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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always find it interesting that a cure for HIV was found so quickly. It started as a men's health issue.  Yet, women are being forced to travel of hundreds of miles for legal abortions and absolutely horrible treatments for breast cancers and pediatric cancers. It's a man's world.[/quote]

Cancer is not communicable. I mean I agree that men's diseases are treated quickly, but equating AIDS to cancer is really ignorant.

AIDS was TERRIFYING. My mom is a doctor and says that they would need to put on hazmat suits to go into HIV/AIDS patient rooms because they knew so little about it. New communicable fatal diseases will generally get a LOT of attention. And it took a decade to get anyone to pay attention to it. The POTUS wouldn't even say the word AIDS. The LGBT movement was IMO massively bolstered by the AIDS crisis because

1) They were really effing motivated when gay guys started dying in droves 
2) It might have taken awhile but it engendered serious sympathy from the general public that I think translated into acceptance in general.

The two things are really not comparable. [/quote]

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