It might sound out of place, but been thinking about this AIDS business, the actual name of the thing. Plural last syllable of the name of this town, home town of Murdock and Stigwood and also Con Polites. The Princess Diana memorial is largely about him, in London though; as if dedicated to him and her only in passing. Why?
But there are Greek maharishi people here, and he used the name SIMS for his US student movement in the 60s. They made billions?
Well, that's the plural last syllable of my twin cousins names. Their father was a surveyor found dead in a room with a gas oven on, not lit, supposedly a heart attack before cooking a meal for them. Yeah, he did like high fat food. Did I write this before?
Rolling Stones, then managed by Stigwood, did a song "it's a gas, jumping jack flash." They also did a song little-re-rooster, about a John Wayne movie, True Grit, which contained the street address of the Brewsters at Burnside. The daughter Anne I met in late 1971, and she later seemed to become involved in domestic and international terrorism, with strong greek connections too. Maybe that's what Clinton's White House was referencing, but why?
Not to worry, they tell me guys like me are a dime a dozen. etc
http://www.heatherjeane.com However, there is still the domestic inside US terrorism issues to be resolved. Sorry this is slightly off the topic, but I feel that unless or until that is all resolved, it'll all be like a fixed horse race.

My partner has been Poz for 24 years, full-blown for most of that. When we lived in Florida, he was getting stellar care. He was fit and healthy, able to do most anything. His doctor was also Poz and together, they worked out regimes that kept them both in good physical condition, from meds, to foods and workout routines.

I got a job in NC and we had to move back to my home state. The lack of funding and the complete ignorance about HIV treatments of the doctors here was (and still is) a rude shock to the system. Since we've been here, one doctor withheld his medication and admitted to having put my partner in a control-group to see how long it would take persons without meds to sicken and die.

We only found that out AFTER my partner confronted the doctor about not having renewed the necessary prescriptions after months of requests and visits. Gee thanks, Dr Mengele :-\

Another doctor (a practitioner, not a real doctor -- but the ONLY recourse in that rural area) has misprescribed numerous times. Over twenty of her patients (whom we knew) have died from neglect or misprescribing. In NC, one has NO legal recourse for this sort of incompetence.

Well, the doctor my partner had after the aforementioned witch-doctor landed him in the emergency room, said that one possibly could go after an incompetent doctor, but it required a note from another doctor. When my partner asked for such a note, the doctor said (and I quote) "no doctor will." It was the truth. A known patient-killer is still allowed to practice medicine (and still as badly). The prevailing attitude is one of "who cares if we kill off a few queers and n----rs".

That's beyond disgusting -- it's outright repulsive. The ones who like to wrap themselves in Christian camouflage are exactly the same ones who tried to burn a cross on my partner's front yard long ago. The only difference we perceive is the lack of kerosene in later-day encounters with these vicious and willfully-ignorant arseholes.

At UNC-CH, my partner's doctors dispensed Leviticus instead of care, as if that was supposed to keep him alive. He informed them that he was perfectly able to pray by himself (and often does), but sometimes the proper recourse is correct diagnoses and treatments.

At NC Baptist, the doctors "forget" to return phone calls for scrip renewals, often for weeks at a time. When my partner had a heart attack this last February, he did get exceptional care at the Cone CICU. I and his attending doctors called Baptist multiple times a day to obtain the records his attending needed. The cardiologist called several times a day and I called at least once daily. Quite often, my partner has done without vital medications for weeks at a time.

The only way to stay ahead of HIV and its attendant OI's is to stay on medication and take it faithfully.

Not one single phone call was returned during that time. A couple of months back, my partner called ahead to make sure that his prescriptions didn't run out during the holidays. After a month of daily calls, he's STILL waiting for about half of them.

You see, it's not just a matter of funding. There is an HUGE amount of education that needs to be done. Quoting Leviticus at persons living with HIV provides no care and tends only to piss off everyone involved. That attitude only differs from any other bigotry by the thickness of a sheet.

Republican fearmongering and disinformation have been particularly effective at creating divisions and tensions in southern rural states. They have made an art-form out of promoting every vile form of discrimination. No amount of funding will ever fix that. Funding for HIV treatment will be welcomed, most certainly, but until we have quality, educated physicians instead of Leviticus-spouting witch-doctors, the problems faced by PWA's will never improve, nor will we ever see any letup in the pandemic.