aids,
articles,
gay,
medicine,
sex
8:30 PM
Trial screening of drug aimed at preventing HIV transmission from infected to healthy partners found substantially effective.
NOTE: Reading the "Who Took Part" section of this outline of the study is mid-boggling. 18 partners in the past three months? 5+ drinks a day (while taking untested medication)? 60% having had unprotected anal sex in the past six months? Forget the STD rates in the participants.
Seriously, step it up, gay men. Condoms are not so uncomfortable, not so hard to find. It upsets me even more than I believe plenty of people would attempt to "ignore" the seriousness of these statistics because the participants are from poorer regions in South American countries.
Anyway, good news, depressing statistics among participants.
aids,
quotations
10:28 PM
“But because I abstract this disease, it periodically knocks me on my ass with its relentlessness. With almost any other illness you take for granted that within a week or a month the illness will end and the wonderful part of the human body called the mind will go about its job erasing evidence of the pain and discomfort previously experienced. With AIDS or HIV infections one never gets that luxury and I find myself after a while responding to it for a fractured moment with my pre-AIDS thought processes: “All right this is enough already; it should just go away.” But each day's dose of medicine, or the intermittent aerosol pentamidine treatments, or the sexy stranger nodding to you on the street corner or across the room at a party, reminds you in a clearer-than-clear way that at this point in history the virus's activity is forever."
- David Wojnarowicz, Close to the Knives.
