There is nothing significant wrong with the information in the original post.

 

If it seems firm and opinionated, I prefer that to the "sloppy and careless" behavior that is all to often operative today.

 

As a long-term survivor living with HIV for 25 years and one who deals with the challnges of providing and funding HIV services on a daily basis, I am not offended by the issues raised.  Perhaps the fact that the empidemic here in Washington, DC is the worst in the nation and the equivalent of that in a Third World nation makes me react the way I do.

 

I am actually encouraged that somebody is trying to reinstate the healthy fear of getting infected with the virus so that people stop their increasingly irresponsible behaviors.

 

New infection rates that had been dropping each year for quite a while are now back on an upswing.  Only ignorance or negligence can account for that.

 

Stigma must be reduced but that does not have to conflict with engendering a strong sense of personal responsibility for remaining uninfected.

 

We need new, stronger and more effective strategies to diagnose and treat the infected . . . paired with . . . creative, stronger and more effective strategies to prevent new infections!

 

Yes, HIV+ people have a duty to disclose . . . but . . . that does not diminish by one iota the absolute self-preservation responsibility of those not infected to keep themselves that way by insisting on safe sex EVERY TIME with NO EXCEPTIONS.  If you have unsafe sex and get infected because you believed a lie, YOU LET IT HAPPEN!  DON'T DO THAT!!!