Comments on: We cannot underestimate the importance of AIDS 2014 /opinion/soapbox-opinion/we-cannot-underestimate-the-importance-of-aids-2014/125285 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:51:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Brad /opinion/soapbox-opinion/we-cannot-underestimate-the-importance-of-aids-2014/125285#comment-184199 Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:51:44 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=125285#comment-184199 As a gay man that has been HIV+ for over 20+ years, I find it so offensive that there is this campaign about ‘Ending HIV’.

When is it going to end? As yet there is no cure in sight, so does this mean that it will end when I die? Because that is my current reality.

Does it mean that people who are HIV- shouldn’t care so much, because the end is in sight?

I feel that this message is discriminatory and badly educated. All that is promoted is that HIV has will be over one day. When is that? I didn’t get that memo.

All this campaign does is alienate those who have struggled through the years with this awful disease, and sends the wrong message to everyone else.

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