from safeguarding their HIV- status. So that in theory, nobody who is HIV- is EVER responsible for seroconverting to HIV+.

I realize that many people are monogamous, asexual, or otherwise inactive sexually (or even merely ignorant), but for those who are more seasoned in life, and are familiar with the history of STI's in human civilization, I can't see how this kind of blanket absolution is sound.

Many people sleep around, and have lots of sex partners. That's not a judgment; it's a fact, and as I stated yesterday, a public health professional who refuses to recommend PreP therapy on the basis that, "well, if we tell them that taking the therapy will dramatically lessen the risk of becoming infected with HIV, then they will have more sex" is a health professional who should NOT be involved in guidance of those who are at increased risk of HIV infection.

Everyone who is involved in consensual sex should be smart and safe about it.

The vapid, insipid responses focusing on Sheen himself rather than the disease are too many to simply ignore. Which I find rather curious given the amount of them professing in one way or another, to be well-read and clever.

i see this here, with Michael Brown, with a million other things.

honestly, empathy is really in such shortage.

made. It's easy to "tut tut" someone when you're not subject to the same temptations on a daily basis.

Diseases are not curses from an invisible man in the sky.

From way back when, but still relevant today.