i read on websites and yahoo answers some say hiv/aids is popular in the 80s and 90s is that true?
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1 :
There is more awareness now of the illness then back then :-)
2 :
Popular with who.. Theres more treatment than before but the cases of people contracting HIV is still increasing...
3 :
I don't think it was ever as popular as Miami Vice.
4 :
Using the word popular is wrong usage of the word popular in the context. HIV/AIDS is not popular. You mean, is it more prevalent?
5 :
In some regions new HIV infection amounts per year decreases due to better information now. However, HIV was indentified in 80-ties or so only and then there were not much cases in western world anyways.
6 :
I would not say AIDS/HIV was a "Popular" thing. I would say more prevalent. (meaning there were more cases then than now)
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From the perspective of number of infected persons, HIV is more prevalent today than in the 80s and 90s. There was a lot more discussion about HIV/AIDS than there is today. People started to get infected in the 80s and without treatment the mortality rate was high. The 90s saw the development of drugs that better controlled the virus. There is less discussion about it now because HIV is not an automatic death sentence. With medication, many live very long lives without ever hitting the AIDS stage.
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In the 80's and 90's HIV/AIDS was more in the news then it is now if that is what you might have suggested by "popular", there was a lot less information and until 1995 it was a death sentence until the "cocktail" a combination of medications started prolonging lives. The rate of infection has not dropped and HIV is viewed as a chronic illness now so some people are not as concerned. I've been told, "there are meds that will keep me alive...." but nobody is looking at the side effects after years of taking the medications. So there was more press back then, but there are a lot more cases now days.
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