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Published: 28 October, 2009, 09:36
Edited: 29 October, 2009, 05:23


Fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS is the focus for fifty eastern European and central Asian countries who have gathered in Moscow today. In Russia, discrimination also adds to the burden of HIV-positive people.

 
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Count Cash October 28, 2009, 08:46 quote
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Let's not tell half the story here RT, you dress this up in a bit of 'Romantic Victims clothes' but tell the whole story. How did this couple get HIV, was it an accident, due to some transfusion, or was it because of deliberate lifestyle choices by the actors. Becuase we need the whole picture, that is so that we are fully informed. Now people need to accept responsibility for their choices, and it is the roll of government to try to make good choices easier and bad choices difficult, it is also the job of government to tackle exploitation and help correct situations where people start to go a bit off the rails. But it isn't the job of government to be a nanny, to be a save all, no matter what you do. It isn't the job of governemnt to make every one carry and pay for every delinquents mistakes. This is the European model, which just breeds a failed and delinquent population. So in terms of HIV, yes we need harsh education, yes we need take out the Drug supply route, yes we need research vaccines and cures, and yes we should have the best medicines available for people to buy. But what we shouldn't be doing is creating an atmosphere where we say carry on your current ways, and the state will make everyone pay for your folly. Now this can translate into needle exchange programs, it can translate into methadone replacement, but only under very very very tight and monitored conditions. We must never create a back end operation to support the drug industry in the first place. This is what the drug barrons, who exist in our society, want us to do, and we won't,.instead we will knock on your door someday soon!

Sarah October 28, 2009, 20:25 quote
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A lot of street children in Russia have AIDs. I'm thinking that is not their fault. I had a nightmare that I had been infected while I was at the hospital, which I couldn't figure out. It happens a lot in third world countries but not here, yet I was terrified of their needles and the iodine that they put into my brain because it smelled funny. I have strange paranoia sometimes. I know people affected by it, and I feel badly for them. I do not sleep around or do drugs, so I know that I am safe, but a lot of people get pushed into lives where this happens or they are too young to know what is not a good idea. It only takes one mistake, and you're infected forever.

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