HIV supplanted with virulent apathy

HIV is on the rebound and the question being asked is why after decades of education and medical interventions are we once again seeing HIV rates on the rise? The stigma of HIV/Aids has been supplanted by apathy, we find ourselves far removed from the pall of death that hung heavy in the early eighties when HIV /Aids was still an  unquantifiable virus that in large infected only gay men. It has only taken thirty years for a predominantly gay virus often termed the gay plague, to indiscriminately stalk amongst the global population, not recognising borders  or socioeconomics  , to repeat the words from Marie Fischer’s speech delivered to the US National public congress in 1992, the only question the virus asks is are you human?

Mary Fischer was a mother a wife and a daughter of a well respected white American family when she contracted HIV from her bisexual husband she asked congress and the American people to put aside their prejudices and lift the shroud of silence of this disease she offered her own situation as evidence this virus touches us all.

The governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has recently cut back on AIDS assistance and spending, retroviral drugs have made HIV no longer a death sentence it has circumvented a new generation of affluent nations from experiencing the death and despair of HIV/AIDS. It is for some of the reasons complacency and apathy have crept surreptitiously into our midst just like HIV did in the eighties. Our tardy response back then led to 25 million deaths from HIV/AIDS, and today 33 million are living with the virus, how many new infections can we afford for the next thirty years?