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in western europe the same: they speak about right to health = test& treat as much and as early as possible! , and they mean to be non-infectuos for public health reasons. every time when i m talking in public on behalf of people living with HIV/AIDS and i'm strongly asking for freedom of choice, for the right to be sick, public health people call me polemic. but there is no poblemic. if i would be polemic i would talk about health-fascim. but i still have some hope left that new public health includes the acceptance of maturity of induviduals! ( we never meant that people has to be tested and treated when we supported and pushed the "swiss-statement".) michèle meyer switzerland
Thank you so much for this! It's about time we hear a voice of sanity. There is a growing chorus of voices insisting we should start HAART with 500 t-cells or even more, or even that everyone with HIV should start HAART immediately, and when you look at the arguments there is almost nothing behind them other than intuition and a cohort study so confusingly and vaguely described, as to be almost meaningless. As someone with around 650 t-cells, six years into HIV, it makes my blood boil to hear people try to push me into drugs based on such careless thinking. Then there are people who pop up and say "I've been on atripla for four months, I've had no side effects, it's great!" I'm happy for him, but to present that as an argument is ludicrous; get back to me in twenty years and let's talk. Even worse is someone who said that, since "most people" (does he have statistics to back this up?) who get diagnosed with HIV already have very few t-cells, the whole question isn't terribly important to begin with. It's important to me, mister! Again, thank you!!!!!
Mulberry Bayswater
Thank you so much for this! It's about time we hear a voice of sanity.
January 17, 2011