About 25 years now since he announced he was HIV positive and from what I've read over the years doing quite well. See him on TV sometimes for NBA games. His son came out as a poofter a few years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by BaitongBoy
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About 25 years now since he announced he was HIV positive and from what I've read over the years doing quite well. See him on TV sometimes for NBA games. His son came out as a poofter a few years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by BaitongBoy
So in Thailand even if one is dumb enough not to wear a condom, getting to the bar and getting home afterwards are still the most dangerous part of an evening in Pattaya or Ban Chang.Quote:
Originally Posted by AntRobertson
Pretty much. Although I also recall reading ages ago that the HIV strain prevalent in Thailand is more contagious?Quote:
Originally Posted by BobR
Isn't HIV in Thailand more prevalent in prostitutes who work with Thai than those working with farang?Quote:
Originally Posted by AntRobertson
By the way my BIL died of AIDS. There is a story connected to this that still angers me to this day. Not going to discuss it on TD though.
So drop a bomb, but then run. Nicely done.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storekeeper
No idea mate. I just recall the variation in the strain thing from an article I read years ago about patenting HIV drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Storekeeper
If I had to hazard a guess I'd say yes though.
I had an old mate that contacted HIV back in the very early years.
He was a hemophiliac and got it through a dodgy blood transfusion.
Long time ago now must be at least 25 +++ years.
The Government gave him a massive pay out at the time, he had two young kids and a wife.
Wonder if he is still going ?
Must be 60 now.
Charlie is a different story though, Jesus he did get around huh.
Apocalyptic. I've allways felt the roll went to his head.
Not that many did. A friend of mine did too, 1 of only 8 or 9 in the state of Victoria. Wonder if they knew each other?
Charlie Sheen Spent $1.6million On Prostitutes In A Year Following HIV Diagnosis
Yesterday, Charlie Sheen bravely admitted that he is HIV+ in an emotional interview on The Today Show, and it didn’t take long for his former lovers to come forward and claim that he had assured them that he was “clean” when they were engaging in a sexual relationship with him.
The Hollywood actor revealed that he was diagnosed “roughly four years ago”, which is around the time that the star had his very public meltdown, that saw him call himself a “warlock” and that he had “tiger blood”.
Now, a madam has claimed that Charlie spent over $1.6million on prostitutes in 2013 alone - two years after he was told that he was carrying the incurable disease.
She also revealed that she supplied Charlie and his ex-wife, Brooke Mueller, with prostitutes up until a few months before he was diagnosed, and that the star would pay extra to have sex without a condom.
The National Enquirer have obtained financial records for Charlie’s production company, ‘9th Step’, that confirmed that the huge amount of money had been spent on sex parties - listed as ‘Friendly Entertainment’ in the records.
A source close to the actor said that there is no way of telling if he’d told the girls that he was HIV+, or how many people were involved.
According to Gristina, who pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution back in 2012, Charlie would spend up to $75,000 and $100,000 a night.
A former personal assistant of the 50-year-old has also admitted in an interview that there were many times that Brooke threatened to expose her ex-husband following their divorce, sharing: “Brooke, she almost pulled the trigger plenty of times when they were at war.
“I know there were times when she was super close to letting the cat out of the bag. She held that over his head for four years.”
However, the duo seem to be on good terms now, with Brooke being spotted embracing Charlie before he flew out to New York for yesterday’s interview on Monday.
Meanwhile, Jason Quinlan, a friend of a woman who allegedly slept with Charlie back in 2011, told the Daily Mail that the father-of-five paid two women $10million after they learned he was HIV+ - which he had not disclosed before they had unprotected sex.
TMZ are also reporting that at least six of the star’s former sexual partners are planning to sue the actor for ‘intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, sexual battery’, with some claiming they had slept with Charlie as recently as a month ago and he’d not told them about his illness.
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I'm doubting that's a side effect of the drugs...Quote:
Originally Posted by Storekeeper
But, yeah...Magic is the measure of what can be done with the drugs they have...And the money he has, of course...Haven't seen him lately, but whenever he's popped up over the years, he looks fine...
Charlie Sheen Stopped Taking His HIV Meds
In an appearance on the Dr. Oz Show on Tuesday, Charlie Sheen confessed that he had stopped taking medicine to manage his HIV and sought alternate treatment in Mexico via a doctor who promised him a cure.
Sheen told Dr. Oz that the side effects of his medicine were too much to bear. While HIV medications are more effective than ever, some people do continue to experience side effects, often stomach-related, from their regimens.
So what happens when patients go off their meds? Dr. Anthony Urbina, associate professor of medicine at Mt. Sinai Hospital, broke it down to Mic this way.
HIV, which hijacks a person's immune system, rebounds when a person goes stops taking treatment. At that point, the virus has the opportunity to infect new cells as well as penetrate deeper into the HIV reservoir, a store of HIV-infected cells in the body that's unaffected by medication. Treatment holidays, scheduled breaks when people stop taking their HIV meds, also became popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s, though, Urbina said, most infectious disease doctors would urge patients to steer clear of them now.
"The way you develop resistance is if you take your pills 40% to 70% of the time," Urbina told Mic. "If you stop them altogether, you won't have any drug on board to select for resistance."
Urbina said that, of those HIV-positive patients in the Mt. Sinai system on medication, close to 90% take their medication, which is higher than the 37% average nationwide. When on a successful treatment plan, a person who takes medications is undetectable, which means they're healthy and do not transmit the virus. However, not everyone can stay on top of their regimen.
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Urbina also said that Sheen should have had a conversation with his doctor before seeking out alternative treatment. Switching medicine and simplifying therapy could have been an option, if the side effects were too harsh, he said. There are over 40 options for medications, many of them one-pill-a-day and tweaked to suit a patient's specific needs.
"The responsible way to deal with those reasons [for lack of adherence] is to have a discussion with your doctor before doing anything that could end up hurting yourself," Peter Staley told Mic. Staley is a longtime activist with AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP), founder of the Treatment Action Group and star of the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague.
According to Scott A. Kramer, a licensed clinical social worker who works primarily with HIV-positive gay men, social stigma may still be the biggest enemy of a lot of people living with HIV, and that plays out in whether they take remain on medication.
"There are some people who say, 'I don't think about my HIV at all, except for when I'm taking my medication,'" Kramer said. But Kramer did say that these cases are increasingly rare with the advent of more tolerable medication. While HIV may be more manageable, and a less physical burden, the process of taking a daily pill can be a psychological burden.
Sheen may be in the middle of a perfect storm for HIV treatment struggles. Yes, Sheen is a wealthy, straight, white man who has it comparatively easier than many marginalized people who live with HIV. But Kramer looks at it this way. "In some ways, there may be even more of a stigma and less support systems," he said. "I think it can be more difficult."
Though sympathetic to Sheen's burden as an HIV-positive celebrity, Staley said that he is acting irresponsibly for someone in the public eye.
"To be a public advocate for a disease that you share with millions of people, it's a huge responsibility," Staley said. "It's not some personal vanity project, which is what it felt like watching this interview."
Staley also told Mic about the desperate things that people did in the 1980s and early 1990s before effective anti-retroviral therapy. Trials included substances like dextran sulfate or AL721. Like Sheen, some people tried much more dangerous experimental cures, like heating the blood and then reintroducing it to the body, but those were debunked as dangerous and unhelpful.
"We weren't doing what Charlie Sheen was doing, which was playing with a crazy cure person selling false hope," Staley said. "We were very skeptically trying things that had some modicum of potential and very little downside. In my mind, a lot of what was happening in the '80s was still rational."
Staley called any attempt to find a cure in the manner Sheen did a "fool's mission," but he was much more concerned about the impression it would leave on others who dream of a cure.
"There will be invariable phone calls to this so-called doctor in Mexico," he said.
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Charlie Sheen morphed into a clown long ago and Dr Oz started losing credibility with his "pop doctor" TV show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Mann
Both of them can please....just go away.
Many regular people have suffered more and many doctors have contributed more.
They are both whores.
Classic Sheen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hans Mann