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bath to start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like this a period between the first outbreak of aids summer nine hundred eighty one and i nine hundred eighty five not only were people coming down with a it's and dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who didn't now more than thirty years since its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated who but in the back of their mind eight times he may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as other nations got a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's is right here and that's spreading out that way it's right in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black

men usually it's black men and black women usually we're spreading death among ourselves. both black men down and women are at much greater risk of getting age i.v. compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. so. i did everything

possible to get in this position you know i wanted that you know the way i did my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken elephant p g community clone and i think that's where our first first film went out when they told me i didn't believe it you know because i had all these c.d.'s like now. is a cool way. in bed with my thinking about it it will way but it didn't go away and stanley's response was you know me now oh it was definitely does like i already already you know i was like ok if i get it i'm like yeah. you know i'm one again. you know i probably did go get a had bad day you know i would not think about it because i know i know and i know me so i play and we get home and. you know you tell me i had it all had

a long. who want to know who won i would have buying. so many drugs that he did you take my calls for me. and i had and you know one time i had to get stats like greece has a week. just like. i've been. on that be a neighbor and if you don't wish it was you know everything everything is heavy you know when they say have you very weak and you still gotta get you get to hit the street shot so we yeah honestly i think. i had three blood transfusions because it hit me and. so it out was an experience within the self and after living with hiv for over thirty years if i tell you my story. is that all of it you got to go through. and it's like. everybody's

body is different you know everybody's body is different what i go through you may never go through then again you might go through it twice is worse so don't look at me and say oh yeah i'm opposed to no i'm not opposed to. someone then with it's every. i remember when major magazine said this would never be a heterosexual disease it would always be you know in the in the gay community it would always been the drug community it would now have a spread to they had all sorts of community well that was false but when people heard that it was like all thank god i'm heterosexual i don't have to deal with i don't have to be worried about this you know this epidemic our investigation reaffirmed that men having sex with men are highly susceptible to contract ing hiv

. what we also learned is that straight ahead roe sexual black men are a rising tide in contributing to the growth of this deadly virus taking percent of the population may be african-american but we make up a much larger percentage of the individuals. that infected with hiv the any and it is brewing especially among young people he's a young african-american the centers for disease control have presented strong data showing that youth between ages thirteen to twenty nine are an ever growing population falling prey to h i v. however we learned of a segment of this group that seems to have gone almost unnoticed youth born with this disease i've heard women use the terminology you know he gave this to me

when somebody gave you something it's because you accepted i contracted hiv from this man i was in a relationship with him and we had a child i love my daughter he meant three i thank him and for whatever reason that god use him and me as a vehicle to bring this challenge to the world h.i.v.'s here the elephant is in the room is what i'm doing with that elephant i no longer. i have locked myself into this anger you know look what he did to me. when i burned spawn thousand entirely positive i was six years old and. it was at my doctor's appointment and you know how they have a play room for kids you know when waiting for the doctor and i was in the play room whilst playing and it's a crime i'm out the pay room so i guess those who are paying for the tell me my doctor came out the room and he came and picked me up from the playroom and when we

went into the room i see my mom and bill of tears so me i'm pulling away from my doctor like mommy i'm still in toys because you know i don't know why my mom was crying and she was like most we had just come in and the doctors was like you know your mom want to talk to you so i'm like ok and she just told me she just like blurted out i guess i just passed so like standup and how she just blurt she's blurted out and so my first question was that always on a diet because i used to hear like a lot of kids in africa dying from a child being made so that was my biggest fear that i was going to die they broke down and saw a way that i could understand they you know there's medications out there that's going to take care of you but you know this is something that's going that you're going to live with forever i shared with the school that raising it had been possible i never expected and. i never expected teachers would have discriminated against or even i never expected that administrators would not have taken the time to learn and understand how this disease is transmitted so they wouldn't

discriminate against it. so when i went to school the next day and i had told my own friend i say you know i went to the doctor and my doctor told me that i had my mom told that i had hiv and i soon as i said that my teacher she automatically pulled my friend away from me and put up a glows around the classroom and do sort of back to her knowing that i was hiv positive i couldn't go on any crash if she's to pull garbage bags around me like if i had to use the bathroom she let me use the bathroom or myself choose to take my school lunch away from me or do so factor me being a child be positive she was abused she was abused by always school system other children started harassing gravely and she even got older would to know that adults treated this child the way that she did i mean a child was in catholic school. private schools you would think you know somebody know better they do better that was not the case kids used to make fun of me saying

that i have the monster or they used to just that i would get things to me like this one guy used to have long hair she cut my hair off one day like i was when i was watching a movie in class and all of a sudden i heard says gold charm and i just went like and she was like yeah i'm cutting your hair off because you're going to die soon and i just sat there and i love how continue doing it and because i'd just like as i said when grown up i just felt like you know this is how my life is going to be like everybody just going to make fun of me but everyone did not make fun of her and the tender age of six i got from the oprah winfrey and i was a millennium dream at the time that's when mcdonald's was doing kids that dealing with any type of onus they would send them back to disney world i went on my show and i was sick at that time i had a fever and i was like oh i'm sick i don't want to sit next to me and she just open hans and mike sweetheart i don't care what you have you're on my shoulder i want

you to tell me what what do you go through and like i just remember me sin talk to oprah and she was just crying my mother just stop crying because man just telling everybody i'm having a child being i'm always sick and i told them i'm done openly just like well how about if i send you to disney world or something and hope i didn't move and then we went they always wanted to go there and irish eastern opus sent me to disney world and i confronted her dad he said to me ain't life ain't life a bitch. you know how long i've been living with this he called me and he was just like why he was on the show why did you tell people to eat i'm positive you shouldn't do that how do you think i'm going to look so is like who says like one though he does as i when he hears asked why it's on the magazine our science on the hill just get upset like he's not supportive of wide so as raven grew into her teens life with her mom became strained the age of thirteen i always saw people add

they tried taking my life away me my mom started making really arguing and like isis i get really mad at her it was just it was a lot to me at that i say my teenage years was like my. mom got to the age of like sixteen seventeen i had to make realize like you know even. your mom didn't do something but you know she didn't know at the time and i had to realize i had to put my family sense into this like. i was born with that i did x. that is you know i can't be mad at my mother what can she do you know let me make make it make your future better don't don't look beyond the pat i don't look at a child we as a bad thing and i and of other youth in raven's age group who are planning to

contract in h i v. the reaction of people what they going to think of the. the stigma that's the main one i think of the stigma that's why a lot of young kids escape to get tested maybe on probable that they discussed being on stuff like that but i'm talking as they young because i'm still in the young generation that you know it that's the that's what the big al biggest problem is that you know people accepting us and i missed that my. pretty free. free. free. free. free. free blog. for your media. free media our t.v. dot com.

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a report. let me let me let me ask you a question. here. is what we have in the bank we have our knives out. but if you feel the sleep it's a bad thing there's a gap here it is we're being talked about. asking americans have having me to me to spot some of the family in the church to address whatever crisis they are going through because the church was the place that sent us historically the collets the church was the place of you had the illness the

chance of going come and support you you know of someone died and you can depend on the church to come and bring the food you know to me come in bring whatever you need even help you to bury your loved ones you know i mean that was the church if you would have you didn't have the chance of going to come in and fill that gap for you. but when they'd first hit black america most family members were caught off guard those two points those points of comfort were not quite there you know thank god some people had great family support. most families back then did not know what he was on they were afraid you know there was not a lot of information there was a lot of myths so we have that myth that it's not part of me i'm not gay i'm not a lesbian oh i'm a lesbian i can't catch it. i'm not in that age group i can't catch it yes it is

it's it's it's in the house many victims of a child were shunned by close family members and when they turned to the church to head the stigma that initially applied to. anybody willing to come forward with. this actually by religious leaders the church you know was caught up in this is a homosexual disease and you know it's you know again you know going to hail and wind up going to you know we're not going to address that that he was so important for the black church to be for the truth. because of the black church did not want to accept it because you are gay or begins each i mean in had a bigger sort of impact in that if you were not then allowed to potentially good it has been known effective jeter but if it did your mother your onto your brothers your sisters because they then also felt like maybe they were part of that being

the child so in the beginning it's a gay white man's disease black folks it's not out issue really when people were dying left and right by nineteen eighty six african-americans accounted for twenty five percent of those infected with hiv causes for this rapid increase were disproportionately lol response of the national state and local levels adding to these external factors was the growing stigma surrounding this infection. when somebody. and that's when you can see as each and that person essentially says in essence. silence by family members and local clergy bound by fears and denial only strengthened the growing prejudice against those infected with hiv every black family has someone who has been addicted to drugs or alcohol as someone who was gay you know so that wasn't

a new phenomenon what was new was that we were not about to talk about it in public i had a minister to said to me it's a real reverend cheek. homosexuality i don't have that problem in my church has had a problem. i said how because the church we think we see twelve hundred people has a soul and twelve hundred people and easily to say that ten percent of the population this gay and lesbian and you don't see anybody so you don't have anybody in your choir you don't have anybody on your deacon board on your ministerial staff on you in your administrative office no way you don't see no one gay and as i understand homosexuality and drug addiction are two taboos that were well entrenched within the black family but almost never openly discussed. aids in the black family added one more to subject to be consciously ignored many times i would preach a sermon call for family and that would have the family come and say you cannot say

that he was gay or you cannot say that he died of aids you can say of cancer but they can you can say he died of aids are you kidding me all of the whole community no. so the way i used to give a round that was i would have remarks come first and of course people would get up and say well i knew when he first got infected then the family would have never said a word it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it . we explored internal factors that led to the early growth in the aids epidemic in black america while doing so we learned that silence fear and denial so evident back then as undergone little more than cosmetic changes thirty one hours later.

the low blood. and i have quite a few friends that were raised in a church you know i had lots in the church service and then so quite a few churches visiting but it was something that i just didn't see. in my spirit and still to come to. enjoy the music but a lot of the other rituals just didn't sink in as i became older and found all the way islam was the only way that i knew one place that i knew to go back to what i sometimes fearlessly something a little more religiously grounding. from the same today isn't anything in the koran actually says of homosexuality being gay this is just a lot of the other. laws govern by the sharia laws you know things that were not

a part of the some of what the profit were practice. where it goes into homosexuality. it being missing. the point i first found out i was positive. like i said i really didn't think it would be possible i was doing a student teaching and i want all my lunch break to get my answers to get the results. and when i walked out of it and he said i was positive it was like i was livin in a fog. but i was in a daze. and i went back to work like nothing had ever happened but it did it devastate i didn't know where to turn to talk to. how to tell family. i was lost. it was my mother father and we were

any kitchen. and my husband says oh hi how are you what's going on and they say nothing you know i had him with me there as well when it's all me you know and he's you guys to this is what i'm involved with in my mother was cooking we came in he said he wanted to talk and he came in and my husband came in. he told us he had something to say to us and i told that i was a positive this is who i'm in a relationship with a mother started crying and my father being the man he is ask me so what does mean you lost our dresses and they're bringing you the little he said out that they said mother was going out and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know that put a big strain on the relationship. is different it's better than it was there isn't a whole lot of conversation or close to none conversation about my sexuality me

being gay or maybe in a positive. washington d.c. carries the distinction of being ground zero for having the highest h.i.v. infection rate in america all of d.c. has an epidemic because there are unusual consolation as not being a state not even be in city where a cut out all of d.c. is that a number epidemic level but d.c. is not so unique when compared to other major cities across the nation if you compare metro d.c. that is diminished did the disk of columbia and its suburbs metro d.c. with metro philadelphia metro chicago metro miami were about the same there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives

city d.c. is one of those twelve cities. we spoke to medical professionals concerning the disproportionate rise of hiv aids in the black community. forty five to fifty percent of our community be done with the disease and we know how to prevent it by the way african-americans are more likely to get tested an ethnic group more likely to get to know we get tested we always go for the results but we always don't get into care particularly in rural. remote areas we tend to have a physician or a clinician who has graduated from school or from college you know ten fifteen years ago when i had to cheat persons or interview positive because it was all you remember the infectious disease physicians who treated so they still don't treat and they don't know and they're not willing to. what is the level of hiv training provided for medical professionals the majority of the local hospitals and doctors

offices within the district of columbia i think staff physicians nurses ancillary personnel understand that this is not a disease of casual contact so that you go in the hospitals now you don't see red bags outside of the door you don't see signs up there of isolation just because a person is positive you may see it up there for a host of other reasons but not for being impossible. it would seem that this heightened awareness of medical professionals would lead to earlier detection of new age hiv patients six to two percent of patients who actually come into care are diagnosed with aids within a year of being testing positive for hiv let me see that again within a year of a diagnosis of. over sixty two percent of those patients are diagnosed with those patients the majority of them were receiving medical care what it means then is

that the clinicians the physicians physician assistant nurse practitioner advanced practitioners pharmacists dentists did not know. all of the disease or didn't pay attention. of those who can afford medical care it appears that many medical practitioners are not adequately trained in detecting the early signs of hiv or may simply choose not to treat such patients nobody worries about being positive with syphilis and or nobody even thinks twice about most herpes infections but he seems to carry a burden. that we just can't explain. this fear seems to be born in not just the general public but among medical practitioners as well we had i had an opportunity to speak with some young physicians. just finishing up residence and

a group of them were talking with a meeting we were at recently and the us codes is each of you being taught in your in your program and told them said to us you know when we're at the hospital do a t. shirts and these are residents getting ready to go to become full fledged physicians they said you know go to one of windows patient's room that are positive ok you know clinicians clinicians with whom a.t.v. has been around overnight. and we were stunned when one young woman talked about being in the clinic and the patient was each of you some cookies and it should be. going to another of the police went in front of us said to her did you eat those and it will be thousands of cookies. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big

picture. oh no.