{"id":172,"date":"2008-02-28T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rawtop.com\/blog\/?p=172"},"modified":"2008-02-28T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T22:30:00","slug":"who-is-actually-dying-of-aids-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/2008-02\/who-is-actually-dying-of-aids-these-days","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Actually Dying Of AIDS These Days?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a while now I’ve wondered who it is that’s actually dying of AIDS these days. I mean while HIV is going up and up among the young<\/a>, AIDS deaths are at an all time low<\/a>… So I’ve been wondering whether there are factors people have control over that influence the outcome? I wondered if it was guys who were mixing their cocktails with recreational drugs or what…<\/p>\n

Well, part of that was answered this week when a report came out saying 40% of people in the Canadian province of British Columbia who died of AIDS-related illness between 1997 and 2005 were not on antiretroviral treatment<\/a>. That says a lot about the Canadian system where your doctors are free but you pay for your meds…<\/p>\n

Next time you say you want the Canadian health system for the U.S., think again. It’s not as good as you think. It’s sort of a toss up as to which one is better – the US system or the Canadian system. In the US if you have comprehensive health insurance chances are you’re better off than you’d be in Canada. But the poor are generally better off in Canada – except now we see there’s big problems there too…<\/p>\n

But I’m not just trying to slam Canadian health care – since the people who are dying are often poor and…<\/p>\n

problems of mental illness, homelessness, drug addiction and food security have to be tackled first because those infected may not be pursuing treatment of a long-term illness while they’re faced with more immediate concerns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In other words it’s questionable whether the outcome would have been different if the health care had been better.<\/p>\n

So, who’s actually dying of AIDS these days? Looks like the poor are group #1…<\/p>\n

This has a big bearing on news out of China this week that the number of reported cases of HIV\/AIDS went up a whopping 45% last year<\/a>. That’s a country that doesn’t have big money for drugs so that’s really not good news. However, “reported” is the important word in that announcement since the finding may be due to increased testing. Still, if they’re not getting tested, they’re not getting treated, and we’re back to the Canadian scenario…<\/p>\n

I’m curious… When was the last time you knew someone with good health insurance and a generally healthy lifestyle die of AIDS? The fact that I’m even asking that question explains a lot of why so many young guys just don’t care what their HIV status is… Can you blame them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For a while now I’ve wondered who it is that’s actually dying of AIDS these days. I mean while HIV is going up and up among the young, AIDS deaths are at an all time low… So I’ve been wondering whether there are factors people have control over that influence the outcome? I wondered if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rawtop.com\/sex\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}