Is that Good Aids or Bad Aids?

AIDS, or HIV? (or “High five” as I once heard a junior doctor say – think about it…)

DrP

It makes all the difference, as long as they’re all Good Aids victims we’re OK, otherwise we’re descending into Hell 😉

You can get Aids from touching other people’s bottoms? My god, it will be spreading via toilet seats next….

‘So why are you here’?

Nowadays its strains of Gonorrhea and mixed-casual sex that are spreading.

100,000 is a bloody lot. Probably not much as a percentage but ****

Was that your reply to the doc?

No it’s bird flu now or was might be swine flu, we’ve also had ebola.

DrP points out rather briefly though that AIDS is not what a lot of people think of when they here the word.

maybe we should get the forum tested?

Not a very interesting stat in isolation. Better to look at trends and whether the number is on the increase? There’s also a certain amount of estimation that goes on for the undiagnosed figures. Also people with HIV are living longer and mortality rates are apparently comparable with the general population.

Edit: oh and as DrP suggests, the figure is of people living with HIV and not AIDS.

Now if you’d said 100,000 are dying from AIDS

But they’re living, God has chosen not to take them
Actually, I think he’s waiting for the result of a vote on gay Bishops before deciding what to do with them.

Not too late to make up for lost time. Start off with Vim then work up to Cillit Bang…

a friends wife is hiv positive (cheating ex husband!)

doesnt affect them much,they did try ivf but ended up adopting- as long as she keeps on the meds life expectancy is about the same,

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/164373/they-found-a-cure-for-aids

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I gather he, and his doubtless numerous offspring will soon be adding to the figure then? EEK!

Additionally, from a medical statistic point of view, you need to be aware of the difference between prevalence and incidence when stating figures like these (I say ‘you’ – I mean the press etc)

DrP

Never wear another man/woman’s Lycra pants or double dip the old chammy cream is sound advice.

And sadly, their children.
And due to the prevalence of prejudice against them, it’s usually necessary to keep the facts of any infection secret from the school they attend.
Now there’s a daily mail headline.

Then….

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Is that all 😯

Asthma Key facts

5.4 million people in the UK are currently receiving treatment for asthma: 1.1 million children (1 in 11) and 4.3 million adults (1 in 12).

There were 1,131 deaths from asthma in the UK in 2009 (12 were children aged 14 years or under). That’s on average, 3 people per day or 1 person every 8 hours dies from asthma.

People who are inadvertently infected with AIDS/HIV is very sad but sometimes the press needs to keep things in perspective

We’re never going to fit that lot on the Isle of White!

Is that all

Asthma Key facts

5.4 million people in the UK are currently receiving treatment for asthma: 1.1 million children (1 in 11) and 4.3 million adults (1 in 12).

There were 1,131 deaths from asthma in the UK in 2009 (12 were children aged 14 years or under). That’s on average, 3 people per day or 1 person every 8 hours dies from asthma.

People who are inadvertently infected with AIDS/HIV is very sad but sometimes the press needs to keep things in perspective

You can’t catch asthma from african immigrants or gays, so it doesn’t really make a good tabloid headline.

Sadly very true in our media driven lives 🙁

Where is the Isle of White??

Do you mean the Isle of Wight?