World AIDS Day is Tomorrow.
Remember that this disease is still a serious thing regardless of the drugs that are out to extended life for those infected with HIV.
On some real talk, if you're having sex - regardless of how long you've dealt with some, if you're married, think they're clean, etc. - you're still open to getting AIDS and having your life permanently changed.
PLEASE use protection and get tested for HIV on a regular basis.
This disease affects everyone all over the world, especially Communities of Color drastically - much less if you don't have the income and/or resources for the current medication that is currently out.
And let's not even think about the children who are affected by this - newly born, those sexually abused, etc.
Here are some links below for folks to check out on AIDS, its history & what it is, how to get tested, some searches for locating free testing, etc.
AIDS History - Reading, Pictures & Videos
National (U.S.) HIV Testing Resources (search by location, free testing, different types of tesing, etc.)
World AIDS Day: Putting a Human Face on the Numbers
Black AIDS Institute
World AIDS Campaign
UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Some AIDS Position Papers
AIDS Action Council Statement on World AIDS Day 2007: Leadership Needed for a National Strategy to Stop the AIDS Epidemic
AIDS Around The World - Global Issues
Microscopic Lynching: AIDS and The Black Community
HIV Epidemic in D.C. Black Community
AIDS.org
BET Rap It Up Campaign
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