Would you remain friends with someone if you found out...

[Anonymous]

 They were HIV positive or had Aids? Would you hangout with them on the daily basis? I would remain friends but I honestly don't think that I would be around them daily. I would watch them like a hawk, if they were in my house.

[jessi2girls]

Again.. the first case of DEATH was 1981... My uncle contracted aids in the 70's, dear.. didnt' realize it until the early 80's.. from his SO.. It's been around longer than you think.. the actual SCARE because of the death didn't start until the 80's.. it's was pretty unknown about until the 80's, that doesn't mean it wasn't HERE already.. the 80's just happened to be when it was really brough up and recognized due to the deaths in 81. And yes this is in the states. Again, they preserved tissue samples from people that die of rare diseases at times.. and  one from a male in the late 1950's who had died.. was later (in the 90's after review) was found to be HIV positive.. that was in the US.

The young boy you are referring to was Robert Rayford, who actually died in 1969.. he was 15.. the CDC at the time didn't formally recognize HIV/AIDs Until the 1980's however, so his death was largely overshadowed and wasn't considered a "case of death" until  much later during the "panic".

Quoting Anonymous:

That's the WORLD. I said the first case popped up in the STATES in the 80's, and that was off the top of my head... And I did say (I believe-) I learned this in human diseases a while back...
I know its been around a while though...

Quoting Luv.My.Kidz:

Actually..... The world first became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s.

Blood analysis reveals instances of the virus as early as the 1940s.
While researchers aren’t sure exactly when and how HIV developed, the
most likely theories posit that HIV-1 – the most common strain of the
virus – was transmitted to humans from chimpanzees sometime in the early
to mid 20th century.

http://www.aidshealth.org/learn-about-it.html/5/

Quoting Anonymous:

Actually AIDS was discovered in the 80's. That's when the first case popped up here in the states (I believe) and I believe the boy was a young one...

Quoting jessi2girls:

Aids has been around for the last 50 or so years.. it's not like they just discovered it last week!!! My gosh!! There is PLENTY of research on it that's been done, and they've, because of the research, have extended the lives of people who contract it VASTLY!!!

If you need to err on the side of caution, it's clearly due to ignorance from YOUR end, not researchers end.

Quoting Anonymous:

That's a hard one! Since Aids is relatively a newly discovered disease I think we are still in a learning phase about it and would err on the side of caution.

[Anonymous]

Sad, sad, sad.  Acceptance of others is probably one of the most important virtues I find that you can teach a child.  I believe it's called discrimination or prejudice when you choose not to.  I think your situation is even sadder than those who are uneducated because you know better.

Quoting Anonymous:

Did you even bother reading my original response? I said EVEN being educated, it doesn't take away the fear. We have never been in that situation, as far as I know, no one we know has HIV or AIDS, so I guess I don't really know how we would react. I just know how I THINK we would feel. I do know I wouldn't go out of my way to befriend someone with a contagious, life threatening illness because I'm always worried I'm dying as it is. My mental health and being able to properly take care of my family is more important than trying to play nice. That being said, if I met someone with it, I wouldn't be unfriendly or standoffish... I just probably wouldn't become best friends with them.

Quoting Anonymous:

And there it is.  When all else fails, edit the person's grammar.  This is the ultimate sign that you know you are wrong.

Quoting Anonymous:

You're calling me stupid and you can't even spell "amongst"? Also, a question mark ends a sentence, there definitely shouldn't be a comma after one.

Quoting cutebaby06:

So tell me moms of Cafemom, why does there have to be stupid people on here?, and why do they feel the need to roam freely amongest us? 

Quoting Anonymous:

My SO and I are both hypochondriacs also and honestly, I doubt we would let someone with a life threatening, cintagious illness in our house, around our children. Even being educated doesn't take away the fear.

Quoting AnnieMcD:

 By "them" I simply meant "my friends" ... please try to take things in the context they are given. I don't screen my friends, and if I did I wouldn't discriminate against them."

And yeah, he "knows" that, but it still doesn't process in his mind. He freaked out a few months ago cause roomie brought home someone with hepatitis.

He's got Asperger's ... this is one of his "things", not just HIV/AIDS, but any life-threatning communicable disease. I love him, but sometimes I just have to stand back and SMH.

Quoting mommy_2_be_2010:

Them????? You mean the human beings who are infected right? I'd put your husband in a room full of hiv/aids positive people lock the door and let those human beings have intelligent conversations with the man YOU married i'd also watch his recation while in the room.

Does he not know that you can't catch aids from being under the same roof as an hiv/aids positive person? If you could i'd be dead a million times over from hugging a man(my own uncle no less) infected with aids.

Quoting AnnieMcD:

I don't do routine medical screenings on my friends. And if I did I still wouldn't discriminate against them.

My husband is a paranoid hypochondriac freak. If he knew he would be livid if I even let them in the house, for fear of infecting our child. 

 

[jessi2girls]

GALLONS.. not just a single gallon.. of FRESH saliva (straight from the mouth), on the off chance that there might be a tinge of blood that is infected in the saliva..

HIV doesnt' live well outside of the body. And really, who do you know that can spit that much??? lol.

Quoting Anonymous:

I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to knowledge about HIV/AIDS. I get tested regularly, and that's about it.

My 5th grade teacher one told us that when it comes to saliva, you'd have to drink at least a gallon of it for it to have any sort of effect. Is that true?

Quoting Anonymous:

I work at a aids clinic and this makes me so mad! Why would you not trust them? Because their sick? Your so stupid! It's not like a shake of hands and your sick. If they use your toilet your not going to get it. If they use your silverware your not going to get it of course unless they stab themselves get blood on it and then you stab your self and mix the blood well then of course! I hate people like you with a living passion, it's worse enough that their sick but they shouldn't be treated differently because of it.

[Anonymous]

Um aids has been around for years before it had a name .

Quoting Anonymous:

That's a hard one! Since Aids is relatively a newly discovered disease I think we are still in a learning phase about it and would err on the side of caution.

[tifbrown]

Yup sure would. I don't sleep with my friends and if I knew one of them had HIV or Aids I would take necessary precautions. As in keeping gloves in the house in case they ever cut themselves or whatever.

[demonicaangel]

No i would not have a problem with them, it`s not like we are going to be sleep with each other. I would continue to hang out with them just as i had before

[vinalex0581]

I wouldn't hang out with them daily only because I don't even hang out with the friends I do have on a daily basis. It's just not possible.

But I wouldn't mind hanging out with them. It would't bother me.

[randomosityblog]

Well I don't have HIV or AIDS but I wouldn't be friends with someone as ignorant as you.

[LadyBugMom09]

Yes.

[bozobean]

This exactly.

Quoting quickbooksworm:

I would. Unless they come at me with gaping wounds or body fluid I'm not going to catch it. I wouldn't marry someone with it but friends is fine.