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> There are AIDS activists because there are people who want to express sympathy for gays, to align themselves against conservatives, and thereby to express "wh

by panic 9y ago

> There are AIDS activists because there are people who want to express sympathy for gays, to align themselves against conservatives, and thereby to express "who they are". Millions of people have died of AIDS, and more are dying every day (around 18 per day in the U.S. as of 2014, according to https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/statistics https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...). If your friend or family member died to AIDS, wouldn't you advocate for its prevention and treatment? To say that these activists are fighting simply to "align themselves against conservatives" is insulting, to say the least. > There are no nephritis activists, because there's no salient group you align yourself with (kidney disease sufferers?) by advocating for nephritis research, there's no group you thereby align yourself against, and you don't tell any story about what kind of person you are. What about organizations like this? http://advocacy.kidney.org http://advocacy.kidney.org

glandium 9y ago
> Millions of people have died of AIDS Note, people don't actually die of AIDS. They die of something else, that their body can't fight because they have AIDS. Which leads to the interesting question: what counts as a death by AIDS in those statistics? Are some deaths that might be rooted to AIDS not included somehow because of causality uncertainty? (it's not because you have AIDS and die that you died because of it) > around 18 per day in the U.S. as of 2014 That's... less than 7000 a year, so according to the data from OP, less than homicide (15k), or illegal drugs (17k).
- panic 9y ago
  From the hiv.gov page: In 2014, there were 12,333 deaths (due to any cause) of people with diagnosed HIV infection ever classified as AIDS, and 6,721 deaths were attributed directly to HIV.

by panic 9y ago

glandium 9y ago

> Millions of people have died of AIDS Note, people don't actually die of AIDS. They die of something else, that their body can't fight because they have AIDS. Which leads to the interesting question: what counts as a death by AIDS in those statistics? Are some deaths that might be rooted to AIDS not included somehow because of causality uncertainty? (it's not because you have AIDS and die that you died because of it) > around 18 per day in the U.S. as of 2014 That's... less than 7000 a year, so according to the data from OP, less than homicide (15k), or illegal drugs (17k).

panic 9y ago
From the hiv.gov page: In 2014, there were 12,333 deaths (due to any cause) of people with diagnosed HIV infection ever classified as AIDS, and 6,721 deaths were attributed directly to HIV.