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 that you know we had to have my life was famous and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken with him 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 s.t.d. is 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 is definitely like i already already you know i was like ok if i get it i'm like yeah. you know i

want to get. 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. you know you tell me i had it i had a long. who want out one i would have buying. so many drugs to be to take my calls to name. and i had a name and at one time i had to get stats like three times a week. just like. i would think. that be a neighbor and if you only should you know everything everything is heavy you know you're lazy have you very weak and you still gotta get me to get it out to get these three shots a week yeah. i think. i had three blood transfusions

because of the name. so that 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 and you know everybody by 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 a steady. 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 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 heterosexual black men are a rising tide in contributing to the growth of this deadly virus thirteen 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 screwing 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 for me i thank him and for whatever reason that god use him in 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. have locked myself into this anger you know look what he did to me. when my parents found out entirely positive i was six years old and. it was on my doctor's appointment and you know how they have a play room for kids no one waiting for the doctor and i was in the play room

whilst playing and they took one mom out the play room so i guess those who are paying for her to 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 full 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 hide just come in and the doctors is like you know your mom want to talk serious i'm like ok and she just told me she just my birthday wow 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 me an aids so that was my biggest fear that i thought i was going to die they both advance 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 for ever 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 and i had told my arm friend i say 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 pull my friend away from me and put up a glows around the classroom and do sort of back to her knowing that i was a child. as if i couldn't go on in crashes to put garbage bags around me like if i had to use the back to use the bathroom or myself choose to take my school lunch away from me and all the fact that me being a child be positive she was abused she was abused by i was school system other children started harassing rave and she even got older we to know that adults

treated this child when the cheated 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 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. 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 we've grown 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 at 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 back to disney world i went on his 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 to make 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 saying man talk to old 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 openly just like well how about if i send you to disney world or something and hope i didn't move on a moment they always wanted to go there and i wish the sun opus sent 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 he was a spike 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 gladstone 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 auguring and make isis thank it really matter had it was just it was a lot to me at that i say my teenage years was like my. cancer isn't right sixteen seventeen i had to make realize like you know even. your mom didn't do something which 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 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 the skid think it tested me on probably that they discuss going on stuff like that but i'm talking as they young because i'm still in the young generation that you know that that's the that's what the big biggest problem is that you know people accepting us and the state money. wealthy british soil.

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the americans have have a unique to me to spot some of the family and 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 choice 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 maids 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 not a myth 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 h i v and aids were shunned by close

family members and when they turned to the church to head the heavy stigma that initially applied to. anybody to come forward. it would be attacked as 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 hell and we're not 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 are gay or begins each i mean instead of a bigger sort of impact in that if you're 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 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 low response at the national state and local levels adding to these external factors was the growing stigma surrounding this infection. unlike many other communities in somebody's. an african-american has each and that person is sent to the sisters in the sense into. silence by family members and local clergy bound by fears and denial only strengthen 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 i said a problem. i said how because the church we think we see twelve hundred people as 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 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 out 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 the church you know i had lots in search service . then so quite a few churches visiting but it was something that i just didn't see. in my spirit and still totally come to. enjoy the music but a lot of the other rituals just didn't sink in and as i became older and found all way islam was the only way that i knew in the new place that i needed to go back to what i needed something as fearlessly something a little more religiously grounding. from mine the same day it isn't anything in the koran actually says it all homosexuality being gay it's just a lot of the other. laws govern by the sharia laws you know things that were not

a part of the sort 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 today 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 at home you know i need 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 it's own that i was a positive this is why i'm in a relationship with a mother started crying and my father being the man he is asked me so what does that mean you want dresses and they bring you little 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 meet me 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 out of them an 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 disco 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 in any other ethnic group more likely to get to get tested with the results but we always don't get into care particularly in rural graphical 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 never had to cheat persons or interview positive because it was all you remember the infectious disease physicians were 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. you may see it up there for a host of other reasons but not for being possible. it would seem that this heightened awareness of medical professionals would lead to earlier detection of new age hiv patients sixty 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 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 practice nurse pharmacists dentist did not know the clinical manifestations 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 and 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 at the meeting we were at recently and the us codes is each of you being taught in your in your program it's twelve and 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 to sit in a little one of windows patient's room that are positive ok no clinicians clinicians with whom hiv has been a room over there and. then we were stunned when one young woman talked about being in the clinic. and a patient was each of you visited some cookies and it should be. going to another of the police went in front of us said to her did you get to be positive could use .

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