Do you personally know someone with HIV/AIDS?

[betplom]

Serious question here.

I have never had any friends or family members contract the virus.

Who do you know personally that has this terrible illness? (No names please)

The only person I ever met with HIV/AIDS was an acquaintance of a friend of mine in Windsor ON.

That was in 1995 - he was a gay man and he died a few months after I met him.

Since HIV/AIDS became a problem late in the 1980's I have met a total of 1 person with the virus.

I have banged Cubans, Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, Polish & Russian broads, massage parlour girls, hookers, and non hookers and am still free of the virus.
My sexual activity is limited to vaginal intercourse and oral sex, NO ANAL!

I plan on dying AIDS/HIV free.

 

[Matty]

I do. Gay guy.

Interestingly, "only" 57% of all infections were caused by homo sex (in Canada, 1985-2005). Thought the number was way higher than that.

 

[stevek173]

I had AIDS from when I used to play on the Lakers. It was a long time ago, we all did what we wanted to pretty much between the sheets, people worried about a lot less then. On November 30th, 2006 I announced that I had AIDS and would be retiring form basketball. Since then I have beaten it, and have become a role model for people who contract this sickness to beat it.

One thing I will only say on Gamelive that I haven't said before is that I was only gay with Rambis. Boy was he somethin without those specs on! I regret nothing and would do it all again in a heartbeat.

 

[Mudcat]

Two guys I went to high school with have subsequently died of AIDS. I wasn't good friends with them or anything. I just knew them. One of them lived on my street. As far as I know, they got infected through gay sex.

I don't know if I would say I know anyone with AIDS right now. I have met a few people through my volunteer work in addictions. I recall we were setting up a program of community awareness in Toronto regarding opiates and ~3 of the people I was advising as potential panelists were former intravenous heroin users who had HIV or AIDS. I think I have met a couple other infected individuals in a similar capacity.

But I am not in regular touch with any of them.

 

[Tron]

I come into contact w/ people who are HIV pos all the time but that's because I'm a pawn who's a slave to the machine.

 

[CASPERWAIT$]

Three of my relatives have HIV. One died from it awhile back. The other two have had it for some time. One of the two has had it for over 25 years now.

 

[wal66]

As far as I know I have never known or met anyone with the HIV.

Pretty sure no-ones "plans" to get it (although some have done and do things that increase the risk) Plommer so you're probably not alone in planing on dying HIV free.

 

[Badnina]

I met a guy who had AIDS. Well technically I am pretty sure he still does. Met him back when I worked for an attorney who appointed to represent him on a murder charge. He was exonerated.