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Katandi -> HIV 101 & Beyond-Shattering social & personal stigma-Know facts vs myths & kink positive freedom (2/10/2014 9:36:47 AM)

I have been positive for 4 years now. Even in 2014 i see social and personal stigma at large when it comes HIV/AIDS in communities around the world. Its not your fault if your misinformed, however its your fault as a social bigot with how you use the information once you been informed. Regan years did a number on stigma when he refused to be silent on the Crisis. This disease is non discriminatory. Regardless of gender identity, sexual identity, schooling, job, religion, nationality it affects and effects all people. I have my PhD, my background is in socialwork, very religious, come from a military family, and one time i decided to have sex after being celibate for a year i became positive. I found out Feb 21, 2010 one month later after the time I sero converted on Jan 13, 2010. This was a time before i became the kinkster i am. however two thoughts went through my head kill myself or put a face on it, i chose to put a face on it. I was a testing counselor in Utah before i seroconverted. after I seroconverted and found myself in San Francisco I dived into HIV services. in last 4 years I have sat on the HPPC (HIV Prevention Planning Council) The Mental Health Advisory Committee, I have taught HIV 101 at Berekley High, Prevention and Outreach specialist, I have been part of many protests against the defunding of ADAP and the prices of meds. I am a HIV public liaison and Educator, and peer mentor. HIV Counselor and testing Counselor, Public Speaker, Benefit Counselor and Navigator. I trained, rode and completed the AIDS Lifecycle in 2013 545 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 7 days. I have worked with Healing Waters. I am a LGBT Safe zone trainer and HIV/AIDS sensitivity trainer. I have spoke on the news for the new FC2. And I am great at making condom distributation fun, get guys and girls to take condoms even when they might feel embarassed. My record in 24 hour period handing out 8000 condoms 2 per person by going to bars clubs and having conversation about condoms. i am open about my status that way i can put a face on it.

So feel free to ask questions, i will reply to responses post blogs and information. And help you get rid of misguided information. nNot saying you have to play with those positive, just know there are safe ways to while being human in your interactions




subslave575 -> RE: HIV 101 & Beyond-Shattering social & personal stigma-Know facts vs myths & kink positive freedom (2/17/2014 11:03:38 PM)

Hi saw ur post and loved it...Kudos keep up the gud wrk..Comin frm a conservative country lyk india i see the stigma associated with this disease all around...Wish similar activists turn up here as well ans save our people from this ailment



ShaharThorne -> RE: HIV 101 & Beyond-Shattering social & personal stigma-Know facts vs myths & kink positive freedom (2/18/2014 5:48:20 AM)

It is nice to see someone who is infected helping to control the spread. Northeast Louisiana recently got a rapist who is HIV pos and the entire town was in an uproar about his status. To some of the people, having HIV is a death sentence, not knowing that it can be treated. Now the victims have been tested and no answer yet but I think the families are keeping it quiet until the trial so the state can add attempt manslaughter to the charges.

Keep up the good work. I used to hang out at gay bars because that was where I felt safer...not really looking for a man, just friends. Both my daughter and I are bi so we know to be careful (she has a girlfriend in France that she wants to marry in a few years after college).



LafayetteLady -> RE: HIV 101 & Beyond-Shattering social & personal stigma-Know facts vs myths & kink positive freedom (2/18/2014 8:15:40 AM)

I have a friend who I recently found out is HIV positive. Has been since before I knoew her, which was many years ago. It saddens me that she never felt she could trust me enough to tell me. It hasn't changed my feelings for her at all.

Would I be more than friends with someone who tested positive? Absolutely not. Its not a risk imm willing to take no matter how minor that risk might be. I know that even people who know the facts aren't going to want to become intimate with someone who tested positive. Something the people infected need to face. Its not discriminatory or being uninformed of the facts, it just is the way it is.

I do feel many people need to be more educated about it, but usually those same people need to be more educated about homosexuality, STDs' in general and a host of other stuff they don't seem to grasp.



shiftyw -> RE: HIV 101 & Beyond-Shattering social & personal stigma-Know facts vs myths & kink positive freedom (2/18/2014 3:06:55 PM)

From your profile: "There is a new med you can take to prevent you from getting it"

Do you have an article or release about this medication- I haven't heard anything that 100% guarantees safety against transmission.




MercTech -> RE: HIV 101 & Beyond-Shattering social & personal stigma-Know facts vs myths & kink positive freedom (3/5/2014 4:29:03 PM)

Back in the 80s; it was hammered into your that if you got HIV you were going to die a slow painful death within 10 years. And it was taught that the transmission rate was 25%. I remember talking a dental tech out of suicide after he showed up positive for HIV; he was exposed by a human bite.
It was one scary year and a half after I was exposed rendering first aid to an accident victim.
The testing for HIV in the 80s was an antigen test that might not catch the virus for months. You weren't considered proven free of the virus until passing screening every six months for 18 months. (That's what the military medical officer said at the time.)
I still hear from that dental tech every once in a while. As of last Christmas he is over 25 years HIV positive with no symptoms and no special medications. He has a bi-annual checkup of his immune system to make sure there are no new problems.



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