many in the black community have long memories and today have a clear distrust for government run health agencies part of what drives each of you know community to his or his torkel perspective with disenfranchisement just kiki is very very much aware in a knife in their communities we still have many communities are we're talking a vote and this is a cia conspiracy the government wanted to kill us off so maybe we still have people who still have that mindset people don't like to say. that

a government would make an effort to destroy people but black people have had a history. of tusky syphilis experience that was carried on by the federal government for thirty years one thousand nine hundred to one thousand nine hundred seventy two and people said at that time this is a way to get rid of the black population so that's horrible to have to think about . and that kind of planning that we have an entire museum in washington d.c. called the holocaust memorial museum which ag maintain is the most importantly museum in the united states that everybody should go to that museum because it's not just about the death. six million people. it's about a government of intelligent people deciding to get really. with

a population. they thought was a countryman and. you see adolf hitler use the term tear mitch in german animal people said. as he spoke about the soo much interviewer three. so people who think conspiracy theories conspiracy that not set up a conspiracy is when one segment makes a play and against the interest of another segment and the other segment doesn't know anything about it. and when it comes to matters of mental health and therapy. guy. was my. half. of the time it's. just getting

back on my daughter to. try to. just. haven't done it. and i think until you know even in our medical school curriculum you know. when to we talk about hiv you know important it is clinical into the next generation. is not just ignorance and still associated with a disease that in lack of compassion and to keep. my mouth. by nineteen ninety five h.i.b. 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 this day. after ten years from now. my husband and three year old daughter and maybe age of twenty nine discovered to have. 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 doll spittle and by the time she was about two my husband began to get sick my husband wasn't feeling well he had

a cough we kept going to different doctors kept misdiagnosing him first they said he had allergies they gave him allergy shots then they said he had tb they tested him he's fine it doesn't have to be after about a full year of trying to figure out what was wrong they then said ok your blood count is really no he went into the 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 where that ulcer is 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.

but he had been clean for over ten areas so they didn't see any marks they didn't see anything that they thought was suspicious i guess 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 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 been one telling the truth. because of discrimination because of fear because of and 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 in june of that year. i tested myself and my two other children thank god they were healthy and they've given that 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 h.p.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 the 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 they are fears and discussions of course when i

brought up i am in 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 it 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 our 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 could identify with the guys in the group so i figure i need to talk to some women and see if my only one with this or or or what recognizing that her doctor was seeing other female patients. came up with an

idea i asked my doctor if i could put a flyer in a hole in her 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 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. talk cry prepared for death and all of those things they were doing pretty much a. women's group soon revealed. concerns. from the support group. quickly realise 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 trans. to. children. including. your system. full of shy women.

brave soul. number of. women in her home. in washington d.c. . we are taking care of children. parents. to take care of everybody. and i think. that is. helpful. and support women around the support system. to help them to be able to take care of themselves.

to better understand why age hiv aids are still so persistent in the black community we checked in with you gay and straight after all it is they who will determine the face of the disease in the years to come.

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 realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

show been. there. serving a sentence just like their mother. little ones born in prison. now must paying for the crimes committed by their parents. killed babies on our t.v. . 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 do you catch it what it is what it stands for why not life percentages 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 the way we just learned late about puberty and about the way 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 great men having sex they don't shoot out on paper you know it's very important to know about modern times about a man and woman having sex and the risk of what happens but never a female on a femur i'm going to be too bright and a little bit larger so we know you know we need we need we need to be straight we need to be gave we need to know information is imperative 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 important. my mother was famous for this land you do it in the back you will get a true she said all the time to do mom i'm a very interesting to grasp the idea that you do the right you're going to get a model i'm pretty sure that's not cancer that's how you catch it. ok so she found out 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 just from doing that i do have a big increase my nose and i get credit i find it funny how when parents automatically assume that your child is going to be shared i mean and they kind of force feed 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 sure it is conneally you know taboo to bring into your house and say good 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 headsets with the same sex or opposite sex it's not having sex at all so it doesn't get beyond it just don't have sex and i'm not even windsor you get married type stuff just on sex and you know procreation what 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 it is so now i have six so i'm like ok if i do have sex what will happen i walk upright but what about this on my kids. i don't know what they are i'm young i don't know and weak slim only we don't even 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 and it's pretty normal with my group of friends but when they come some like a child be an online education step s.t.'s on it. that's not their home when it's really awkward but we do talk about it it's not like it's not existed but usually when i hit other people so i'm out issues in life all so minus an itch. on the person not the sauce or. the soul is usually in a negative not inspiring or educational life but with my personal friends my close friends issues are likely to be educating people or we just talk about china for the well we know what's true and something just saying i'm. on my place and on the plane on the press on the plane with myself. to like.

and i say effort. to. keep in mind that with the abundance of information now available about h i v. snub their noses out 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 the 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 use not a concern there is a physical cost of taking drugs to fight hiv take four pills of one for about a pill i take a bactrim pill because to keep infections and stuff away and then i take superior

model rocketry which is helps with the pain in the morning. and so i take that as six o'clock in the morning i wake up thirty to take medication because. i do two hours to recover from second the medication and i go to bed i have my pill container and i bottled water in the mornings when i wake up i just open the pill bottle take the pills drink the water may back down let the side effects go through this nazia. pain tiredness everything that i go through just let it all go through or not that's why our good. data is that. even well treated even with the best drugs someone with age 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 look at how blood pressure what we'd be if i looked at colon cancer where will 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 hold 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 better societal level but also personally trying to deal with it down the why when some of the thirty seconds that i was in london in the mid 1980's and you couldn't turn on the television without seeing the commercial about age having a child be a child be you know and 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 in my view we have not hand at a level of intensity and public out there to keisha. and you still don't have the 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 we go there all the time we have conversations in there about everything you know so you know getting the right information into places like that places of worship getting the correct information that's a beer can can really help kind of hope this disease if they do think that. the more conversation is better you don't necessarily need leadership from the church because you really need is leadership from somebody right so well that happen to have been the case in the community of the response 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 the conversations and in other places or political leaders who didn't maybe could be almost anybody can write maybe somebody has to stand up and take this on it doesn't matter who it is as long as i don't personally care as an as her system. kelly and i think what's going to eventually happen as

far as 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 the cell phone ok because as they see things put the video 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

dependent on drugs to live. with succeeding generation. start the conversation. in the elevated to the school don't seem. this an absolute. necessity. but the. dad. is to see. just like the thirteen colonies. still exists. inside still uses

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