Can we please stop devaluing the lives of addicts and just treat them with proven science?

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38. And can be stigmatized and their deaths celebrated by haters because they are gay.

Sorry that this is what you are dealing with right now. The AIDS epidemic is by no means over. Note from another thread, it is growing in South America:

The impact of reduced access to contraceptives is far graver than frustration over failed hookups. Venezuela has one of South America’s highest rates of HIV infection and teenage pregnancy. Abortion is illegal...

Venezuela had the third-fastest rate of HIV infections per capita in South America, after Paraguay and Brazil in 2013, United Nations data shows. The country also has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies on the continent after Guyana, at 83 per 1,000, according to 2012 data from the World Bank. This compares to just 4 per 1,000 in Germany and 31 in the U.S...

Supplies of birth control and emergency contraceptive pills as well as anti-retroviral drugs for HIV patients are also at critically low levels, according to IPPF and StopVIH...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-04/the-755-condom-is-the-latest-indignity-in-venezuela

AIDS is a disease that respects no gender, sexual orientation, age or border. No doubt AIDS is expanding in other nations. It is a heart breaker, destroying families and entire communities worldwide.

While I understand that HIV is not always going to result in AIDS, the last I heard it is part of it. Thanks for the statistics showing this is a continuing epidemic that requires attention. It doesn't make the news very often, does it?

But homophobes cite it as their justification for genocide of gays. Like that guy Putin put in charge of all Russian media. I won't even repeat it here, you've had more than enough this week, William.