Chinese officials have banned a meeting planned for 50 Chinese and foreign AIDS activists that was scheduled for early August, reports the Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ). The meeting organizers had invited experts from South Africa, India, the U.S., Canada and Thailand to gather in Guangzhou, near Hong Kong, to discuss topics such as discrimination against HIV-positive people and the safety of the blood supply.
Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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Overheard in the Women's Forum
"I think that it's OK to be angry. I am sometimes—it's natural—we are HIV positive. but I always try to not let myself stay there too long. Let yourself feel you are human. You should not beat yourself up about being angry."