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Reply to "How come Magic Johnson is still alive? MILLIONS died of HIV/AIDS during the 80s & 90s."
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It wouldn't surprise me if there was a deliberate choice by public health advocates not to tout any idea of a cure for fear that it would decrease safe sex behavior. People started using condoms religiously in the 80s and 90s because they were terrified of getting a fatal disease.[/quote] I’m one of those public health advocates and no, we don’t do that. We actually want people to know HIV isn’t a death sentence because we want people to get treated. When people get on treatment their viral load falls so low they can no longer transmit HIV, and that is a much, much more effective public health intervention than condoms. When people are terrified of something (as they are of HIV) they feel powerless and often don’t even take the common sense steps like condoms they can take. So now, upping fear unnecessarily is not something we do.[/quote]
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