Vent about an article in Parade

brightning

It's been irking me all day. There was an article in Parade in the Sunday paper about how people with HIV can now be expected to live full, relatively normal lives into their 70s.

No, I don't get my medical information from Parade, but it's so misleading. Articles like this make it seem like a manageable condition - like diabetes - when in fact it will probably kill you.

HIV/AIDS has absolutely ravaged my family - 2/4 uncles have had it, one has died and the other has been on death's doorstep numerous times.

It seems like HIV/AIDS has fallen out of the news lately and it breaks my heart because people are still dying, there is no cure, the treatments are deadly (side effect of one of my uncle's drugs was high cholesterol, which caused him to have a heart attack in his 30s), and yet there are articles saying that it's become something that you live with instead of die from. Maybe that's true for other families, but it's not true in mine.

Okay, off my soapbox.

bridesrighthand

I completely agree.  It's so sad that things like this, mislead people into believing that it doesn't need as much attention and research as it has before.  When in fact, it probably needs more~!

PaigeC1981

I agree, you don't hear about it as much anymore.  I will have to go read the article now.  I'm sorry it has affected you and your family so personally. 

momofolivia

I agree that it is downplayed in the media now. It's not scary any longer.

MamaNikki

How about they go over to Africa and see how "manageable" it is?

dnagal

I just recently read a NYTimes article about how now it's much more "fashionable" to donate aid to Africa and other undeveloped countries for more "manageable" and "cheaper" diseases, not to mention the reduced flow of support from the US due to economic downturn.  So the HIV/AIDs picture is getting grimmer from both ends:  More cases, less therapy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/africa/10aids.html 

brightning

dnagal:

I just recently read a NYTimes article about how now it's much more "fashionable" to donate aid to Africa and other undeveloped countries for more "manageable" and "cheaper" diseases, not to mention the reduced flow of support from the US due to economic downturn.  So the HIV/AIDs picture is getting grimmer from both ends:  More cases, less therapy.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/africa/10aids.html 

Thank you for the link. I've also noticed a similar trend. In a perfect world, all of these issues would go away. It's so hard that people have to pick a cause when, really, they're all equally worthy.

In the meantime, there's a red ribbon in my purse and I think of AIDS every single day.