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Watching something like Frontline documentary AIDS in Black America always reminds me that I in the minority now, when it comes to HIV and AIDS awareness.
About 5 years ago I went on a trip to South Africa and Zimbabwe. with Hoops4Hope a non-profit that focuses on AIDS/HIV awareness in Africa. When you doing work like that on this side (here in America), you know the stats,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and you helping with fundraisers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and people are donating sneakers but you don really understand the severity of the problems.
It not until you touch-down in the townships like Khayelitsha,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or you working with a group of 200 kids outside of Harare that you fully grasp the kind of conversations one has to have in order to inform 7 and 8 year-olds about AIDS and HIV. It shocking to hear the teachers you working speaking plainly, and frankly about sex and condoms to kids that haven yet reached middle school age.
But then you find out why I walked about 3 hours through the streets Khayelitsha a massive shanty town,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where houses were often made from scraps, and electricity was stolen from power lines to an orphanage that housed children ages 3-5 all HIV positive. We brought a sack of oranges,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], some bananas, and some crackers because, well what else were we supposed to do?
I mean, if you didn know where you were you think it was a your average daycare center: kids running around, laughing, crying,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], playing. When I showed up,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], they clambered to hold my hand,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], or climb me like a gazebo. One of the women taking care of them told me they never seen a white person before. Some touched my face and petted me like I was an exotic pet,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], others ran and hid from me cackling as I them behind doors and under tables.
After we left,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], my friend (a local) said I should come back in a year or two and see who left and it crashed down on top of me. These kids were born with HIV. They didn have access to the kinds of drugs you need to survive. These kids were not going to survive.
For me,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it impossible to shake that moment. That realization that a house full of 10 or 15 kids is most likely gone. You figure out in a hurry that the culture of silence and willful ignorance is what creates and epidemic like HIV. we see that Magic Johnson survived, and after so much publicity in the 90 we assume that everyone know the risks by now. is contracting the virus. Which is terrifying when you consider that it totally preventable.
Every now and then a picture of me with those kids flashes on my screensaver and for a moment the laughter flashes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], too. Both too brief.
About 'The Cycle'
'The Cycle' - msnbc's new show at 3p ET - premiered Monday, June 25th. The Cycle is a "TIS" show - topical - interesting and smart. It is about our world - everything from politics,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the economy,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the media, sports or anything people are talking about. The ensemble cast will drive the show and along with the guests they invite on add a dimension of discussion that will inform and spur the imagination of the viewers.
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