There are a lot of those commercials with couples saying “I have herpes, and he/she still doesn't.”?

I was just wondering with all the drug cocktails/treatments how come there has been no commercial yet saying “I have AIDS.” and “I still don't…” I guess society is still afraid of some things….? Any input from drug company rep or Physicians?

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Herpes is only contagious when the infected partner are having an outbreak. Control the outbreaks, then you keep that person from being contagious.

The same can’t be stated about HIV/AIDS. The treatments slow down the progression of the disease, but they do not significantly reduce it's transmission rate the same way herpes can be controlled.

I do think it's interesting though that sometime within our life time AIDS will go from a death sentence of just a few years to hopefully something like malaria where one could still live a long life with the disease.

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The HIV virus is hard to treat, and nearly impossible to kill because it mutates at ridiculous speeds which can and in most cases does make it resistant to any medications

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HERPES CAN'T KILL YOU! unless, you get cervical cancer. But Aids is extremely serious!

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The reason I’ve heard (and I come in contact with a lot of Dr.'s and reps) is because even though herpes is a problem, it 99.9% of the time does not cause fatalities or serious health problems. The Dr's I’ve spoke to state yes, the antiviral medications used to treat HIV and AIDS are very effective and it is possible to be with someone who is HIV positive and for their partner to be negative, they do not want to promote an attitude towards HIV/AIDS that causes people to not take the appropriate precautions (such as proper condom use, 100% of the time)… I guess they feel that it would give people (especially uneducated people) a sense that they do not have to protect themselves…. I mean look at Magic Johnson and his wife.. She is still negative and they’ve children who are negative…. Makes you wonder.

*** FYI- Herpes IS contagious even when the person isn’t having an outbreak………….