Thanks, but, like I said, I'm doing pretty good. I just wish I could could get off the damn steroids, these things are porkin me out.

Which has been curable for quite awhile now. Bob Dole isn't understanding how this is groundbreaking.

I have had a family member die from AIDS caused by being a heroin junkie.

I had (and have) very little sympathy for him. HIV isn't exactly a highly contagious virus. You have to seek it out through stupid and risky behavior, barring transfusions and the like.

Don't you think you should change the title of this thread dude, you know, to keep your credibility? shakes head...

same here and I tend to post like that too.
wasn't trying to come down on you specifically. like u, just posted it after i read it. :hmmm:

Curable, or avoidable? I ask because I'm clueless, can they stop it once you have it or just keep it at bay?

Good news. Glad to hear progress is being made. Shame it's too late for my friend.

:rolleyes:

Perhaps you noticed we didn't stop research on any of those while researching AIDS?

You've made it clear you don't give a rip about people dying from AIDS/HIV. Or at least that you don't think it's worth investing our medical research in seeking a cure. I have my suspicions why, but I'll leave that alone.

Perhaps an innocent child who received a bad blood transfusion will have a shot at a full life because of this.

A girl that I dated from high school through sophomore year in college got it for trying it the first time. About a year later when she had meet someone else, POS didn't give her a clean needle.

My brother died of AIDS 20 years ago after getting a blood transfusion. He needed one when his GF at the time stabbed him 38 times in his sleep. Well... I am sure only the first few were in his sleep but that is beside the point.

They did not test the blood back then as well as now and he got AIDS.

He was 6'1 and ripped beyond belief. He weighed 210 and was solid muscle.... when he died he weighed less than 90.

Never stuck needles in his arm... or anywhere else for that matter. People that do get little to no sympathy from me though.

Sorry, no sympathy from me.

They really didn't test the blood before? How old was he when he died?
that's very, very sad.

That's horrible. I'm sorry that you lost your brother.

I wasn't crying for it.

I don't remember exactly.... he was in his early 20's. 24 I think.

20 years ago they did not check for HIV / AIDS. And if they did, it surely was not as accurate as it is now.

They've had combination drug treatments that render the HIV viral load undetectable for years. Which in turn allows the immune system to "recover" to normal levels, thus "curing" AIDS.