Comments on: Birth Control Shots May Double the Risk of HIV, Study Suggests http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/04/birth-control-shots-may-double-the-risk-of-hiv-study-suggests/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: ABC http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/04/birth-control-shots-may-double-the-risk-of-hiv-study-suggests/#comment-29690 ABC Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:35:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=32250#comment-29690 Finally! The pope said "I would say that this problem of AIDS cannot be overcome merely with money, necessary though it is. If there is no human dimension, if Africans do not help, the problem cannot be overcome by the distribution of prophylactics: on the contrary, they increase it. The solution must have two elements: firstly, bringing out the human dimension of sexuality, that is to say a spiritual and human renewal that would bring with it a new way of behaving towards others, and secondly, true friendship offered above all to those who are suffering, a willingness to make sacrifices and to practise self-denial, to be alongside the suffering." God told him the answer a long time ago. God just forgot to mention that condoms are still effective, I guess. For those who think I'm a bible-thumper: I am an atheist. Finally! The pope said “I would say that this problem of AIDS cannot be overcome merely with money, necessary though it is. If there is no human dimension, if Africans do not help, the problem cannot be overcome by the distribution of prophylactics: on the contrary, they increase it. The solution must have two elements: firstly, bringing out the human dimension of sexuality, that is to say a spiritual and human renewal that would bring with it a new way of behaving towards others, and secondly, true friendship offered above all to those who are suffering, a willingness to make sacrifices and to practise self-denial, to be alongside the suffering.”

God told him the answer a long time ago. God just forgot to mention that condoms are still effective, I guess.

For those who think I’m a bible-thumper: I am an atheist.

]]> By: Jay Fox http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/04/birth-control-shots-may-double-the-risk-of-hiv-study-suggests/#comment-29689 Jay Fox Fri, 07 Oct 2011 18:26:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=32250#comment-29689 Seems to me that the whole idea of birth control strategies is to alter the woman so that pregnancy is not possible. It is not so hard to imagine that such alteration might prove hospitable to viral invasion, and not just HIV. How does the "other viral load" of these women differ from those not inoculated? Seems to me that the whole idea of birth control strategies is to alter the woman so that pregnancy is not possible. It is not so hard to imagine that such alteration might prove hospitable to viral invasion, and not just HIV. How does the “other viral load” of these women differ from those not inoculated?

]]> By: Puppetmistress http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/04/birth-control-shots-may-double-the-risk-of-hiv-study-suggests/#comment-29688 Puppetmistress Wed, 05 Oct 2011 06:17:15 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=32250#comment-29688 Correlation doesn't equal causation. They may have accounted for women on birth control having more unprotected sex, but what about whether sub-par medical facilities are using contaminated needles? Correlation doesn’t equal causation. They may have accounted for women on birth control having more unprotected sex, but what about whether sub-par medical facilities are using contaminated needles?

]]> By: andras http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/10/04/birth-control-shots-may-double-the-risk-of-hiv-study-suggests/#comment-29687 andras Wed, 05 Oct 2011 01:27:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=32250#comment-29687 you guys don't talk about the possibility that, given the sense of freedom from pregnancy, a woman can have sex more often, exposing her to more oportunities to get infected... By a higher concentration of virus in the genital tract... Andy you guys don’t talk about the possibility that, given the sense of freedom from pregnancy, a woman can have sex more often, exposing her to more oportunities to get infected… By a higher concentration of virus in the genital tract… Andy

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