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I'm right in front of the television right now, watching a special feature on AIDS on Channel [V]. Yeah, today is World AIDS Day. The theme of the feature is "Be Safe, Be Informed, Be Ali[V]e and is hosted by Edison Chen.

It's pretty informative, and they even did an interview with a Malaysian woman tested positive for HIV. Her story was, she had gotten the disease from her husband who had gotten his from sleeping around and yet lied to her, telling her that he got it from blood transfusions. Yeah, she found out herself when she checked his passport one fine day, only to find his passport filled with Thailand immigration chops!

When he passed away, she continued going to the hospital for further checkup (it took three years for the virus to be detected) and when she told her mother-in-law about it, she was automatically blamed for her husband's death! Her mother-in-law had accused her of being the one sleeping around and in a second, she had gone from a wonderful daughter-in-law to a whore! Sad huh? I admire her courage to tell her story on air.

Anyways, let's hope that knowledge on AIDS and HIV will expand and hopefully those who do not have HIV will treat HIV positive patients as how they would treat any normal human being and not treat them as social outcasts, thinking they can be infected by just breathing the same air as them!