November ends. The winds turn cold.
Hands freeze and its not just the tip of my nose that's turned blue
Somehow, today, the chill has settled deeper
My very insides feel clammy, sick, sluggish...
Reason: it's that time of the year again The First of December... World AIDS Day...
There's going to be a whole lot of stuff floating around on the media tomorrow.. about AIDS about HIV and there's going to be the flurry of celebrity whirls, the usual breast beating and moaning about how this pandemic is stalking more people.
This whole idea of high risk populations... this is the most discriminatory and prejudice instilling notion that's still being touted. For heaven's sake, there are no high risk populations, just high risk behaviour, and high risk practices.
An HIV infection isn't the end of life, a person who is infected with HIV isn't a risk to the general population, the general population is more liable to be dangerous to the positive person... after all, it's we who are roaming around with all the possible infections that could affect him or her!
On this day, what all of us to do is break the silence, and start enabling our friends to live life fully.
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