HIV Testing: The Top Ten Reasons to Take an HIV Test

Becky Kuhn, M.D. explains the top ten reasons to take an HIV test:
(1) If you are HIV positive, getting treatment early can save your life.
(2) If you are HIV positive, practicing safer sex techniques can save your partner's life.
(3) If you are HIV positive and pregnant, getting treatment can prevent your unborn child from contracting HIV.
(4) You may have been exposed to HIV without realizing it.
(5) You can be HIV positive and not even know it.
(6) HIV testing is quick, easy, and free.
(7) Your privacy is protected.
(8) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that all adults take an HIV test.
(9) You'll be doing your part in the global fight against HIV.
(10) If you are confirmed HIV negative, you'll stop worrying you might be HIV positive.

This video refutes myths and misinformation about HIV testing from videos "Lee Evans Speaks Out About the HIV Tests," "Deconstructing the Myth of AIDS," "AIDS Inc.," "The Other Side of AIDS," and "House of Numbers." It also debunks the claims about HIV tests by HIV denialists like Peter Duesberg, Stefan Lanka, Kary Mullis, Celia Farber, Christine Maggiore, Gary Null, Andrew Maniotis, the Perth Group, Eleni Papadopulos-Eleopulos, David Rasnick, Valendar Turner, Robin Scovill, Brent Leung, David Crowe, Walter Gilbert, Harvey Bialy, Rebecca Culshaw, Roberto Giraldo, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, and Matthias Rath. Visit http://aidstruth.org/denialism/denialists, http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more.

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[abcdef6957]

There's reason to bar HIV+/Hep C+ people. Both kill. Blood banks aren't safe. In Italy, supposedly safe organs were HIV+ and got transplanted into unsuspecting victims. Later news reported organs had HIV and slipped through controls! Want to risk being next transplant victim? French Health Minister knowingly allowed HIV+ blood to be donated. Health Minister lied - said it was safe. Many died! I won't take chances!Ban HIV+/Hep C+ people from US! Remember Nushawn Williams? He infected 13 w/ HIV!

[abcdef6957]

Will Dr. Kuhn show us what it means that U.S. allows in HIV+ immigrants? Tons of AIDS infected people illegally flood America (puts us at risk). We don't need more contaminated blood banks! Recall dead Ryan White? And hemophiliacs that died from AIDS contaminated blood? It's back. Will Dr. Kuhn please show this fact?

[AIDSvideos]

@abcdef6957: (1) You have no way of knowing whether a cure (or a management technique that largely eliminates symptoms and progression) will be found or not. (2) HIV/AIDS doesn't kill 10% of the global population. There are about 25M fatalities to date and 33M HIV+ out of a world population of 7B. (3) WHO/UNAIDS projections do NOT suggest that 10% of the world population is expected to contract HIV, or anything close to that. (4) In sum, you're overreacting due to incorrect beliefs.

[abcdef6957]

@AIDSvideos HIV will NEVER go away. NO cure will be found. MDs report it KILLS 10% of global pop. Africa, Haiti, equator regions export HIV infecteds to the world. 1/10 of all people may get HIV. AIDS is certain death sentence! Getting killed by vehicles is soon outclassed by number dead of AIDS (WHOrg). In 2030 AIDS packs hospitals with dying patients! Go to a Black, African American community. NYC, Bronx is HIV's epicenter in USA. AIDS, Ebola, Marburg, Hep C will never stop killing.

[AIDSvideos]

@abcdef6957: (1) HIV+ don't NEED to stop having sex in order to stop the epidemic. If everyone (HIV+ or HIV-) simply used a condom every time for every sexual act, we'd end the epidemic in a single generation. (2) There is no "empirical evidence" that all HIV+ people will die of AIDS. That statement is provably wrong. As just one example, if an HIV+ person is hit by a car and dies, they're killed by the car accident, not by AIDS.

[abcdef6957]

@AIDSvideos IF YOU'RE RIGHT - THEN WHY ARE 24 MILLION PEOPLE DEAD OF AIDS? IT'S NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE RIGHT! NO ONE STOPS HAVING SEX BECAUSE THEY ARE INFECTED! AIDS DOES THRIVE ON FEAR AND IGNORANCE (I AGREE)! EMPIRICAL SCIENSE SHOWS ALL 40 MILLION THAT EVER GOT HIV WILL DIE OF IT! LET'S QUARANTINE INFECTEDS?

[abcdef6957]

NO ONE WITH HIV/AIDS EVER STOPS HAVING SEX! OR SPREADING IT! DRUG ADDICTS SPREAD HIV/HEP C, WITH I.V. NEEDLES! ALL OTHERS SPREAD HIV WITH SEX GALORE! THEY NEVER STOP HAVING SEX - DESPITE USELESS PARTNER NOTIFICATION LAWS. PARTNER NOTIFICATION LAWS DO NOT WORK! AIDS INFECTEDS DO NOT STOP HAVING SEX UNTIL THEY DIE! TRY WORKING IN HOSPITALS WITH INTERNAL MEDICINE MDs. I DID. ALL HEMATOLOGY DOCTORS CONFIRM THESE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT SEX! WILL DR. KUHN EVER DO SO?

[AIDSvideos]

You're stereotyping HIV+/Hep-C+ people and make wild unsupported claims and generalizations. In reality, there's evidence that people who know that they are HIV+ are more likely to take measure to avoid infecting others than those who don't know their status. So HIV+ people, on average, do change their behavior to reduce the risk of transmission. Quarantining and discrimination would only deter people from getting tested and drive the disease underground, where it thrives on ignorance and fear.

[abcdef6957]

People reading this forget that HIV/AIDS and Hep C are spread mostly via sex. Dr. Kuhn confirms the facts! People with HIV/AIDS or Hep C do NOT stop having sex just because they are infected and know it. They do NOT care! They keep having sex until they die! One man AIDS epidemic Nushawn Williams (now named Shyteek Johnson) kept having sex after knowing he had HIV. Nothing stops those people but death. Let's quarantine the infected and protect ourselves. Choose life!

[abcdef6957]

40 million people got HIV already. 24 mil. are dead of AIDS now. "Sex" is main tranmission route by far! Quarantining HIV+ is only resort! Banning HIV+ & Hep C+ is mandatory. Or U.S. infections will soar! Estimates on web are "AIDS is 3rd leading killer globally by 2030" (a known fact). Who wants to be one? Banishment from USA of infecteds is the only answer! Quaranting those here is very needed! Why put one's self at risk of sexually active killers. I won't! You should not either!

[AIDSvideos]

@abcdef6957: I really don't think there's any evidence HIV+ / Hep-C+ people are seeking to visit the United States in order to lie about their status and then donate their blood or organs. Therefore, you're proposing a discriminatory remedy to a nonexistent problem. If blood or organ banks aren't testing properly, the solution is for them to test properly, not to bar people from visiting the U.S.