Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Unpopular Standpoint: AIDS/HIV: The Only 100% Preventable Epidemic

You read the title right. AIDS/HIV is 100% preventable. We could destroy AIDS/HIV entirely in one lifetime, wipe it off the face of Earth, completly eradicate the disease. It's so simple it seems stupid-crazy:

1. STOP HAVING UNPROTECTED SEX

2. STOP WHORING AROUND (that goes for both genders)

In the modern world there are only two ways to be infected with AIDS/HIV:

1. Have unprotected sex with an infected person
2. Be born to an infected mother

Don't try the "blood transfusion" excuse, we've screened all donors for decades now and any infected blood that might've been donated in the 1980s has long been used or discarded.

So, if people have only protected (barrier method) sex, there won't be any more babies born to infected mothers, because the women won't get pregnant in the first place. I'm sure that no infected woman would want to purposefully get pregnant and doom her child to death, right? And if they only have protected sex, the infection won't be spread to the next person.

Don't know if your partner has AIDS/HIV? Simple: DON'T F### THEM! Don't whore around. You really, really want to? Use a barrier method. He says he's clean? You want to bet your life on it just to get your itch scratched? Use the f###ing (irony there) barrier!

That's it. It's really that simple. AIDS/HIV is a self-inflicted epidemic. We've spread it through stupidity and bravado ("Can't happen to me," "Just this once, it's really not that likely," "But it feels so much better bareback"). We can stop it through education and just the thinnest slip of prevention.

Wear a barrier - save yourself!

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