Comments on: Time to review policies regarding HIV and Aids

By: Knowledge Is Power

Knowledge Is Power — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:05:08 +0000

2) quitacet on August 4th, 2007 2.43 am

With punitive & socially backward closed minds like you, any wonder why we here get the type of non compassionate government and people we so often hear other real 1st world countries talk against about. Let’s hope you enjoy your own medicine when one day you or your loved ones dun deserve any compassion for your own chronic illness too. What goes around comes around.

By: PositiveLiving

PositiveLiving — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:20:20 +0000

Do visit our website and we shall fight this illness together in a positive mind.

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» Khaw’s Medieval Approach To Solving the AIDS Problem. — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 10:33:30 +0000

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By: quitacet

quitacet — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:43:26 +0000

bad economics. free retroviral treatment extended to HIV+ patients comes at a high cost to the taxpayer. it is also a bad incentive for people to be more reckless with their sex lives since they don’t need to pick up the tab. and the more reckless they are, the more HIV they spread, which pushes up the costs of free treatment.

it is when people bear the full cost of the consequences for their actions do they wake up.

By: a kentang

a kentang — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:24:31 +0000

I’m not too sure about the arguments here. Whether or not one knows about their HIV status, it is quite likely that one will find out eventually when the immune system starts to fail. So the heavy cost is eventually borne whether or not the HIV status is known while the person still feels healthy.

I’m not sure, personally, when Retroviral drugs are prescribed for people with HIV, so its possible that the high cost of Retroviral drugs would be a deterrent. On the other hand, other treatments for HIV related diseases that occur due to the failing immune system will have to be borne some time or other even if the HIV status is unknown.

With regards to the mandatory reporting, it is possible to legally get around that by going to AfA’s anonymous testing sites. I’ll grant that not everyone may be aware of those services though.

Personally I feel that the strongest deterrent is the Stigma attached to HIV/AIDS, which the letter touches on indirectly. Its not just a matter of other people accepting a HIV positive person, but also that person being able to accept him/her self. Its definitely not something easy to change or address, and is further reaching than just changing economic/health policies, so i’m personally not too optimistic about drastic changes for the better. But every little bit helps, and we can only hope for the best.