AIDS problem should be a social one the state should assume the management of even if they have to take apparenfly painful decisions. In order to defend privacy, so demagogic as hypocrite, it happens, in fact, the AIDS problem is managed by the individual rather than by society, something never seen in the past on the occasion of any epidemic (mad Man). But when an individual who, since the day before, had defended the generic right of keeping seropositivity secret, discovers he himself is seropositive or worse than ever he is affected by AIDS, he dramatically realizes how lethal is to defend the individual to the community detriment.
In fact the latter is made up of millions of other people who may in turn fall ill. At that point involving so many human beings as possible may not be a revenge, but a desire to turn an individual problem into a social one.
In the case of HIV and AIDS the validity of the professional secret fails when ” to defend” an individual a damage is caused to the community, that is to many more people.
Let’s consider the case of Santina, a Sicilian girl of twenty-eight years of age who, three years after her marriage, discovers she is seropostive: her emophilic husband was positive for HIV still before getting married, neither the doctor in charge nor the partner’s relatives had considered right to inform Santina before her marriage.
In a society based on an extreme individualism it’s normal for nobody to think being responsible for cases like this and if we consider them carefully, they seem to be legalized homocides.
Luckily not all those who have some resposability behave like that: an American judge sentenced to life imprisonment a seropositive accused of having raped three children. According to Michael Chavies, a magistrate at Miami Court, the accused, since he knew about his condition, actually made use of a mortal weapon.
Obviously when the accused should be acknowledged to be mentally incapable or shouldn’t know about his situation, it would automatically be denied that HIV had intentionally been passed.
This might be the case of a person where AIDS had revealed as encephalopathy or dementia complex. After fighting with his younger brother they both had got deep wounds in their limbs and faces. After some time the younger brother, who was negative to HIV before the brawl, discovered he had been infected with the same HIV strain of his older brother. In this case AIDS might have caused both the brawl ( by altering the behaviour of the subject suffering from dementia complex ) and the consequent infection of the sound person.
The HIV ability of modifying the behaviour of its victims so favouring its transmission, has, at least, two more analogous examples in nature. One is the rabies virus which, by making rabid the affected animals, drives the latter to attack other animals so passing the microorganism; the other one is the Herpesvirus-2(HSV-2) or genitalis.
The infection by HSV-2 seems to increase lust through an irritation of the genital mucosas it has affected. The consequent increasing of intercourses makes the virus transmission easy.
Meanwhile experts are arguing on everything. If in 1993 everybody agrees on stating imprisonment is incompatible with the disease, after many episodes in which this law was used by many criminals to obtain a total immunity, experts themselves back out and assert prison life is incopatible only when the disease is full-blown. Kiss as a risky factor becomes a trifle.
At first an expert kisses publicly a seropositive on his mouth to prove how HIV can’t be passed through saliva. After a couple of years the same expert says that perhaps transmission through a kiss is possible with some HIV strains.
Meanwhile experiments with monkeys, carried out by Ruth Muthm Ruprecht, an infectologist in the School of Medicine at Tulane University of New Orleans, prove that, for transmission through saliva, it’s sufficient a quantity of the virus much inferior than the one necessary for the transmission through sexual intercourses.
Ecclesiastical jurists are the only ones to have very clear ideas about HIV and AIDS. In the opening report of the judicial year at the Ecclesiastical Court Don Emiliano Massimo Mingaroli asserts the problem of a marriage nullity turns up when one or both the partners have got AIDS or are seropositive.
“There are at least four points of nullity – Don Mingaroli says – that we can directly appeal to: fraud (the sick person hides his condition); simulation ( to pretend to accept the bonus prolis and then actually exclude it); the subordination of the consent to the good health of the other partner, when the probable seropositivity of the other one isn’t yet verifiable; the mistake about the quality of the person when, of course, one didn’t intend to contract a marriage with a person ill with AIDS”. According to the speaker, in the presence of the HIV virus, there should be also ” the incapability of assuming the responsability of the marrige bond”.
The attitude of those who should institutionally be involved in AIDS prevention and possible treatment, seems more interested in the business of state contributions and pharmaceutical companies than in finding real solutions.
“Live AIDS” demonstration, live broadcast on TV from Piazza Navona, becomes a real brawl when the president of the League for the AIDS Fight tries, in vain, to speak. After being removed from the microphone by the security service he can speak only after the police intervention.
Practically the LILA president contested the fact that the money collected during the manifestations were all for ANLAIDS,his rival. And to complete the dispute Enrico Mentana, the TG 5 director, declears that at the International AIDS Congress at Vancouver the journalists were invited at pharmaceutical companies’ expense.
Translated from “Il Virus Intelligente” by Enrica Narducci
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