maryportfuncity 9,988 Posted January 20, 2007 Re the gynaechologist thing; There was a well-known gynae who was a gay bloke and included - I think - Myra Hindley amongst his patients, and died of HIV in the nineties. If I had a clue about his name I could source summat, but it's true, honest! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Real Madron 6 Posted January 20, 2007 Re the gynaechologist thing; There was a well-known gynae who was a gay bloke and included - I think - Myra Hindley amongst his patients, and died of HIV in the nineties. If I had a clue about his name I could source summat, but it's true, honest! wow what a story... thats true? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 9,988 Posted January 20, 2007 Absolutely true, was well over a decade back mind, so the man's name escapes me. Back in the days the national press went apeshit when a doctor tested positive. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Anubis the Jackal 76 Posted January 22, 2007 Shocking account of the depths of South African AIDS denial Zackie Achmat is a hero: the founder of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa, he recently won a breakthrough in his long battle against the vitamin-loving Aids denialists of Mbeki’s government, to make HIV medication available through the public health system. Achmat has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize, and is a hero in ways you’d better hope you never get the chance to be. Meanwhile this vicious and unhinged hatred, this surrealist charge of genocide, comes from a colleague of the vitamin peddler Rath: from Anthony Brink, from the man who is credited with introducing Mbeki to HIV denialism, who has helped cost the lives of tens of thousands of people needlessly deprived of effective treatments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CarolAnn 924 Posted January 22, 2007 Shocking account of the depths of South African AIDS denial Zackie Achmat is a hero: the founder of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa, he recently won a breakthrough in his long battle against the vitamin-loving Aids denialists of Mbeki's government, to make HIV medication available through the public health system. Achmat has been nominated for the Nobel peace prize, and is a hero in ways you'd better hope you never get the chance to be. Meanwhile this vicious and unhinged hatred, this surrealist charge of genocide, comes from a colleague of the vitamin peddler Rath: from Anthony Brink, from the man who is credited with introducing Mbeki to HIV denialism, who has helped cost the lives of tens of thousands of people needlessly deprived of effective treatments. I have to agree with wow....just wow. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DevonDeathTrip 2,288 Posted February 2, 2007 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has announced to the world that he can cure AIDS in 3 days, using a few secret medicinal herb ingredients. Leading experts on the condition have cast some doubt on these claims. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,465 Posted February 2, 2007 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has announced to the world that he can cure AIDS in 3 days, using a few secret medicinal herb ingredients. Leading experts on the condition have cast some doubt on these claims. Perhaps they should just turn to him and say. "OK. Prove it" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Real Madron 6 Posted February 2, 2007 yep i would cast some doubt on these claims too.. well anyway lets give the guy a chance? surely there must be some takers who are willing to be test subjects? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,465 Posted February 2, 2007 yep i would cast some doubt on these claims too.. well anyway lets give the guy a chance? surely there must be some takers who are willing to be test subjects? If I had HIV I'd let them use me as a guinea pig, I wouldn't have much to lose, so far the brightest minds of the medical world haven't come up with a cure yet. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest DH Posted February 2, 2007 Wonder if anyone on that list caught it from someone else on the list. What does AIDS stand for? Arse Injected Death Sentence. (an oldie but goodie) Dickhead. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 9,988 Posted February 3, 2007 The most famous case of somebody moderately famous catching AIDS from someone else in the same position fame wise has to be the double anal scene that left Canadian pornster Lara Roxx with the permanent positive feelings. Am I remembering it wrong or wastn't there even a release for the tape? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth in Asia 1,020 Posted February 3, 2007 Wonder if anyone on that list caught it from someone else on the list. What does AIDS stand for? Arse Injected Death Sentence. (an oldie but goodie) Dickhead. no i dont think you can catch it that way more like dick - anus (pronounced in borat way) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 9,988 Posted December 18, 2007 One pill a day from now on. Unlikely to be that helpful to the likes of Greg Louganis who is - probably - too far gone already. The progress highlighted by this development does suggest the likes of Lara Roxx might have it easier and healthier long into the future. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Whitehouse 820 Posted December 25, 2007 What strikes me most is that the bulk of the deaths occurred before 2000. After that year you don't see that many people die of the desease. I think we can contribute that to two things. The awareness of the desease and the progressing medical research. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth in Asia 1,020 Posted December 27, 2007 What strikes me most is that the bulk of the deaths occurred before 2000. After that year you don't see that many people die of the desease. I think we can contribute that to two things. The awareness of the desease and the progressing medical research. Yes, I think those who persist with Louganis, Johnson (both Holly and Magic) etc on their deathlists might have a lot less joy than they used to get out of the likes of Freddie ("pizza under the door") Mercury all those years ago. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TAFKAG 70 Posted October 10, 2008 "Magic Johnson doesn't have AIDS!", say totally non-controversial shock jocks. He does have a magic johnson, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 9,988 Posted October 11, 2008 "Magic Johnson doesn't have AIDS!", say totally non-controversial shock jocks. He does have a magic johnson, though. So, let one of that shock jock pair offer up a body cavity to be smeared with some Magic semen. It'd score big on the ratings! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted October 3, 2014 HIV goes way back to the 1920s in the Congo. I skimmed through the article earlier and I don't remember seeing any part of it that addressed the million-Zimbabwe-dollar question. Exactly how did the disease transfer from chimps to humans in the first place? And wasn't Congo a French colony back then? So.... er..... Ahem Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,465 Posted October 3, 2014 HIV goes way back to the 1920s in the Congo. I skimmed through the article earlier and I don't remember seeing any part of it that addressed the million-Zimbabwe-dollar question. Exactly how did the disease transfer from chimps to humans in the first place? And wasn't Congo a French colony back then? So.... er..... Ahem This is about the closest they get to explaining that bit HIV is a mutated version of a chimpanzee virus, known as simian immunodeficiency virus, which probably made the species-jump through contact with infected blood while handling bush meat. The virus made the jump on multiple occasions. One event led to HIV-1 subgroup O which affects tens of thousands in Cameroon. Yet only one cross-species jump, HIV-1 subgroup M, went on to infect millions of people across every country in the world. The answer to why this happened lies in the era of black and white film and the tail-end of the European empires. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted October 3, 2014 HIV goes way back to the 1920s in the Congo. I skimmed through the article earlier and I don't remember seeing any part of it that addressed the million-Zimbabwe-dollar question. Exactly how did the disease transfer from chimps to humans in the first place? And wasn't Congo a French colony back then? So.... er..... Ahem This is about the closest they get to explaining that bit HIV is a mutated version of a chimpanzee virus, known as simian immunodeficiency virus, which probably made the species-jump through contact with infected blood while handling bush meat. The virus made the jump on multiple occasions. One event led to HIV-1 subgroup O which affects tens of thousands in Cameroon. Yet only one cross-species jump, HIV-1 subgroup M, went on to infect millions of people across every country in the world. The answer to why this happened lies in the era of black and white film and the tail-end of the European empires. "Bush meat" yeah, thats one word for it. Look, what I'm saying is that Frenchies shagged apes. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Magere Hein 1,397 Posted October 3, 2014 wasn't Congo a French colony back then? Belgian. regards, Hein 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phantom 2,465 Posted October 3, 2014 HIV goes way back to the 1920s in the Congo. I skimmed through the article earlier and I don't remember seeing any part of it that addressed the million-Zimbabwe-dollar question. Exactly how did the disease transfer from chimps to humans in the first place? And wasn't Congo a French colony back then? So.... er..... Ahem This is about the closest they get to explaining that bit HIV is a mutated version of a chimpanzee virus, known as simian immunodeficiency virus, which probably made the species-jump through contact with infected blood while handling bush meat. The virus made the jump on multiple occasions. One event led to HIV-1 subgroup O which affects tens of thousands in Cameroon. Yet only one cross-species jump, HIV-1 subgroup M, went on to infect millions of people across every country in the world. The answer to why this happened lies in the era of black and white film and the tail-end of the European empires. "Bush meat" yeah, thats one word for it. Look, what I'm saying is that Frenchies shagged apes. So you're implying that the Frenchies will shag anything if it was put in a dress, skirt or perhaps a chimp with a tutu? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Dr. Zorders 1,269 Posted October 3, 2014 wasn't Congo a French colony back then? Belgian. regards, Hein orite. Close enough. However it was a Frenchie (of sorts) who laid a lot of the er... "groundwork" in the 70s. i.e. it was the only thing he ever did while he was on the ground. So you're implying that the Frenchies will shag anything if it was put in a dress, skirt or perhaps a chimp with a tutu? No, not even. Just "haha French people" is enough for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Handrejka 1,840 Posted October 4, 2014 To take this full circle... All I was trying to say is that a lot of celebs who died in the early 1980s probably died of AIDS but didn't know it, or didn't want us to know it. Such as Old Man Steptoe, for example. And, dare I say it, possibly some of the cast of Dad's Army. Does anyone know who this refers to? As far as I know none of the Dad's Army cast who died in the 80s died of cancer. Arnold Ridley died after a fall, John Laurie had emphysema, Arthur died of a stroke and John le Mesurier had cirrhosis of the liver. James Beck died way before the 80s and Frank Williams and Ian Lavender are still alive and I think we can rule out Clive Dunn. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
themaninblack 2,112 Posted October 4, 2014 To take this full circle... All I was trying to say is that a lot of celebs who died in the early 1980s probably died of AIDS but didn't know it, or didn't want us to know it. Such as Old Man Steptoe, for example. And, dare I say it, possibly some of the cast of Dad's Army. Does anyone know who this refers to? As far as I know none of the Dad's Army cast who died in the 80s died of cancer. Arnold Ridley died after a fall, John Laurie had emphysema, Arthur died of a stroke and John le Mesurier had cirrhosis of the liver. James Beck died way before the 80s and Frank Williams and Ian Lavender are still alive and I think we can rule out Clive Dunn. It's been suggested that Tony Beckley may have died of AIDS rather than the official diagnosis of cancer in 1980... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
