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Whenever I'm talking to some one "like me," I feel more comfortable. In Uganda where I'm based,survivors loose their jobs, are discriminated against, harassed and spiritually judged as sinners on pulpits the moment you disclose your status! There is need to get together for those of us WHO know what it means having "it" in your blood and being subjected to daily doses,(which you take sometimes hiding in a toilet, least a workmate sites you and blows the whistle!)My brother its terrible. the victimization is more painful than the side effects of the drugs I'm taking!!!
I have been trying to reach people wherever I can. googling for the last hour for hiv support groups. I’m not sure if you want to add this to the NC chapter if there is one, but I want to help/council people where I can. I have been posting this message on support group websites so that I can inspire people where I can. let me know if I can help. “I've been there, i know what it feels like to be alone, and feel like nobody understands what you're going through. Ive suffered from an illness for two years now that most people think will instantly kill me. But i've never been more healthy.... physically at least. Emotionally, that's the most damaging part of any illness... feeling alone and isolated. I am posting to reach out to anyone and everyone i can, before you get so depressed you cant go on, or feel so low that you isolate yourself, contact me, its my goal to inspire and help everyone i can through talk therapy. I hope my video reaches you.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj0mpiVMWkM“
Way to go, Sean & Robert!!! Great work!
After relocating back to my home state of Iowa after 13+ years as a California resident I am apalled at the HIV criminalization legislation on the books in this state. It's absolutely caveman-like and based on unfounded and outdated hysteria. To sum it up, it's illegal to have sex in this state if you are HIV+... disclosure or not. Something has to be done about this injustice. You have my full support as I grow increasingly passionate about advocating for change. Perhaps the media here should give this issue and other important issues affecting human rights and injustice the same amount of air-time and press as they do with the "Butter Cow" at the state fair!!
Michel Sidibe's disarming admission of ignorance about what he recognizes as "unacceptable things" is also an admission that the Executive Director of UNAIDS has not informed himself sufficiently about very significant day to day hardships faced by people with HIV. What then can one make of his admission that he is "supposed to be very committed to all human rights issues"? One has to wonder what else Michel Sidibe doesn't know.
Ivan
Nazi leaders during the Nuremberg Trials in 1945–46 confessed that they did not know about the Jewish holocaust. Did anybody believe them? Sidibé simply does act to stop the miscarriage of justice against people with HIV. When confronted with the reality, he just pretends that he did not know.
March 4, 2012