Desicritics Comments on World AIDS Day - Don't Forget The Crisis

Comment by FF

Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:42:52 EST

Well said kerty... Objections(to your views) from the perpetrators of these lifestyles is understandable. Tax(and only taxation) is the panacea to all such ills. We must realize the power of money and put it to better use of human kind.

Comment by smallsquirrel

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 23:06:05 EST

kerty... it's pretty clear to me at this point that no amount of logic or clear thinking can make it through to your brain.

Comment by kerty

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 17:46:43 EST

AIDS has originated out of certain life-styles. It has entered the blood supply of nations only thru participants of such life styles. And now, it is claiming innocent lives as well through contaminated blood supply created by these lifestyles. Until these lifetyles are re-evaluated, made to pay the price and abandoned, it defies sense of justice and facing the karma. To find solutions medically would be futile. Because they do not address the root problems of these lifestyles. It means those life-styles want to be consequence-free and unaccountable and want the price for their sins to be paid by innocent society at large, by spreading their lifestyles even more in the name of AIDS awareness and safe sex. Why should people who have nothing to do with these life-styles pay the price? Why should people who do not want to participate in these lifestyles need safe-sex, AIDS awareness or need to alter their life-styles or be exposed to awareness of other lifestyles? In stead, AIDS awareness campaign has become a platform to promote such lifestyles, make them safer and consequence-free, make them acceptable to society at large, and demand rights and recognition. To me, that is politics of extortion and blackmail hiding behind innocent victims of aids that are produced by these life-styles in the first place. Only education and awareness we need is where safe sex does not mean sex with rubber, but monogomous sex only within marriage, where awareness does not mean slogan of AIDS kills, but certain life-styles kills, not compassion or rights for people who promote/engage in such lifestyles but punishment and banishment of such life-styles. And cost of such awareness campaign and taking care of innocent victims have to be paid from special taxation levied on these life-styles. Make it possible for AIDS victims to file class-action compensatory law-suits on people who promote these lifestyles in their commercial ventures ie arts, books, movies etc. That is the kind of AIDS awareness campaign India needs.

Comment by smallsquirrel

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:00:57 EST

oh, and for the record, I am a woman and don't you forget it!

Comment by smallsquirrel

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 13:00:04 EST

well what about all those innocent women whose husbands frequent prostitutes then come home and demand unprotected sex from their wives, who then become pregnant and also give it to their unborn child? you really don't have a clue what you're talking about. and higher-than-thou people like you are the ones who gets screwed by karma.

Comment by v.c.krishnan

Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:44:50 EST

Dear Sir, I understand your emotion but I am unable to appreciate it or should I say moved by it. If we screw around we get screwed! (I apologise for my alnguage), I am using it as I do not want to be Oscar Wilde or a Shakespeare to express such thoughts! All talk, and polls, about sex, Ha! what a great idea. It is OK. Do not get caught or expose yourself! What wonderful advice, and then we want funding to search a cure for it. MY FRIEND GO JUMP!! If you feel I am a prude well let it be I am a prude, but I am not to let my hard earned money to go help others to screw around! The specious argument will be. What about blood tranfusions. We are the people who work in the organisations who collect blood, screen them and supply them. Let us do that job effectively and sincerely, as a committment, and not as a job! Let us contribute more for the equipments which screen blood or researchers who can develop new equipments which can do this job well. Sentiments have no place when you screw around, let us face it and accept responsibility as mature individuals. Life is too short. Let us not waste one day for assisting screwers, let them get screwed! let the others use it positively by doing the screwing around as a true PRUDE will do and does not go with sentiments thrown around. Regards, vck

Comment by smallsquirrel

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 12:40:32 EST

uh. sanjay... maybe you would not act like such a smug [edited] if you ever knew anyone with AIDS. this is not about politics... it's about a disease. get off your high horse.

Comment by temporal

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:31:51 EST

sanjay: yes the UN numbers were bumped up but HIV-aids is still a deadly killer disease and should be relentlessly checked

Comment by Sanjay Garg

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 11:15:19 EST

After the India HIV rates were recently reduced to 50% of what was being claimed by UNAIDS, the HIV prevalence per 100 looks somewhat like this: South Africa - 12.4 USA - 0.40 India - 0.26 Spain - 0.30 Dominican Republic - 0.72 Thailand - 0.90 Russia - 0.66 Ukraine - 0.88 Portugal - 0.35 Maybe all countries should be like India where allegedly "No one "wants to talk about sex" ;-)

Comment by smallsquirrel

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:41:36 EST

many countries *do* require a mandatory AIDS test to get a marriage license. it is a good idea, and should be implemented everywhere. and yes, HIV can be transmitted through blood products, though most countries test stringently for that now. however, needle sharing is still a massive cause for the spread of HIV.

Comment by temporal

Sat, 1 Dec 2007 10:09:13 EST

ss: timely:) at a gathering i once recommended a mandatory pre-marriage blood tests you cannot imagine the bricks hurled at me HIV-aids is primarily associated with sex - but in reality a lot of is caused by tainted blood used in the hospitals as well as needles and innocent people can acquire it just as easily