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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
been told that different stains of HIV are not a good thing to have , bad deal from multi strains... someone let me know if this is misinformation
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I just did some quick Googling on that out of curiosity.
I googled up "is a person on HIV medication still infectious" and it looks like the general consensus is "maybe, but not likely" (my quotes)
So from what I'm reading...it looks like HIV meds take your viral load down to zero (but you still have HIV and it would quickly shoot back up if you stop the anti-viral meds)
With that in mind, I'd say that IF the guys are taking their meds daily (and I would assume they would so they can stay alive) that there isn't much chance of passing different strains of HIV back and forth.
Not only would their individual viral loads be so low...but the antiviral medication would also grab any weakened strain that MIGHT somehow get passed over (it would be "weakened" from the meds from the guy passing it on).
Anyway...I'm just as ignorant as the rest of us.
I'm just trying to educate myself a little bit and stay away from sensationalized ideas of what HIV is and how it is spread and how it is treated.
I personally think we have made this thing into a much scarier disease than it deserves to be. Not downplaying it...just saying that I think it's been over-hyped and definitely has probably the biggest social stigma of any disease since leprosy.