Why I Quit HIV

[Guest guest]

I find this quite unsettling. What is AIDS then? And what are people

curing and not curing and treating etc.? I understand that HIV is a virus;

but what exactly does this virus cause and do? " Medical mysteries " make me

uneasy.

blessings

Shan

Why I Quit HIV

by V. Culshaw

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As I write this, in the late winter of 2006, we are more than twenty years

into the AIDS era. Like many, a large part of my life has been irreversibly

affected by AIDS. My entire adolescence and adult life – as well as the lives

of

many of my peers – has been overshadowed by the belief in a deadly, sexually

transmittable pathogen and the attendant fear of intimacy and lack of trust that

belief engenders.

To add to this impact, my chosen career has developed around the HIV model of

AIDS. I received my Ph.D. in 2002 for my work constructing mathematical

models of HIV infection, a field of study I entered in 1996. Just ten years

later,

it might seem early for me to be looking back on and seriously reconsidering

my chosen field, yet here I am.