[Published in Anodis.com: http://anodis.com/nota/17225.asp ]
Today AIDS has ceased to be a chilling ghost that lurked in the darkness of our sheets (or the hotel's back seat or dark rooms, you know), has gradually been losing his face gaunt and affected by lipodystrophy, attacked and killed by Kaposi eventually died. Today we have treatments and medications that are not as aggressive as they were in the years eighties, when the disease appears in our society dictating a sentence safe for most of those infected with the virus now know that living with HIV does not necessarily mean being sick, let alone you will die the day after tomorrow.
We were getting used to being afraid and as a natural human reaction, trivialize the source of our anxiety to get a sigh of relief. Nobody likes to live in fear. The result was that gradually we've played down the risk to life has AIDS, and be specific: not for the quantity but the quality of life.
research laboratories have been responsible for a woman or man with cancer, hepatitis, AIDS or from many other diseases, can achieve good life expectancy, in the same contributing institutions of various types, with programs and public health plans, provides everything needed for patient to stabilize and survive. That's fine, great, compared to what little we had before. And with news like this, also the attitude of people is changing.
is not necessarily that of Mexican society know more about HIV than before, but one thing we have very clear all: not to discriminate against someone because father lives with a particular condition, or because they live infected with something that is not can be transmitted by everyday mechanisms, such as the AIDS virus. People now feel sorry for us that we cache discriminating public, so, at least sometimes we keep our negative attitudes to the private, when almost no one listens. With this situation of political correctness, and does not "much" worth leaving home to queue at a health clinic and get your monthly allocation of antiretrovirals, the rising social acceptance, whether genuine or merely apparent, means that when you live HIV-positive as you can assimilate "easier" that condition in your life.
reference point to say something like this is the poor quality of life he was a man or woman in the eighties and early nineties, when unexpectedly acquired HIV through sexual transmission or blood, and whereas, of course, that you read these lines refer to countries or populations relatively advanced. In an African community, Indigenous or living in extreme poverty, there was not much to do when you know you're infected with a virus like this. Similarly, it is necessary to point out that living with HIV is always a challenge in life, so that no matter how advanced the treatment, it is never that easy to live being HIV positive.
Unless, of course, that treatments consisting of a vaccine or cure. All
evident to even the most inattentive observer, that is changing the way our societies are being associated with HIV no longer live with the fear that moved us in another time, because now AIDS is no longer the strange evil that we knew nothing, and he feared mainly because it was unknown. Today is a daily subject well, we see in advertising and movie theater, all we know someone living with HIV or a celebrity who died of an illness that is complicated by the presence of AIDS and so on. We do not fear, at least not much, and live without fear that's fine. So the new campaigns HIV awareness and speeches need resources other than the propagation of fear for public impact, one no longer clings to hear that if you do this or that you'll die, or suffer eternal torment if you do not act like you. Now the discourse needs to be another, especially in the field of HIV,
because the relationship we have today with AIDS also is another.
In television and other media will give ten thousand arguments as to why you should to avoid getting sick, but how many campaigns have been made about the self? We speak in detail about the death but how about you talk a little about the joys of life?
Indeed it is not live in fear, but do not normalize the risk is the degree to neutralize any preventive behavior: with the arrival of the new century spread sexual practices, such as bareback, which not only grew in popularity, but have helped grow the statistics of HIV infection. In bareback, who maintain a sexual relationship they choose not to use condoms at the time of penetration, the reasons for this preference is very varied, ranging from "with a condom does not feel the same" to "I like to get in the hands of my man, "or" I want my partner to rely completely on me. " It is true that the meeting unprotected sex with a person who is HIV positive will not necessarily result in transmission of virus, but the random chance alone and that happens during unprotected sex is tantamount to bet our quality of life in the shooting of a coin . How many punters know that experts would point to a game like this?
Still, in recent years has spread alarmingly in the United States sexual practice that combines sex parties, secrecy and HIV, but not included in the formula to protected sex, not by forgetting, but by strategy. Come on, think that by definition is a sexual orgy massive that may or may not involve the use of condoms, in orgies, well, there may be those who prefer to only watch, not participate, or who just go to walk around naked. In sex parties where HIV is the guest of honor, however, participants attend strongly to exposure to the transmission of "bug", an insect, which is the nickname that identifies the virus, by an act they call " the gift, or gift. Calls may be in different social networking sites where release date and venue, to them who seek to give away attending the virus and those who want to receive it. Today starts and if any in Mexico.
Some of the recipients of gift say that thanks to "the gift "can keep them a part of their partner (the shift), which in some cases is the one who transmits the virus, others suggest that when you take your blood" bug "your life changes (which is all undeniable lights) are displayed themselves as something other than what they were, with a sense of belonging and identification with other people carriers. Talking to them in an interview through chat rooms, it seems to be talking to people in a deep search of its identity and uncomfortable with themselves. Whatever your idea of \u200b\u200bHIV poses, is that being carriers of the virus have access to social programs, support groups, networks and other spaces to which belong. Somehow, choose to lead his search for an identity to the challenge of living with HIV, finally, confirm them, having HIV is not necessarily sick.
Living with HIV actually does not mean being sick, but it is also true that the quality of life is tremendously compromised. The person living as a carrier or carrier of the virus, you need to take good care of their quality of sleep, eating habits, sexual practices, physical activity and even their moods, ok, it is true that every human being also requires take care of your sleep, sexuality, food, exercise and emotions to have a good quality of life, but when it carries the HIV, which was recommended at a time, now becomes mandatory. No matter which institution is responsible for providing you with resources to stay well, and that organization will offer programs that do not feel alone in your fight against the virus, and finally you yourself who choose or not to leave home and face life, you who carries the virus inside and who chooses or not to continue treatment to keep it or leave.
The existence of AIDS and the possibility of becoming infected with HIV is not something to be taken lightly. It is true that what makes a carrier of the virus to survive, is what anyone would do with himself to be good, but with HIV you have fewer opportunities a mistake, and less time to waste. Working in psychotherapy with people who are HIV-I met people living with HIV have managed to stay well, and incidentally, have been built exemplary lives, is a level of health that I envy: take care of themselves and themselves substantial value in a life and have worked so hard to find "balance" that have become great people, but there is something that they say: what a shame I had to live with the virus to have to realize this.
Finally, no matter what face we give to the AIDS, is not nothing but a disease that can lead to HIV infection and ultimately not so much the way we relate to it, simply change the focus: what matters is the way I relate myself or myself and the value I put my future and my quality of life, how I could face the challenge of living a life with HIV, how it would facilitate my future plans if today I give importance to my welfare?
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