Today is World AIDS Day. This has touched my life in so many ways. I have family members living with the disease. I had members to also die from it. It hurts me to see them hurt the way that they do. I hurts me to see their friends and family turn their back on them also.
It is something that we can prevent. If you know your status that is the first step. Educating people and children on the dangers of unprotected sex. It is not about getting pregnant and gonorrhea anymore. Setting up more programs in the community. Especially now in the Black Community. Black women are the high in the statics of having the virus.
You can love someone with all your heart. You can even trust them to the point where you feel safe. Well me I feel even safer if I know their status. It is nothing against them. It is more of us being there for one another. It never and insult but a concern.
So when you meet someone new and you one day want to become intimate with them. Ask them about their status. If they tell you that they don't know, encourage them to get tested. You are not only saving your life but theirs. You will come out being the bigger person.
Protect yourself and other.. Learn, teach, and provide people you know with the knowledge. People living with HIV/AIDS are human, treat them as such. Don't look down on them. AIDS is like a cancer one day (hopefully) we will find a cure.
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