A group in Kenya, Moonlight Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services, has been providing HIV tests at night, offering an alternate approach for those people who are hesitant to get tested during the day for fear of being identified.
Over the last three days, about 170 people have shown up for tests, many of them men. Of those women who were tested, 98 percent were commercial sex workers.
The test organizers plan to expand the night testing to nearby regions to encourage more people to learn their status.
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."
