Aids

Aids The topic I choose for my last journal is HIV/AIDS. Over my life through High school and in my first year of college I have learned about HIV/AIDS in many of my classes. We were taught high-risk behaviors and many ways to prevent it. I was taught all similar material in this course but this all took on a whole new meaning recently. Some of the high-risk behaviors to get HIV/Aids are using IV drugs, Blood transfusions, unprotected anal or vaginal sex. When I was younger hearing things like this made me immediately think “ I can’t get this disease.” I thought to myself “I’m not a drug addict, the hospitals now screen blood very carefully and I don’t have sex yet. Even if I did have sex my boyfriend is clean he couldn’t have this.” This was my attitude for a long time until now. This is why this topic really hit home when we studied it in this course. I realized when we went through the chain of a person having sex that if my partner had a couple previous partners, I was in fact having sex with all of them. In the sense that if one, hiv, aids, sex, life, friends, disease, truly, through, thought, think, real, partners, iv, high-risk, drugs, don’t, behaviors, about, wrong, whole, very, using, until, trouble, topic, took, test, taught, something, said, sad, really, realized, now, never, negative, mine, made, know, hit, he’s, having, happy, good, friend, even, didn’t, critical, course