interviewer through which. so people who think conspiracy theories conspiracy of the doubt set up a conspiracy is when one segment makes a play and against the interests of another segment and the other segment doesn't know anything about it. and when it comes to matters of mental health and therapy. not guy. was. half. the time it's. just getting back on my daughter. to try to force. was just. not been done.

and i think until you know even in the medical school curriculum you know. when to we talk about hiv you know important it is going to go into the next generation. is not just ignorance and stigma associated with a disease but in lack of compassion to keep. my mouth. by nineteen ninety five h.i.v. infections among black americans had surpassed white america. blacks accounted for forty percent of all newly infected h.i.v. cases. the most startling discovery was to learn that african-american women accounted for a greater proportion of new aids cases among african-americans overall in two thousand and three. it rose to become the number one cause of death for black

women ages twenty five to thirty four and persis to this day. after ten years from now. my husband and three year old daughter and maybe age of twenty nine discovered to have aids my third child was born very sick. we didn't know what was wrong with her no one was able to tell us what was wrong she was in and out of dol spittles and by the time she was about two my husband began to get sick my husband then wasn't feeling well he had a cough and we kept going to different doctors theon i kept misdiagnosing him first they said he had allergies they gave him allergy shots then they said he had tb they tested him and he's fine it doesn't have to be after about a full year of trying to figure out what was wrong and they then said ok your blood

count is really no he wanted to be emergency room and they said well you probably have a bleeding ulcer so let's admit you to the hospital and let's check you for you know we're not all syringes and we can take care of it they kept misdiagnosing him because he was a family man he was married we owned a home we had children in private school so we didn't fit that stereotype of what people with aids or a trophy look like people have histories people have done things in their lives my husband did do. but he had been clean for over ten areas so you know they didn't see any marks they didn't see anything that they thought was suspicious i guess that's the assumption and sold and never asked him so what happened is that people's perception of who got

a scot in that way. so by the time they figured it all out he did not have a bleeding ulcer and they then said ok we need to ask you some of the questions you know have you ever done drugs and those type of questions and then he said yes several years ago when i was in the service. and they tested him and he came back with full blown aids. fell even while my husband was sick and dying in a huff but all the you know i made up i did like many of us that you know i made up stories of what he had i been one of them telling the truth. because of discrimination because of fear because of him i don't want to people to be afraid of me he die on january first new year's day of course it all made sense then what was wrong with the baby and then she died. on into an affair.

i tested myself and my two other children but thank god they were healthy and they did not have the virus but i did when i was diagnosed i was very sick i was ab pounds i had no t. cells and i was extremely ill so i was diagnosed with aids diagnosis not an a.t.v. diagnosis i was given less than two years to live in the course of six brief months lost her husband of ten years first three year old baby girl and was herself diagnosed with aids. when she reached out to her family i'm blessed that i have a family that i do we don't talk about it but i've never felt like they were afraid

to be around me for many of those newly infected with hiv and aids silent except in spite family and friends is often not enough after everything happened i went to one support group then it was all guys they were nice men. and i was the only woman. problem with that was many of those guys were talking about things like how do i tell my parents or my family that i am homosexual and now they were those were dear conversations and their fears and their discussions of course when i brought up i am in a panic i just lost my husband my baby i have an eight in a four year old i'm going to die soon what do i do with my kids i have to stop working i'm now on disability i went from two incomes to a fixed income a disability check i'm trying to figure it all out so of course i think i'm going

to die because that's what i was told and for women for mothers are our focus now becomes not even about herself. it's about our children what's going to happen to our children my children are going to be orphans i can't even stand to be in the house with them and watch them playing because i was so heartbroken that i'm going to be leaving and i couldn't identify with the guys in the group so i figure i need to talk to some women and see you my only one that's still are with this or or or what recognizing that her doctor was seeing other female patients you had h i. came up with an idea i asked my doctor if i could put a flyer in our home in our office. some of the women so the whole a flyer in her office i put a secret phone line in my home because lots of family and friends didn't know i was

dealing with this issue and lo and behold the phone started ringing and i started we started talking to each other just on the phone none of us wanting to show our faces and as we became more comfortable i would meet them in a coffee shop and we started giving each other support that way and then started to support in my home where women will come together bring their children and we will just talk rye prepare for death and all of those things that we were doing pretty much on. women's group soon revealed. concerns. from a support group who quickly realized that services for women were non-existent if moms need to get to the doctor she was given a token to get on the bus to the doctor. she was given enough tokens to take the children to the doctor with her so basically she had no childcare she had no transportation so she couldn't go to the doctors she ended up not seeing

a doctor so we became a network of women and we shared our our very limited resources we shared our trends. helped each other. to appointments i ended up keeping lots of children in my. foster care system so i would say driving children to all different schools all over they see in maryland including in addition to mine so they don't get put into foster care system. that's reluctant a handful of shy women soon blossomed into a forceful group of brave souls. no longer able to accommodate the growing number of each ivy paused of women in her whole. row to grant funding and started the women's collective in washington d.c.

. women are. we are taking care of children. parents who say we have. our own. to take care of everybody. and i think we need to set up a system that is more helpful. and support women around the support system. to help them to be able to take care of themselves.

to better understand. thieves are still so persistent in the black community we checked in with you. straight after all it is they who will determine the face of the disease in the years to come. multiply here. it's very profitable to invest in colombia. is a very high return on investment. gould told me that he has said that i've been

working in this area for thirty years and i've always had to pay the armed groups at a meeting that is not a managers who change their name and strategy but just tell the same murderous. high ranking suspects give no comment pretty upset on that mr president goes. to president putin and. both the media. i won't give an interview i'm sorry but no. investigation is a dead. end he says sick stop your bullshit and keep quiet or else you'll suffer the consequences. even if they're your bodyguards to watch themselves because the same goes for them. recruits from sick i've never heard of such a case as ours are so much money and gold has spoken for so many. for all the

gold in colombia. the news sigrid laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything terms mission to teach music creation and why it should care about humans and we're going this is why you should care only on the dog. i think education is definitely one of the more important pieces to it because people are getting wrong information and they're spraying this wrong information

out there we learned about the technical aspects of how you catch it what it is what it stands for why not like percentage is and things like that and who are mainly affected my. yes just like general education knowing that stuff like when i had success that in school you never really learned about a child being late we just learned late about puberty and about a oh how to put a condom on but they don't really teach you stuff like hiv prevention and who falls into that category of who has it we're minimum incensing we're going to show you are like men having sex they don't shoot at all either you know it's very important to know about going to times about a man and woman having sex and the risk of what happens but never a few not a few more i'm male now we need to broaden it a little bit larger so we know you know if you need we need we need to be straight you know he gave we need to know information isn't there i think it's also important that parents talk more with their children about it we don't talk

a lot about that with us kids even today it's still kind of hard to broach that subject with the young people but it is so. i'm a famous letters like you do in the back you will get a new tool she's a new all this time who's new mom i'm a virgin turned to new grow up you know your man doing the right you going to get. mugged i'm pretty sure that's not cash that's how you catch it ok it's always the amount out there how to really get it she was like a lot that was a game as disease i thought they were given to us and i thought that's how you get it just from doing that i do have a big increase my nose and i get it i find it funny how when parents automatically assume that your child is going to be shared i mean and they kind of force me to it that is why a lot of conversations about hiv and aids don't really it doesn't really happen in the household because you're taught. you're kind of taught by your parents to be sure and you know to talk about anything that involves your sex life because you're

not street is conneally you know taboo to bring into your house and so he goes i'm not going to talk about you know the things that i can get you know by having sex because my mom doesn't want to hear about me having sex with another guy and for me is it's not even about just having a say it's with the same sex or opposite sex it's not having sex at all so it doesn't get beyond if you don't have sex and i'm not even windsor you get married type stuff just on sex and you know procreation when if i'm thinking about it you know i'm interested and all i can talk with my parents about it i don't feel like i can talk to them about that because they already say what they expect that as soon as it so i'm like ok if i do have sex what will happen i lack your pride but what about this on my kids. i don't know what they are i'm young i don't know and weak little h.i.v. we don't need to get to that because it's a don't have set i think many more open dialogue about it people are still very

very nervous about talking about their sexual health and their sexual behavior talking about sex as. pretty normal with my group of friends but when the consul like a child be an online education. that's not their home when this really awkward but we do talk about it it's not like it's not just a but usually when i hear other people so my mouth is usually like all some mind on a child. on their person not their sauce or. me in a negative not inspiring or educational life but when my personal friends my close friends issues are like look we be educating people or we're just talking about trying to figure out what what we know what's true what's mine simply just saying i'm a child be on my placement on the plane on the press on the plane with myself and both of those i really are healthy and can like. and i say effort. to. keep in mind that with the abundance of information now available about hiv.

snub their noses up the statistics they believe that with vitamins all they have to do is pop a pill if they should become hiv positive. community like we desensitize ourselves so much from aids i mean people as i always a mental disease if you can manage it you've got to have the park as their manager if you don't have insurance. because i don't think the average person can pay fifteen thousand nine hundred dollars in rent and still pay two hundred dollars a month for medication and for those for whom money is not a concern there is a physical cost to taking drugs to fight hiv take four pills of creature i take one for a lot of people i think a bactrim pill because they keep infections and stuff away and then i take. on the wrong party which is helps with the pain in the morning. and so i take that as six

o'clock in the morning i wake up started to take medication because. i did two hours to recover from second the medication and i go to bed i have my pill container and i'm out of water in the mornings when i wake up i just open the pill bottle to take the pills drank the water may back down let the side effects go through this nazia stomach pain tiredness everything and i go through just let it all go through or not that's why hours i'm good. dad is that. even well treated even with the best drugs someone with aids is going to live a shorter life than someone doesn't have aids and i have a lot of friends on these drugs at this point both in africa and here and you know if they could go back and change that and live a life free of a trivium i know for sure for certain that they would with thirteen percent of the population yet we have the highest rate of infection again it goes into not

a single answer. if i looked at how blood pressure what we'd be if i looked at colon cancer where would we be if i look at breast cancer where will we be if i look at. one. it is clear that the tremendous growth of hiv and aids in america's black community is driven by many factors yet no matter whom we spoke to physicians clergy political leaders and those afflicted with the virus it was clear that the real culprits behind the epidemic are ignorance miscommunication and most importantly a collective silence about how it is transmitted what it means to live with hiv and its phenomenal spread across black america. if we sincerely want to help the spread of this virus this is a problem that frankly is substantially preventable if there were really good

public health campaigns if people were really focused on this problem you certainly should be able to have a lot less a treasury a lot less human suffering and you would and that would mean a lot less energy and resources both in that a societal level but also personally trying to deal with it down the why would someone thirty seconds i was in london in the mid one nine hundred eighty was saying and you couldn't turn on the television without seeing the commercial about each having a child be a child be you know can protect yourself be attested etc you know day after day after day after day after day after day after day and that's a public health education tim obviously have not hand at a level of intensity and public health education and still don't have a bill we are still talking about any increase in the number of cases and we need to talk more to people who other people trust in the communities like for example

the hair salon the barber shop so we go there all the time we have conversations in there about everything you know so you know getting the right information it's in places like that places of worship getting the correct information that's out there can really help kind of hope this disease if they do think that you can more conversations better you don't necessarily need leadership from the church but you really need is leadership from somebody right so well that happen to have been the case may be commuted it was there would have been very fierce playwright larry kramer was a real leader in this conversation and in zimbabwe and in uganda in congo there were singers who were leaders in this conversations and other places or political leaders who didn't maybe could be almost anybody right maybe somebody has to stand up and take this on it doesn't matter who it is it's just long as one person cares and as her system. kelly and i think what's going to eventually happen as far as in our community is that we need to start letting young people and even young people

just people in general understand the power of their voice because eventually was going to happen is that. the new media is going to be this cell phone ok because as they see things put the video you know because now cell phones you could upload photos directly to youtube all these different things is that now they have the power to tell the story. as more people living with hiv step forward to tell their stories we will no longer be able to ignore them and pretend we are safe the conversation must be taken to the schools inside the homes and throughout the community to eradicate the myths and fears that feed this preventable disease. today african-americans account for fifty percent of all new h. i.v. infections every year unless we start talking to each other we will become

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