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I am ingreement with you my friend on the lack of zeal and hope for a cure from our leadership in the field of HIV and AIDS. I look at this problem and poner this quasi science of AIDS for some time and the leadership will not use their political supluss to advocate for the concept of a cure. Yes, they will put fine peices of documents together meeting after meeting and advocate like hell for more money to keep treatment going and moving in all direction for their goals, while saying they are the community and many of these folks are not HIV, but will throw a bone to the HIV person now and then. It will take a new movment of advocates with new concepts with the zeal of the old school folks of the past that got us to this point in HIV care and treatment. Many see the problem and now it is time for solutions, my concern is that the old school folks are going to retirier and new acadimics will see AIDS as a worthie career to follow their old school programs and concepts. It is time for a change in thinking and action will the old school folks in keeping their program funded and the new progress thinkers with faith tofollow their hearts and pressure all to move forward in a do or die stragy. Keep up the advocating and keep up your hopes for a cure, for I believe a cure is out their and wil be unveil to the masses. I believe the begining of any movment it starts with Hope and a goal. You must remember that they only understand what their science has tought them and are torn with past truma and fat and happy to be in the mix to get a piece of the pie and attention, for they will say we are in your stuggle, when realy they have become the prison gaurds. Stay in the battle keep your voice out there, keep writing and keep the pressure on, for it is not over yet, for many are on your side for a cure and have the courage to keep the concept of a Cure for HIV and AIDS on the table and as you meditate or pray each day see the Cure for AIDS and the joy of being healed and released from this prison of hoplessness, that some are tring to substain unkowningly.
Thank you for being a kind human being.
So frightening, as someone diagnosed earlier this year, and after being aware of all the important breakthroughs and reasons to continue cure research, that what I now have learned is "the field" of hiv 'activists' are more concerned about how to keep their programs and platforms 'new and fresh' instead of the front line of dispersing the Cure. I've come to know one such career HIV 'activist', who belittles all the news I've shared with him about the cure research and the immediate need to fund these initiatives. I came to realize he had the same interest in a cure as Big Pharma does... if HIV is cured, where would "the field" aka, 'the community' that he strives to advance in professionally, go? Yes, prevention is important, treatment is important, but what's MOST important is what should have always been the front line of what true HIV + activists seek, which is a cure to this damming disease. To not even see this newest bloggers introductory post mention the word 'cure' once, is depressing to say the least. I'm 24 years old and recently diagnosed. I do not like much of what I see in the HIV + community, or, "the field". Thankfully some of the activists are truly more concerned with getting funding to the places in which it could do the most good, which is in finding a cure that would free all of the COMMUNITY of POZ people who ARE ALREADY infected of the disease and lifetime of stigma and expense in treating it, as well as the 'PREVENTION' of the disease spreading - a cure is in need of All of our focus and resources, and this is where the real activism is needed.
wambuique
Fred, i agree with you. The congress and all of that; "budgets, cuts,program and the like". My thing is as a HIV patient "what can i do for others in my "situation", how can "we" keep moving forward in life without thinking, "oh what if, if not!?". I personaly would love to have an organization to help out especially with places to live, insurance, food money to spend and information on how life can be LIVED WITH HIV AND BEYOND. I can afford to take care of everyone who needs care but, i can be "a partner", in seeing this happening. I want to be able to get "help myself", financially (which i'm doing by being a new author; realtor and a care give full time). My "thing is, show me you've tried and you can't in everyway", i'm a "silent fighter", just got divorced 2 and a half years ago, my "current living situation is a mess", but, that ain't keeping me from achieving my dreams. Which are; "an author, realtor and a HIV/AIDS advocate. I can go on and on. So my point is let see what "we as the patients can do", and not what others can do for you. "We", can make it, its' a matter of time and patience. THANKS A BUNCH; Wambuique.
June 21, 2012