It's very sad, HIV/AIDS is seen as such a taboo - if it wasn't so un-talked about, more people would be aware and less people will catch it.
The thing that infuriates me most, is I remember in school during Sex Education, HIV was very briefly touched upon, and it was basically taught as something exclusive to the gay community. Youth nowadays are being failed, as it's on an increase in heterosexual people also. In school, we were never taught anything about how it's transmitted, how it's treated etc. Luckily, I have very good parents who taught me all this stuff, so I'm always safe.
I find it scary though, the amount of gay (and straight!) people I here bragging about unprotected one-night stands. Some of these people could have been infected years ago and not even know
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