World AIDS Day: Have You Ever Met Someone Who Has AIDS?
The question that we are asking today is this: Have you ever met someone who is HIV positive?
advertisement
HIV-AIDS continues to be a disease that is yet to be eradicated from the world. Till that happens, it remains a huge threat to us humans, thereby deeming it necessary that awareness be spread about the same.
December 1 is observed as World AIDS Day, aiming to unite people to fight against this life-threatening disease.
The question we’re asking is: Have you ever met someone who is HIV positive?
Here are some anecdotes of friends, family and doctors of patients who were HIV positive:
“One Day We Were In Gynaecology O.P.”
Once, an MBBS student was on his rounds in the hospital, when a 21-year-old girl came to see him. She wanted to conceive, she said, but she was also an AIDS patient.
The student felt sympathetic towards the girl, as she had such a deadly disease at such a young age. He discussed the matter with his colleague, and they both concluded that the girl had probably contracted AIDS from her husband.
“Men are such pigs!” thought the student.
Then, he decided to talk to her.
“My Best Friend Died of AIDS in 1985...”
Kat’s best friend, Stephan, was a very “decent” guy. He hadn’t had much experience in sex and he wasn’t looking for any either, as many of their friends were – including Kat.
They shared a relationship where they would “sleep at least two times a week in one bed, often in his tiny bachelor bed, cuddling, (yet) he never had an erection...” Kat went on to say: “We took showers together, we ran around naked, he gave me massages, nothing happened.”
In the 1980s, AIDS was new and people did not know how it was transferred. It was thought that “only people with an ‘unnormal’ sex life got it – prostitutes, homosexuals, junkies, etc.”
Stephan, says Kat, was anything but those things.
He was granted a one-year scholarship in Massachusetts, and to reward himself, he took a two-week vacation in Spain.
When Stephan got his test results, his personality “broke” and he got some form of schizophrenia.
He died a year later.
“He was 31 Years Old With a Wife And Two Kids...”
Kritika Laddha had to examine a patient for her medicine practical exam. As she began her examination she came to know that he was in the army.
He was popular in his village; people were proud of him. He was often called to be the chief guest on certain occasions in the village.
Once, he was in the middle of a terrorist attack, when he got wounded. He survived the bullet shot, but the medical camp he was in did not screen the blood samples that were used for his blood transfusion. And thus, he was infected with the HIV virus.
(Source: Quora)