Joan Rivers recently joked about how her AIDS charity work isn’t as meaningful because HIV is now chronic. Totally inappropriate, but the world sometimes needs to laugh at the seriously unfunny aspects of life to keep us going. Joan definitely touched on the reality of HIV medication advancements over the last thirty years.
People are starting to live longer, and HIV/AIDS is sometimes referred to as a chronic condition.
Unfortunately, Africa has the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world and is still in desperate need of ARV medication.
I’ve heard people in the States say they are skeptical of how effective ARV medication is for a person once they have full-blown AIDS. It is hard for me to believe people are not willing to aid in life-saving support, all because they are too lazy to do a few minutes of research.
Imagine this was your daughter. What would you do?
Look at the difference after 5 months of ARV medication:
It’s amazing how quickly a person on death’s door can turn-around if they are given the proper treatment.
It’s tragic that they all too often can’t get the medicine.
The little girl that I’m working really hard to convince my husband to adopt has stage III HIV. It breaks my heart to think of her prospects once she’s out of the orphanage where she has access to medicine.
I thought my husband would have an issue with the HIV. It turns out, that didn’t phase him at all. Instead he’s terrified of becoming a father. That’s what happens when you marry your best video-game-playing friend instead of a grown up.
Ohh Jessica, our husbands should get together and play some X-box. Does he have the dorky headset to play online? Mine does….
I know some guys are scared to be parents because they had a difficult childhood, others just don’t want to grow up! Once they actually become parents they realize it isn’t scary. He just needs to take the plunge.
If we adopted again I want to definitely adopt an HIV positive child. My husband says we’re probably done. I’m still not so sure
I’m wondering if there is any way while we aren’t adopting to some how financially “adopt” one of the waiting children over there and make sure they get proper medical care.