This seems so unreal to me, given that we know how the diesase is transmitted and that there are precautions that prevent its spread.

At Least 3 Percent of D.C. Residents Have HIV or AIDS, City Study Finds; Rate Up 22% From 2006

What will it take to get irresponsible people to stop behaving irresponsibly? They not only endanger their own lives, but they become an emotional burden for those who watch them die and suffer beside them, and a financial burden for the society that ultimately picks up the tab for their care and treatment.

It's spread is 100% preventable... and yet, it looks like people are spreading it around like wildfire.

I watched a documentary a few months back about people addicted to a certain drug. I think it was Black Tar Heroine.

Anyway.. the men and women who were addicted turned to prostitution for money for their drug. Two or three out of the 5 they followed for a year all wound up getting HIV. None of them stopped hookin' or taking the drugs. They didn't even use protection. They were so angry about their lives they didn't care what they did to anyone else, as long as they got high.

So this doesn't surprise me at all.

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On MSN a few months back they had a story about a organ donor that gave 3 organs to 3 different people and all contracted AIDS from the donor. I want to say 1 got the liver, 1 got the heart and the other got the eyes. I thought they had test to check to see if the person might be infected with HIV/AIDS. I guess this person didn't get checked and because of that all 3 receivers died from the lack of it.

Edit to add, he did get tested but it takes 22 days Per the report for it to show up. They believe he contracted AID/HEP C in the last 13 days he was alive.

I'll see if I Can find the link. It was really sad to read it.

Found it, sorry it was 4 people and they also got Hep C

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/89310.php

http://www.reuters.com/article/middl.../idUSN13630047

http://www.emaxhealth.com/55/18103.html

Sunset, back in the '80's the 40 year-old, monogamous, virgin-when-she-got-married, mother-of-two niece of a college professor of mine got HIV from a blood transfusion. I guess I assumed the screeing process would be more thorough now. That's really scary.

Yes it is scary to think that we have gone this far in the research of AIDS/ HIV and have so many ways to prevent people from getting it and yet with all this people are still dying. It's doubly scary for me as a parent since I have a son with only 1 kidney. My son was placed on the National Donors list when I was still carrying him. I learned he only had 1kidney when I was 13 weeks. Thank the good lord above he has never had a moments problem with his good kidney and I pray each day that will keep going till he's a old man. But in the back of my mind I still worry and now since reading that report I worry even more. To be saved only to find out you will die from something different. These families and receivers had to be totally in shock to learn of this. I feel for the receivers and families.

Your story reminded me of this lady I met some years back.
She was a nurse for a family planning clinic where I had to take my oldest DD when a boy attacked her at school and scratched her leaving a open wound. They did the AIDS/HEP C/ HIV, Etc testing there. She was telling me and DD about the risk of blood to blood transfer since she was scratched.
She told us about her only child her son that as getting married. He and his wife to be had came in to be tested and everything came out neg. But with in that year her son became very ill and had to go into the hospital where he learned he had AIDS. She told us the girlfriend was his 1st and ONLY, but the girlfriend didn't do the same and she cheated on the boyfriend with the wrong person , The girlfriend told the boyfriend, doctor and mother she had only done that 1 time, Sadly she picked the wrong person to do it with and both she and the boyfriend now had AIDS. .The lady finished the story Thur teared filled eyes and said it's been 4 months since her son died. I nearly lost it right there in her office. My DD cried and cried. It had to be the saddest story i have ever been told face to face.. I don't think I'll ever forget the pain in that ladies voice.

Organ / tissue donation is granted by the legal next of kin or health care surrogate after a person's death. Even if someone checks yes on their driver license, it's not an automatic, the call still has to be made. The questions are many and detailed, taking upwards of an hour or longer.

Unfortunately, the lnok or hcs doesn't always know if in the past there was risky behaviour, if the person was exposed, if the person is a carrier, or even if the person actually "had" something infectious. Sometimes when the agency gets access to medical records, it's discovered, but there are many variables.

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