Every week this class challenges my mind and my thinking. It always makes me wonder what if I had HIV and was living with it. How would I tell my family and would I even tell my friends or the person I'm involved with? It even takes me to real life situations of me having HIV and wanting to donate an organ to a family member and the doctors not let you. One day I would like to have children and this weeks question got me thinking because something like that could happen. Kids are going to be kids and they are going to bite each other and not think about it because that's what they do. As a parent I am sure it would be difficult to put your child in any school always knowing that something could happen and the principal or teachers think that the other children could be infected. Many of those thoughts are ignorance and that's where the parents need to educate the principal and the teachers. There is still in the back of your mind what if the other parents find out will they outcast your family and your child and not let them play with their kids. HIV is a disease that is never easy for anyone. Although now there are drugs that help you live longer it doesn't change the way people treat you and they way people look at you.
DID YOU KNOW........
Black and Hispanic women made up 83 percent of reported AIDS diagnoses among women, although they represent only 25 percent of all women, according to Fraser-Howze's New York-based commission. AIDS is among the three top causes of death for black women ages 35 to 44.
The Washington Post (February 7, 2005) U.S. HIV Cases Soaring Among Black Women. Retrieved October 28, 2009 from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3318-2005Feb6.html
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Well I am glad you're back!
ReplyDeleteI am a black female and the statistics for black women are dangerously high. This puts it in perspective for me and I am glad that I am taking this course to increase my knowledge about the disease. I do not want to become a statistic and now that I am enrolled in this course I have more information than I could have possibly asked for to practice safe habits. The QOTW always having me asking myself so many questions! It really makes you put yourself in scenarios that you have never considered.
Wow. I am a hispanic women and the stats are surprising I must say. Glad your back as well. I am happy that I took the course as well. It has made HIV real. I feel like it can infect anyone and it gives me a sense of needed to always protect myself all the time. The QOTW are awesome. They really make you think about the answer.
ReplyDeleteWow!! as a Black woman, I'm surprised too! Knowing that AIDS in in the top 3 causes of death for someone of my gender and ethnicity is just another reminder to be as safe as I can be. And you're absolutely right, drugs may help an HIV patient live longer but they won't change the way people treat you. So sad, but so true :-/
ReplyDeleteThat "what if" question has changed my outlook on life in may ways throughout my days on this earth. The thought of putting myself in a potentially dangerous and life altering situation has made me reconsider my options many times. This is one of the many reasons that I have never tried anything like drugs, that what if question always seems to keep me on the strait and narrow.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the knew found knowledge from your "did you know" segment. Goes to show that you do learn something new everyday.
I thought about it too, if I was HIV positive and had to live with it for the rest of my life. It would be so hard and I come from a family with a little conservative parents. I do not even know how I would ever be able to tell them.
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