Disclaimer: Today's post is an discussion topic. It is only from my point of view and no ment offence.

I came across a special four page report about AIDS patients on The Straits Time newspapers under the column of Mind Your Body today. After reading the papers, my mind was flooded with thoughts and questions.

If you had a chance to rid the world of AIDS, would you?

It’s a terribly clichéd question, but I’m sure the answer is yes, save for those who believe that AIDS is God’s scourge against gay men. If we had the power to remove the threat of HIV from our lives, I’m sure most of us would.

Unfortunately, we can’t. HIV is here to stay. While we can’t turn back the clock to stop the person who caught it from the monkey, we can stop HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) from spreading, and we can stop the stigmatization of HIV-positive people.

Team Trevvy, 2008

I had to proclaim that I love to read the articles that is posted on Trevvy. They discussed homosexual issues from their point of view which I think that is what the heterosexual world had missed out on. Who else would know better about that (homosexual) circle other them people inside the circle? To me, I feel that general discussion (made by heterosexuals) about this AIDS and homosexual issues are too peripheral.

I seriously felt that the world (mainly represented by the media) is bias and discriminatory. Just take the example of today's special report on AIDS from press, they actually featured a gay male who had gotten hold of the AIDS disease even though he is in a monogamous relationship with his partner for four and a half years and still going.

Even though, they did not openly wrote about him being gay but there are enough clues to deduce that he is not straight. This again brings up the issue on discrimination of the homosexuals and the sicked. I wondered would the article bring out enough punch if they featured a heterosexual guy instead of the homosexual? From the way I see it, they seems to put emphasis on the idea that AIDS is a 'gay disease' that God had created as a punishment. Ironically, earlier in the report it states that two thirds of the AIDS patients are actually heterosexual.

Even though, continuous efforts were made to lift up the stigma that has been placed heavily on AIDS patients, little progress is seen. People are still having phobias of interacting with those HIV positives. Ignorance may be the main cause of the problem. What happened to those sexual educations lessons that was taught in schools? Is it that too much preaching about abstinence from pre-martial sex and the details about AIDS/HIV were left out or is it that the students do not take those 'enrichment' lessons seriously? Actually, it works both ways. I think that people who had taken Biology should get better insights of the disease, hence I do not expect them to ostracize the sicked.

In conclusion, I want to bring up the point that the idea of AIDS is a 'gay disease' came out because people in the past hates gays and use it to deter them from being together. In fact it originates from some horny human who had an intercourse with the chimpanzees. Finally, I had to put emphasis on the point that HIV could not be spread by saliva but through blood.