December 2008
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WatchThe DM Productions team created this video in which kids from Project Kindle explain some challenges they face because of HIV/AIDS.
Check out the new videos tab at the top and look out for more DM/Project Kindle videos soon!
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“My wish for ’09 is to have the strength to get over my fear and reach out to...”
– Sue, one of our Project Kindle ambassadors, responding to our weekly Q&A. Read more from the kids of Project Kindle this week here.
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Q&A with Sue
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: Ever since I learned about my mom having HIV I have also learned to cover it up. Hide it. Not to get too close to others. Cover myself. I didn’t want to tell my friends because I didn’t want them to treat us different. It’s still hard, even after being more comfortable with talking about it. I still don’t tell. It’s...
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Q&A with Karmen
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: Things have been different for me because people don’t accept HIV/AIDS a lot so they treat you bad. Sometimes though, if they do get it, they treat you different in a good way. Like I told my friend and she started acting overly friendly. She was like worried that I would die out of no where.
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Q&A with Jasmine
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: My life is challenging because I have to take nasty medicine everyday. It is hard trying to remember to take them. I have to take TWELVE pills day. No fun.
Q: If you could wish for anything in the world, what is your wish for 2009?
A: My wish for ’09 is that I could go back to Camp Kindle to celebrate the New Year!
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Q&A with Jalah
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: It doesn’t seem like anything has been challenging or different in my life because of HIV/AIDS……because no one knows that I have it. If other people knew they would think I was contagious and wouldn’t talk to me.
Q: If you could wish for anything in the world, what is your wish for 2009?
A: My wish for ’09 is that...
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Q&A with Dylan
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: I worry about how my brother is doing. I haven’t seen him in a long time and I wonder day by day how his health is. I wonder if he is taking his meds. I wonder how long he’ll be healthy. I worry….a lot.
Q: If you could wish for anything in the world, what is your wish for 2009?
A: I wish for world peace….j/k…… I...
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Q&A with D-Man
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: Secrets, that’s a challenge. Keeping secrets from my friends. Also, I worry because I want to have a family one day. I don’t want to infect my wife and I don’t want my kids someday to get it.
Q: If you could wish for anything in the world, what is your wish for 2009?
A: My wish for ’09 is for everyone to have...
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Q&A with Courtney
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: HIV/AIDS has made my life more challenging because I have to help my mom and brother take their meds. I worry and want to make sure they do. I also worry about my family not waking up to see tomorrow. One good thing though, if HIV/AIDS wasn’t in my life I wouldn’t get to go to Camp Kindle.
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Q&A with Brryan
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: There are two main difficulties that I have had to face in my life; 1) physical and 2) mental challenges. In the beginning most of the difficulties I experienced were just the physical symptoms of the disease and the medicine. I would get so sick I couldn’t get out of bed. I had terrible side effects from the...
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Q&A with Aries
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: My life is different because of the challenging people in it who are stupid about HIV/AIDS. They say stuff and they ain’t educated and I have to correct them. I gotta tell ‘em the truth. I do feel a lot more comfortable now talking about it and telling people the truth about it.
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Q&A with Bernard
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS?
A: Taking meds is a challenge. Also, HIV keeps me from doing fun things sometimes. I have not been able to play a lot of sports because I get made fun of or excluded.
Q: If you could wish for anything in the world, what is your wish for 2009? A: My wish for ’09 is to get to have fun.
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Q&A with Ally
Q: What are some challenges or differences in your life because of HIV/AIDS? A: I have a lot of fear. Fear of my friends finding out because they wouldn’t take it the right way. When I am with my friends, I can’t every really be totally honest with them. I also have a lot of fear not knowing if my mom will be okay. Q: If you could wish for anything in the world, what is your wish for 2009? A: My...
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Our Country Is Failing the AIDS Test →
From the Washington Post:
HIV is spread only by blood, sex, and needles and during pregnancy, but within those parameters, people are equally susceptible, regardless of gender, age, color or social status. So when the CDC, in a public policy about-face, recommended in 2006 that doctors offer HIV tests not just to high-risk patients but as part of routine medical care to everyone ages 13 to 64,...
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Aidsism in America →
From the Huffington Post:
Stigma, or aidsism, is a major barrier to HIV prevention, diagnosis, care, and treatment. A national survey conducted last year by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, on HIV stigma in women found that one in five respondents would be uncomfortable even having a close friend who was HIV positive, and 59 percent would be uncomfortable with an HIV-positive woman as a...
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Distorted reality
Distorted map of worldwide HIV prevalence among persons age 15-49.
Distorted map of worldwide public health spending.
By comparing these maps, it’s pretty hard to ignore the fact that resources are not being directed to the places that need the most. The question is, how do we effectively channel those resources and build public/private health partnerships to design HIV/AIDS interventions...