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Let's put it another way.....
A friend of mine recently wrote a very long diatribe on people with HIV not disclosing their status and how it is their duty to disclose their status as positive to prospective partners. He apparently received a very strongly worded missive from someone in the "HIV Biz" admonishing him.
I brushed it off when he told me about it. I mean, what's the argument really? HIV/AIDS is a deadly disease. It will kill you. I don't understand the argument against telling someone you have HIV because, "Hey...it's your responsibility to protect yourself. Not mine." I disagree. I mean, I agree it is everyone's personal responsibility to practice safe sex and enter every encounter with the diligence as if everyone were positive. BUT...and this is a huge BUT...if you have HIV and knowingly have unprotected sex with someone without disclosing that fact beforehand then you are negligent. Plain and simple. Black/White. No grey.
That's not a slam against people with HIV. It's a fact. Now, do people take that knowledge and discriminate? Do they treat people differently? Yep. That's life. Is it fair? Nope. Can I do anything about it? Nope. If I were positive I would work to educate people and work to be as healthy as I could be for as long as I could. If you choose a different path, that's ok. But, with HIV, I think the entire gay community has a responsibility to educate and inform and work for funding for better treatment and hopefully one day a cure.
No Glove. No Love. Until There Is A Cure. That slogan worked in 1988, it works in 2008.
July 19 at 5:33 PM
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