AIDS response: Spread Love not HIV

It is obvious in our society today that there has been a sea-change in the global AIDS response since 2001. Global funding has increased from roughly US$ 2.1 billion to an estimated US$ 6.1 billion in 2004, and access to key prevention and care services has improved markedly (UNAIDS, 2004). The number of secondary-school students receiving AIDS education has nearly tripled, the annual number of voluntary counseling and testing clients has doubled if not more than double, the number of women offered services to prevent mother-to-child transmission has increased by 70%, and the number of people receiving antiretroviral therapy has increased by 56% in most countries and parts of the world.

HIV prevalence in most part of the world is no more news; everyone is trying to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic with all effort possible. What as not changed though, is the stable HIV prevalence which means more or less equal numbers of people are being newly infected with HIV and are dying of AIDS and beneath this apparent constancy of steady prevalence lie’s devastating realities. With the enormous efforts of everyone trying fight this pandemic, the fact and the prevailing wisdom is that a lot of people prefer to spread the virus. With these realities in our society, we have decided to hear your opinion about the spread of HIV/AIDS. The questions and discussion for the next two weeks is as follow;
if I am HIV+ and I know it, but I keep having unsafe sex just to spread the virus, should I go to jail? (Should I even have sex either safe or unsafe with positive or non-positive people?)

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