HIV-Positive and Negative People Featured in Campaign
A national HIV awareness campaign launched August 19 and called “HIV Stops With Us” promotes unity between HIV-positive and negative people in preventing the spread of the virus, MarketWatch reports.
The campaign is up-and-running in areas such as Boston and Long Beach and Alameda County, California, and includes billboards, transit ads and posters, which feature positive people and the negative people in their lives including friends, family, health care providers and partners.
“I am proud of the campaign for putting real faces on our AIDS epidemic,” says Rep. Barbara Lee (D–Calif.).
According to the article, the campaign will allow local health departments and community groups to customize messaging to ensure cultural relevancy and cooperation with regional support services.
Local partners include JRI Health/Boston Public Health Commission, The City of Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services and the Alameda County Public Heath Department. New York City, Los Angeles and Buffalo will soon join the prevention effort.
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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 recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
