The question then and now is how
did a once friendly virus open fire on humans, and why did major attack on Gay
people occur. If there was another question that refused to be answered, it
would have told why they were no reports on HIV cases among the women, why was
it only the Gay men and not female Lesbian who were steep in drug taking and
deviant sexuality, suffering from the Pneumonia? Clearly throwing some muscle
to this fact, we may indicate that earliest cases on HIV had the presence of Pneumocystis,
(Pneumonia) that the resulting symptoms were those like oral candidiasis and
that it led to many direction that the embolism or the explosion of the candida
in the body results from a diminishing of the bacteria that once checked its
existence. The question and now is what bacteria or what growth inhibiting
factor of candidiasis that was altered to make the virulence seem more common.
For other accounts which need be mentioned her, Elton’s John ‘Love is the Cure’
is a detailing of his involvement in the life of Ryan White leading to the Ryan
White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency Act) in 1990 and the
President Emergency AIDS Relief Funds which was signed to the relief of the
world under George W. Bush. Ryan White had contacted HIV through a “treatment
for Haemophilia” and Elton John on hearing how the young lad was ‘ostracized’
by his community for HIV status, got involved with the struggle of the family
helping them fight the case of stigma that made the waters difficult for Elton
John and his friends. Among the friends whom he mentions in his book as those
ridden to secrecy for their condition is Freddie Mercury who he never mentioned
to anyone that he was HIV positive until his dying day. Then as friends and
heroes Elizabeth Taylor, for him, stand out for her courage in many things
especially for publicly embracing the victims of HIV virus. It is easy to take
faith in Elton John’s ‘Love is the Cure’ since it attempted to show that the
war against HIV cannot always be won on the theater of vaccines and medicines,
that there are preventive cures that are desperately needed. One of such is the
change of our attitude to those with the virus and by understanding that the
disease “…must be cured not a miraculous vaccine but by changing hearts and
minds….” John implored the peoples of the world and their very Government to
fight the terrible scourge of stigma, that “HIV/AIDS is a disease that not only
attacks the human immune system; it attacks the human social system.”
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