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 says. i did everything possible to get in this position yeah i wanted at you know the window of my life was facing free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken within pain she community cloning kit i think that's why our verse i first fell on top when they told me i didn't believe you know because i had all these s.t.d. is like now. it all way. and you know with my thinking about

it overall way but it didn't go away and stanley's response was good now and then now is definitely like i already already you know i was like ok if i get it i'm going to have you know i want to get our. and i probably did go get had you know i would not think about it because i know i know i know me so i do as leg and we get home and my dad you know you tell me all head on head along. he want to know who won i would of buying. so many drugs a jiffy to take for you to leave my cost me. and i had and you know one time i had to get stats like trees have so we. just like. i don't think. that be a neighborhood if you only should you know everything everything is heavy you know

your legs they have your very weak and you still gotta get you get it out to get these three shots a week yeah honestly i think. i had three blood transfusions because it hit me and. so it out was an experience both in the self and after living with hiv for over thirty years if i tell you my story. is that all of it you gotta go through. and that's why. everybody's body is different. everybody 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 sharon i'm not opposed to. someone then with it 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 have to be worried about this you know this epidemic our investigation reaffirmed that men having sex with men are highly susceptible to contract to 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 take ten 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

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 used him in me as a vehicle to bring this challenge to the world h.i.v.'s here the elephant is in the room as to what i'm doing with that elephant i no longer. have locked myself into this anger you know look what he did to me.

when i parents found out in time we piled it i was six years old and. it was on my doctor's appointment and you know how they have a play room for kids and no one waiting for the doctor and i was in the play roles playing and they took my mom out the play room so i guess there is hope for her to tell me my doctor came out of the room and he came and picked me up on a plane home and when we went into the the room i see my mom and bill of tears so me i'm pulling away from my doctor like mom and still i mean toys equally not i don't know why my mom was crying and she's like most we hired just come in and the doctor's was like you know your mom want to talk serious i'm like ok and she just told me she just like blurted out i guess i just passed so like stand up and how she is birches 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 maids so that was my biggest fear that i thought 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're not this is something that's going that you're going to live with forever i shared with the school that raven having passed and i never expected outcome 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 i had told my i'm friends are saying you know i went to the doctor and my doctor told me that my mom told me 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 class so my do so the fact that her knowing that i was a child. as if i couldn't go on in crash to put garbage bags around me like if i

had to use the back don't use the bathroom or myself choose to take my school lunch away from me although the fact that me being a child be positive she was abused she was abused by our school system other children started harassing rave and she even got older but to know that adults treated this child the way that she did a minute 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 had the monster or they used to just that i would get things to me like this one guy used to have really long hair she cut my hair off one day like i was while i was watching a movie in class and all of a sudden i heard says gold charm and i just want my 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 growing up i just felt like you know this is how my life is going to be and everybody's just

going to make fun of me but everyone did not make fun of her and that the tender age of six trichotomy oprah winfrey and i was a millennium dream at the time that's what made donal's was doing kids that dealing with any type of owners they would send them my 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 arms and like sweetheart i don't care what you have you know on my shoulder i want you to tell me what what do you go through and like i just remember me say in talking to oprah and she was just crying my mother just start crying because man just telling everybody i'm having a child being i'm always sick and i told them i'm done oprah just like well how about if i say new disney world or something and hope i didn't move on and went there i always wanted to go there and i. hope will send me to disney world i

confronted her dad he said to me ain't life ain't life a bit. you know how long i've been living with this he called me and who says mike while 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 says if 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 wired so as raven grew into her teens life with her mom became strained they took thirteen i always tell people i did try taking my life away me my mom started making really arguing like isis i get really mad i had it was just it was a lot to me at that i say my teenage years was like my most of.

my country isn't right sixteen seventeen i had to make realize like you know even. be a mom then do something because you know she didn't know at the time and i had to realize i had to put my lily 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 path i don't look at a child we as a bad thing in my life and of other youth in raven's age group who are planning to contract in h.i.v. . the reaction of people what they're going to think of. the stigma that's the main one i think of the stigma that's why a lot of young kids are scared think it does that mean that they discuss stuff like that but i'm talking as they young because i'm still in the young generation that you know that's the that's where the big al biggest problem is that you know people accepting us and in a statement. i.

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technology innovation all the lives developments from around russia we've got the future covered. the americans have had the two major spot seal of the family in the church to address where they have a 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 you can depend on the choice 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 that chance was going to come in and fill that gap for you. but when they first black america. 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 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 be the state that initially applied to. anybody to come forward with. this racially 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 there for the community because of the black church did not want to accept you because you were gay or because each i mean in had a bigger sort of impact in that if you were not then allowed to potentially good that church 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 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 low response of the national state and local levels adding to

these external factors was the growing stigma surrounding this infection. unlike many other communities when somebody. an african-american has each and that person essentially says the sentence into. 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 the said to me it said rule reverend cheeks. homosexuality i don't have that problem in my church i said a problem. i said how because the church we think we see twelve hundred people has a soul in twelve hundred people and easily does 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 the many times i would preach a sermon call for a 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 doubt 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 and the family would get us out

never said a word as 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 has undergone little more than cosmetic changes thirty one years later. lulu will open . and i have quite a few friends that were raised in a church you know i had lots in a 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 in the new place that i needed to go back to what i needed something spirits leave something a little more religiously grounding. from the same date isn't anything in the koran an ex who says of homosexuality being gay 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 will 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 today and they 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 cation. 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 i was home you know and he's you guys to this is what i'm involved with in a 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 dresses and they bring you you know who he said at the days it was god and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know that put a big strain on our 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 the midst did the disc 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 diagnosed with the disease and we know how to prevent it by the way african-americans are more likely to get tested in any other ethnic

group more likely to get to know we get tested 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 still don't know and they are 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 and you don't see red bags outside of the door you don't see signs up there of isolation just because a person is a 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 hiv over six to 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 practice nurse pharmacists dentist 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 h.i.v. 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 an opportunity to speak with some young physicians. just finishing up residence and a group of them were talking recently and. is being taught in your program and told them said to us you know when we're at the hospital do t. shirts and these are residents getting ready to go to become full fledged physicians one of those patients from the top wasn't ok you know clinicians clinicians with whom you know room all of their life. and we were stunned when one

young woman talked about being in the clinic and the patient was each of you. should be. going to. said to her did you get to meet. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you don't know. welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style.

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