AIDS/HIV 2001

It is entirely conceivable that I might have contracted AIDS long enough ago that I would now most certainly be dead and my weblog, my theses, my bookstore and Dinah in her 30's would never have been known by anyone. Most of my friends have very close friends, family members or lovers about whom they wonder what might have been were it not for AIDS. I've been very lucky so far, but that may well change. As of December 2000, 36 million people have AIDS or are HIV positive and the numbers aren't decreasing.

Please help turn that around by sharing your compassion, donating time or money, and, probably most importantly, by supporting efforts to educate people about the two simple things they can do to prevent this terrible disease:

don't share needles and don't practice unsafe sex.

That's it.
It's really that simple.

Pretending people won't take illegal drugs or have sex doesn't do the trick; it takes needle exchanges, free condoms, drug recovery programs and anonymous clinics. Once we get those first two things commonly understood and practiced, then we can start working on the next two: respect yourself and respect your sexual partners. I fear those will be the harder lessons to teach, but the fruit they will bear will be a wonderful thing for the human race.

Each year I honor Worlds AIDS Day by participating in A Day With(out) Weblogs. I use this occasion to remind myself and visitors to my website about the creative voices which have been silenced by unnecessary death. DWW1 (1999), DWW2 (2000)

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AIDS/HIV

It is entirely conceivable that I might have contracted AIDS long enough ago that I would now most certainly be dead and my weblog, my theses, my bookstore and Dinah in her 30's would never have been known by anyone. Most of my friends have very close friends, family members or lovers about whom they wonder what might have been were it not for AIDS. I've been very lucky so far, but that may well change. As of December 2000, 36 million people have AIDS or are HIV positive and the numbers aren't decreasing.

Please help turn that around by sharing your compassion, donating time or money, and, probably most importantly, by supporting efforts to educate people about the two simple things they can do to prevent this terrible disease:

don't share needles and don't practice unsafe sex.

That's it.
It's really that simple.

Pretending people won't take illegal drugs or have sex doesn't do the trick; it takes needle exchanges, free condoms, drug recovery programs and anonymous clinics. Once we get those first two things commonly understood and practiced, then we can start working on the next two: respect yourself and respect your sexual partners. I fear those will be the harder lessons to teach, but the fruit they will bear will be a wonderful thing for the human race.

Each year I honor Worlds AIDS Day by participating in A Day With(out) Weblogs. I use this occasion to remind myself and visitors to my website about the creative voices which have been silenced by unnecessary death. DWW1 (1999), DWW2 (2000)

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