what do you think
well i think AIDS research should be funded more than it's currently being funded i think that
uh people including i mean mostly the government but also you know a lot of Americans i think that it's a disease of of a certain population i meaning um homosexuals and and uh intravenous drug users
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right
in fact it is very much a a normal person's uh disease as well i think that we should fund much more
sure
right i think i i agree with that to a certain degree
um certainly on an absolute scale it should be i i think it should be funded more
on a relative scale um looking at it in comparison with other
problems and no it's not a big environment
i'm not so sure about that however
um yeah you're right definitely there's there's a definite um stigma out there that yeah it's it's it's limited exclusive to intravenous drugs users and homosexuals and um blacks or whatever
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yeah
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and that's not that's not the case anymore it may have started out that way even though there's there's still no proof of that
actually the most recent
um the that i've gotten is they're starting to look at um
well it started over in Africa they're starting to look at
i believe
but believe it of monkey
yeah the monkey i think
yeah there was some kind of research going on
and i can't remember what the exact uh gist of it was but something they hadn't considered before and it's like they now they're trying to go way back to the original
first outbreaks of it to see if they can uh nail down what exactly it was
yeah yeah
but uh
well you know you have you have a point about you know where there's other issues that that need a lot of funding too sure that is true
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but uh there's a lot of things that are funded and a lot of waste that can be redirected too i think that that again that uh
oh sure
yeah
you know AIDS is is something that has to be dealt with by every person um and and not just in
understanding that it's you know can affect uh everyone
but in acting um in a uh you know sensible way to avoid uh the spread of this disease
yeah um-hum well i i agree with that
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um the point i i wanted to make was just strictly the environment like right now they say we've lost forty percent of the ozone layer just last year
um
in in selected in selected spots and that's really becoming a really big problem but that's not to down play the importance of AIDS research you know
sure
right right
um when you think about that importance you also have to consider that uh
not only is AIDS good in and of it's own but it also uh has a lot to deal with
um cancer and with mononucleosis and all the all the various diseases that affect the T cell from a and the and the when the white cells of the immune system because all fairly interrelated
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right
right
so i think research on AIDS would benefit all that stuff
yeah good point um i i think more often should go into you know AIDS uh education
yeah
oh yeah
you know commercials you know public service commercials um schools
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things like that
but it seems a lot like they're almost covering it up at this point
yeah which is ridiculous
you you you really don't see a lot out there
it's like coming up with plague you know no it's not happening
yeah
uh disregard the you know one out of two people dropping dead next to you you know
right you know that's that's for sure i i like i said i go to school at UCF in Florida
and actually that kind of hits home because that Kimberly Begajah that had AIDS
uh and died from it she went to a dentist in Stewart Florida that's where she got it
right
right
and Stewart's like three hours away from where i go to school
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right people i hear a lot more in local news about it
uh more than that i had a couple of friends who went to that dentist
yeah
interesting
yeah and they were definitely sweating bullets there for a while um and found out that they they were negative you know they didn't have any problems but um
uh-huh
right
you know boy talk about making you think twice before you go to the dentist
yeah
or any health care practitioner at this point
yeah i guess so
yeah because they really the last article i read on that they still hadn't figured out how she could've gotten it from him
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because he he as far as they could tell he sterilized the equipment he used gloves he did all the the proper precautions
um asides from telling his patients that he had AIDS
um but still that didn't make any difference they still got it so they they're not real sure how that how that worked
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right
but uh
yeah i'm i'm a lot more cautious of that but
