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World Aids Day: Quilt panels : 2007 Image source : URBAN NYC BLOG

Since the early 80′s HIV/AIDS has taken the lives of men, women, children, regardless of age, race and sexual orientation. In my teens, I worked as an HIV educator with Girls Incorporated’s, Project Prevent, in Lynn, MA. I remember watching the movie “And the Band Played On” with my team. For years, HIV/AIDS was ignored and the government hoped it would go away. We learned when they finally acknowledged it’s existence, it was seen treated as a “gay” disease. They even had another name for it, GRIDS – Gay related Immuno-deficiency syndrome.

When people of all races, genders, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background started getting sick with “GRIDS”, it was obvious that the instututionalized homophobia was unwarranted and hindered containing the disorder.

In a span of one generation, we have witnessed a couple of hundred diagnosed to “more than two million AIDS related deaths reported globally in 2008″ with “two million children under the age of 15 now living with HIV.”

HIV / AIDS cases rates

Image Source:: Center for Disease Control via http://www.avert.org

What can be done to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS?
1) Get tested – Know your HIV status
2) Get your partner tested – Know their HIV status
3) If you have survived a rape attack - Know your HIV status. Report the rapist and press charges.
3) Talk to your children, nieces, nephews, sisters, brothers, cousins about safe sex and the safest of all sex – ABSTINENCE!
4) If you had or are having an affair outside of your relationship / marriage, protect yourself and your family. Know your HIV status.
5) Use a condom – They are safe and with these new ones like Durex Bare and Trojan Ecstasy, you can barely tell it’s there – No excuses.
6) Volunteer an hour of your time to an AIDS Patient, Give them a hug, Ask them to hug you, learn from them and listen to their experience.
7) LOVE AND RESPECT YOURSELF AND WHAT COMES FROM THE EARTH while keeping your future in your mind. We can appreciate our sexuality because between responsible, and caring adults it is one of the greatest gifts from God to share.

The above illustration depicts the chakra system and the large number of secondary chakras, including the complex network of nadis : Source : RickRichards.com

::NOTE – I am standing up for Alternative Medicine for Healthcare. Whether you have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, or not, protect your immune system. Take Organic Coconut Oil w/ Lauric Acid daily as it helps the body boost it’s immune system. Research and support Alternative and Natural Medicine. For some in medicine, disease smells like dirty money, for others disease is treated as a conditioned response to an out of wack vibration, nutricional deficiency, blocked chakra, etc. that costs little money to relieve and restore one to optimal wellness.

Namasté
ASIA LAKAY

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::QUOTE – Source: http://www.worldaidsday.org