Fear and HIV/AIDS

I am not resistant to HIV infection, are you?
That is the haunting question with which Yvette Lopez of A Taste of Africa ends this amazing post, that tells how –since one of the many incredible campaigns she’s been working on in Somaliland is a campaign to promote HIV/AIDS testing– she thought she ought to go and get tested herself.
Even Yvette, who is, I assume, a very clean-living person, was fearful about the encounter; and she writes very clearly and intimately about some of those fears. I’m sure that people have lots of different kinds of fears around the idea of getting tested for HIV. But I think it’s really important that these fears shouldn’t stand in the way of people getting tested. So it’s good that she wrote about her fears, so that other people can see that they’re not alone in entertaining them.
The program she went to, btw, seems to have been extremely well conducted. It was called “Voluntary Counseling and Testing”. So I guess there was due stress on the counseling part of it, and that seems to have been extremely well done by the Somaliland doctor she went to, Dr. Abdirashid.
Here’s how she ended her post:

    I realized taking the test couldn?t be likened to deciding to hear one?s death sentence, it was more of a decision to live responsibly. In doing so I realized that there was a great need to muster all the courage to confront how a person lived his/her life.
    I will sleep well tonight with the sure thought that I am HIV negative. I am glad I took the test, however, I wonder about the number of people who refuse to make the move; I anguish over the thought that people pass the virus unknowingly and to the thought that HIV/AIDS could be prevented if we take action to know more.
    One thing I learned in the process is that, for us who comfortably know that we do not have the virus does not mean that we are exempted from acquiring it. I am not resistant to HIV infection, are you?

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