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OE Companion Discussion Group

Mainstream anti-AIDS campaigns give attention to secure intercourse and clear needles whereas turning a blind eye to the well-documented health results of lengthy-time period drug use. A coherent rationalization for AIDS cases in growing areas of the world is the properly-recognized well being dangers in these countries - widespread poverty and malnutrition; lack of unpolluted water, a daily food supply, and sanitary dwelling conditions; restricted entry to medical care; endemic diseases comparable to tuberculosis, malaria, and parasitic infections that manifest in situations similar to AIDS; and the apply of diagnosing AIDS based mostly on a nonspecific set of clinical symptoms. Thousands of HIV-positive males, girls, and children all through the world have remained free of AIDS for up to 20 years or extra by quitting toxic AIDS medications, stopping or significantly lowering their use of recreational drugs, and pursuing well being-enhancing practices resembling proper nutrition, sufficient relaxation, and regular train. Although two-thirds of all AIDS circumstances within the developed world involve homosexuals, solely a small proportion of homosexuals have fallen sufferer to AIDS, specifically these main the quick-monitor way of life (which emerged in the 1970s), characterized by widespread use of recreational medication, excessive levels of promiscuity and venereal illness, and overuse of antibiotics.