Vancouver Closing AIDS Ward- They still had one?? WHY ??

                                                                             

First a word from the publisher: t is March of 2014 and we still have AIDS wards in technology savvy countries? That Vancouver is closing an AIDS ward at this time and age is not as note worthy as the fact that with everything that we know they still had an AIDS ward. It can’t be for health reason or protection of anyone’s health except protecting the butts of the administration at the hospital but more important the local and regional authorities. 

For these people to be clinging to ideas which were never sound to begin with, AIDS wards was never a necessity for the sick but for the protection of the uninformed and political butts’ running any Institution that had them or currently do.  

VANCOUVER - St. Paul’s Hospital has shut down its dedicated AIDS ward, saying they no longer have enough patients — and the end of AIDS is in sight.

Ward 10C opened in February 1997 during the peak of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in Vancouver, when approximately one person was dying of AIDS every day. Earlier diagnosis of HIV, along with advances in treatment and care, has resulted in a significant decrease of AIDS. Patients living with HIV will continue to receive world-leading treatment and care. The focus of the ward will include treatment related to addictions such as various bacterial and viral infections like chronic hepatitis.

“It was not that long ago that HIV/AIDS was a death sentence and those who came to this ward at St. Paul’s were here to die,” said Dr. Julio Montaner, director for the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. “Today, ward 10C will provide treatment, support and care for those living with HIV-related issues. We have worked hard to make this day happen and I commend everyone who has supported our efforts.”

I wish someone would have ask him how having a ward of the same kind of people  which is not done at the hospital with other disease, like putting a cancer ward or a venereal disease ward or TB ward? But AIDS which is not easy to get for that these people needed a ward. I can understand visitors in certain cases wearing  masks to protect the sick. But the only reason a hospital would do this would be to appease instead of inform a community scared of a disease they know nothing about. The medical staff and administration  were supposed to know more than the public and alleviate fears with information. What a wonderful thing to put all those people in? These people Sick out of their own doing through a sinful sex to wards to have.

 People see them and stay away from them and for them to be reminded of what they have done to themselves. Vancouver this closure should have come with a sense of reflection and apology of how you have treated your sick. 

B.C. you are considered a world-leader in the fight against HIV/AIDS, with innovative programs that have reduced HIV/AIDS-related deaths by more than 80 per cent since 1996. The AIDS wards did not allowed you to effective in treating people with AIDS, it was the knowledge you acquired of the disease to be able to fight those opportunistic infection before antiretrovirals and after that the side effects like strokes and other ailments.

You would think that the administration of the hospital would be asked about the wards but no there is no need because this is promotion time. Administrators that bite the political bullet regardless of what is right or innefective they get a press conference to be brought out to the world as heroes.

UN under-secretary and executive director for UNAIDS Michel Sidibé, who attended this morning’s press conference, also announced that Montaner has agreed to serve as senior advisor on HIV to the executive director of UNAIDS.

This man says that he is proud????:

“This is a proud day for British Columbians as we mark another milestone in our leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS,” said Premier Christy Clark. “Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the community, those at the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS and health professionals across the province, a ward that once served those dying from AIDS, now supports those living with HIV.”

There’s been a 90 per cent drop in AIDS cases in B.C. since 1995 and an 80 per cent decrease in HIV-related mortality between 1996 and 2012.

As I close this posting I remind myself that Canada is the only country I know in the Industrialized free world that still takes HIVer’s to jail. One was just pronounce not guilty by the jurors on a two day trial. The deliberations took 45 minutes or less (says a lot for a 2 day trial) Thanks to the new world of information the people seem to be more informed than the people they elect to represent them. Canada is way behind on this issue. It is shocking that they still doing what we were doing until not long ago; taking hIver’s to jail like if HIV was a crime. When you have two adults that have the same information about sex and HIV available to them, it is up to them (as in 2) to resolve what they going to do and how. An HIV person should never lie about being HIV+ and the person that knows through a recent test that they are non-positive this non- positive should just not believe a word from a stranger unless there is a witness or something written between them saying that both or one of them declares being not positive.

But to have a person yelling and screaming upon becoming positive  that it was not their fault and that his partner should go to jail is not justice and the government should not be accepting this. It also does not make sense. There are a lot of guys that throw the dice and is not until the reality hit them that the anger develops into a mental rage. That rage becomes revenge in many cases and if one of the two has money to pay for damages the case is moving to both criminal and civil courts.

No one who is given the news of having been infected goes and says;” I know it had to happen to me sometime. I am responsible, but is not my fault and it is no body’s fault.  I will deal with it because Im strong.” No no matter how strong the person, how promiscuous or not this would the biggest shock in their lives. Worse than being told that they have cancer or anything else because of the stigma  and how one mainly catches this virus. SEX.

Adam Gonzalez, publisher of this blog

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With files from Canadian Press

There are no positive quotes from anyone in this article. All the negative editorial words of the hospital were written by the publisher of this blog.