November/December PA Online Poll Results

Do you plan to do anything special this year in commemoration of World AIDS Day?

Yes=40%

No=60%

• I'll continue my education and progress towards my degree: in studies of pharmacy specializing in infectious disease. I believe this is the best I can contribute toward the fight against HIV/ AIDS and come closer to finding a cure. If not in my lifetime maybe I will have done enough to help the medical community after me to find a cure.  So, no commemorations or anything for me for awhile: not at least until after my schooling.
• Not sure, so I said no.  I dos end letters to congress from one.org, but that's as far as I've gone this year so far.
• Our organization is "planting" 618 red ribbons on a park hillside and walking in honor of those we've lost in our city's holiday parade!
• I plan to attend a memorial service at an organization I know nothing about in order to learn about what they do.
• I, like many others, have this chronic manageable disease! I have lost many friends due to it and the OI's and ignorance. I feel its my way of remembering my lost brothers and sisters world wide!
• We are having a WOLRD AIDS DAY MARCH, and a memorium for Sheri Bratton that was a local HIV/AIDS activist and HIV service worker. We will hold a candle light march through our community and have speakers to talk on the subject of Silence is Death.
• I'm going to attend and volunteer at the Candle Light Vigil in Lake View www.chicagoworldaidsday.com.
• Given that many state legislatures, including Illinois, criminalize the transmission of HIV, there can be serious legal consequences for discussing an HIV-positive status outside of relationships that are considered privileged by the courts, such as the attorney-client and doctor-patient privileges.
• One way I deal with it is to be honest with people, and by telling them right off. It is a way I weed out the people I do not need in my life.
• It takes too much energy to deliberately hide my status. I certainly don't make a point of telling people, but I don't hide it. It's just one less thing to worry about.... did I tell someone or not.