AIDS Drug Maker Promotes 'Gay Pride'

[Stark]

Supply and demand? :Q

"AIDS Drug Maker Promotes 'Gay Pride'
Seth Lewis, CNSNews.com
Thursday, June 21, 2001
The world's largest supplier of AIDS-fighting drugs is sponsoring a "Gay Pride Month" guide, creating a paradox, some say, by endorsing the homosexual behavior that is a leading contributor to the spread of HIV in the U.S.

"I make no connection between gay pride and HIV," said company spokesman Michael Joyner, who is openly homosexual. "I don't think the lifestyle has anything to do with AIDS. I think you would have to look to Africa to find [causes of AIDS]."

GlaxoSmithKline, which employs more than 100,000 people globally, reported surging first-quarter sales in April, with a nearly 20 percent growth rate for its prescription AIDS drugs in the U.S."

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[Siva]

The time when AIDS and homosexual sex were linked is over. AIDS is just as much a factor in the heterosexual community as it is in the gay. Maybe if this were the early 90s it'd be a different story, but I don't see anything wrong with what the drug company is doing.

 

[GasX]

flame bait...

 

[HansHurt]

some say, by endorsing the homosexual behavior that is a leading contributor to the spread of HIV in the U.S.


Who says exactly?

 

[Stark]

<< The time when AIDS and homosexual sex were linked is over >>

:Q.........

 

[Stark]

CBS News (Reuters)
&quot;ATLANTA, May 31, 2001

AP
(Reuters) Young gay and bisexual men, especially in the black community, are becoming infected with HIV at rates like these groups had when the AIDS epidemic peaked in the mid-1980s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.

In a study released to mark the 20th anniversary of the discovery of AIDS, U.S. health experts said that the virus might be poised to make a strong comeback, particularly among gay and bisexual males between the ages of 23 and 29.

The CDC said insufficiently targeted health education programs, growing complacency in the wake of successful drug therapies and the continuing stigma attached to AIDS patients could be responsible for the alarming rise in infection by HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Ironically, the battle against AIDS may have been undermined by the discovery of new drug therapies to combat the disease, including the introduction of powerful combinations, or cocktails, of anti-viral drugs.

Some health experts believe that the new drugs, which help keep the so-called viral load in a patient's body at a manageable level, have led to complacency about the epidemic and a return to risky sexual behavior, especially among young gay and bisexual men.&quot;