's disease this is.
We know that those are gay and bisexual men of all races, African-American men and women, Hispanic and Latino men and women, injection-drug users and the transgender population.
note the "ALL RACES".
