Tomorrow it will be the World Aids Day. I used to work at the report about stigma and discrimination and remembered how bad I felt because of it. I clearly understand my son being ashamed to tell anyone about my disease. The society will come to the understanding that AIDS is only a scaring fairy tale, created by those who earn money on it with a permanent support of the mass media.
Practically speaking, what is AIDS? This is an ordinary chronic disease. There are diseases much more serious than this one. There is a weak immune system, when any disease has much more serious effect on HIV infected, in comparison with other people. For us, the HIV positive people, it is dangerous to stay next to those people with infections or colds. We cannot eat from the same dishes, share the towels or linen, and etc. If the healthy person won’t feel anything, the HIV positive will get sick, whereas HIV is only blood or sexually transmitted. Thus, who is actually dangerous for whom?
Why no one thinks of kicking people off with cold or flu from the hospital, whereas our kids are kicked off from kindergartens and schools? I can barely stand discrimination towards myself, but what kids have to do with it?
When my son was 13 years old, he had a toothache. We didn’t have money for the doctor, and as I signed the agreement with the 5th policlinic on any needs for HIV positive patients, Edik went there. The doctor insulted and humiliated him, cursed on him. When he tore the son’s tooth without anesthesia, Eddie groaned, but this moron said to him: "Shut up or get out of here."
It was a first time, when my son faced to the reaction of other people to my disease. Moreover, it was in his teens. He was really shocked and he couldn’t recover from it for a long time. I couldn’t find the proper words to calm him down. Now, I see why he is ashamed of my disease. After that, he has never accepted the medical assistance that I received as an HIV positive.
Someone shares this negative experience and someone just keep silent about things like that. I mean, after that, I clearly understand those people, who hide that they are HIV positive. They are mad at our society. Many of them do not use condoms when they have sex. Young, handsome guys and girls have sex with those who have families, they infect them and then say: “They deserve it.” You don’t understand it. But I do.
I raise this topic everywhere. People open your eyes. The more you would discriminate or insult people with HIV-infection, the more AIDS will spread all over the world. And no matter if you manage to escape from contacting them or not, life is a boomerang. That doctor, I’m sure he would pay for this one day. Those, who make people scare of AIDS, earning money on this disease, wont be left without God’s punishment.
Everyone can decide how to approach this issue, I can only advice to receive more information about this disease, before coming up to any conclusion. We live in the age of information and it’s not that difficult.
Ohh come on! Do you seriously think that other people can be dangerous for you?? It doesn't make a sense! At all..
Dear guest,
it is all about HIV-infected people be extremely vulnerable to any kind of infection indeed. Not about someone perceiving it disgusting. Thus, the issue remains open who is uneducated person.
To strain at people?! It is the same response of uneducated person considering an HIV infection as something that can be transmitted via shaking hands, kissing. IMHO.
'Morons' is unique phenomenon widespread in any country of the world. In Britain they call it 'chaves', in other English-speaking countries 'yokels', in Russia 'bydlo'.