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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / January 2007hiv awareness
I am researching into the public awareness of HIV in the UK, and whether this awareness has declined since the early 1980's. I am looking for statistics of HIV occurance in the 1980's in the UK but have been unable to find a source. Can anyone help by giving me some pointers? Cofi dre In the godd ol' U.S. of A. (chuckle, chuckle) we have MANY government sources (lol). The Department of Health and Human Services, The Instutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAAD), and the National Institutes for Health (NIH). Perhaps you have similiar sights which you can plug into back in the GREAT Britain. All of our institutions are great at keeping statistics and demographics! Doug >I am researching into the public awareness of HIV in the UK, and > whether this awareness has declined since the early 1980's. I am > looking for statistics of HIV occurance in the 1980's in the UK but > have been unable to find a source. > Can anyone help by giving me some pointers? > Cofi dre cofi dre wrote..., On 01/26/2007 02:41: > I am researching into the public awareness of HIV in the UK, and > whether this awareness has declined since the early 1980's. I am > looking for statistics of HIV occurance in the 1980's in the UK but > have been unable to find a source. > Can anyone help by giving me some pointers? > Cofi dre I don't know about the UK, but if it's like the USA then you can't really say public awareness of HIV has declined. Everyone in America is aware of HIV, but some groups deliberately ignore it and it often gives the appearance of a lack of awareness. The usual proposed solution is to spend much more money, but as I mentioned the various high-risk groups tune out the propaganda because they think they're so f.cking smart. It wouldn't matter if the UK spent a trillion pounds sterling to strap every high-risk Briton into a chair, clamp his eyelids open, and force him to watch graphic educational videos about HIV, it wouldn't make any difference in the measured rates of public awareness. Think of it as a sort of brainwashing, where you can explain repeatedly that two plus two equals four and provide mountains of documentary evidence to prove it, and they will continue to believe it equals five. When I was in the UK in ('94,) I wouldn't have said that there lacked an awareness of HIV as much as an "it won't happen to me," attitude. In the U.S. we have many, many grassroots organizations eager to share their information with. Unfortunately, we also have many, many government agencies ie; The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Institutes for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAAD), the National Institute for Health (NIH), as well as various organizations and agencies throughout the country also vying for precious little fiduciary tidbits in order to further each's own agenda. In any event, you must have something akin to these in the U.K. who can give all kinds of demographic information? As I've stated earlier (in some other post), HIV is becoming a less important issue here as we now are considering that AIDS can be treated as a "long-term," "treatable," illness. Our great country has seen fit to cut funding for AIDS research as it is "just too expensive," and is opting to spend those dollars (so it says,) on AIDS in Africa. We apparantly are under no mandate to find a cure for the disease since there is just too much money in marketing the drugs that are supposed to be keeping people alive with the illness. ...blechhhh. Doug > cofi dre wrote..., On 01/26/2007 02:41: >> I am researching into the public awareness of HIV in the UK, and [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > mountains of documentary evidence to prove it, and they will > continue to believe it equals five. Doug Houge wrote... > When I was in the UK in ('94,) I wouldn't have said that there lacked an > awareness of HIV as much as an "it won't happen to me," attitude. In the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > money in marketing the drugs that are supposed to be keeping people alive > with the illness. I know someone with HIV and am disgusted with their attitude that it is not a serious illness, that it is just a minor inconvenience and consequently it is not a big deal if you accidentally infect a few others as long as you try to be careful most of the time. His attitude is that he's so f.cking great that any person in their right mind would naturally consent to having sex with him despite the risk of HIV infection. From his point of view HIV is an advantage, the inconvenience of taking a few dozen pills a day is far outweighed by the free welfare and medical coverage the government gives him, so he feels no guilt at all in sharing his gift of HIV with others. To be fair, these crackheads I'm describing deserve what they get, but it is just so damn expensive and the antiviral drugs compound the problem and increase the cost exponentially in the long term. "brainfart" <fart@brain.org> wrote in message > so he feels no guilt at all in sharing his gift of HIV with others. To be > fair, these crackheads I'm describing deserve what they get, but it is just > so damn expensive and the antiviral drugs compound the problem and increase > the cost exponentially in the long term. The longer you live taking the meds, the better the drug companies like it. It also insures a stable income so why not raise the price. The democraps have yelled for years, lets see what happens now. You're right. And I've been yelling it since 1987! Doug > "brainfart" <fart@brain.org> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > The democraps have yelled for years, lets see what happens now. I know that you know this "crackhead" person. But consider that a very large number of us got HIV before we knew it existed and worked for many years to pay into an insurance fund (Social Security) which is why we don't have to live on the streets. I cannot give you much better news than that. :-| /Doug > Doug Houge wrote... >> When I was in the UK in ('94,) I wouldn't have said that there lacked an [quoted text clipped - 39 lines] > increase > the cost exponentially in the long term. You're right too. And I've been poreaching this since 1987. Doug >I know that you know this "crackhead" person. But consider that a very >large number of us got HIV before we knew it existed and worked for many [quoted text clipped - 47 lines] >> increase >> the cost exponentially in the long term. > When I was in the UK in ('94,) I wouldn't have said that there lacked an > awareness of HIV as much as an "it won't happen to me," attitude. In the [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] > > - Show quoted text - Thanx for your pointers, have tried the government agencies etc but cannot seem to get any ifo prior to 1990. It seems to me, from the research that I am doing that the UK still has the same 'it wont happen to me' attitude today as it did in '94. You're absolutely right. I've been preaching that since 1987. Doug
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