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It's better to be safe than sorry: Get tested for AIDS/HIV
Issue date: 12/5/07 Section: Editorial
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The best way to keep yourself safe is to keep yourself informed.
This week is AIDS/HIV Awareness Week. Events throughout the week have been and are taking place on campus to raise awareness and provide information.
However, being aware of AIDS and HIV isn't just a annual weeklong event. This is an issue that should be on everyone's mind throughout their life.
If you've had sex recently with someone who you aren't aware of the past sexual history, then you should go to the doctors and get tested. It's better to find out sooner than later.
This is your life you're putting at risk. Is it really worth waiting to see a health professional?
AIDS really became a household name back in the early 1990s when basketball player Magic Johnson announced that he had it.
So the information has been out there and there's more and more coming out. It's just whether people take the time to look it up and make themselves more aware of it.
Don't be stupid.
Protecting yourself is a way to keep it from happening. It's not hard to contract the virus. Talk to those you have sex with and obviously don't share needles.
And once you get it, it's something that will be with you for the rest of your life.
Now if you've already been diagnosed with AIDS, be upfront with future sex partners. They have a right to know going into the situation. And not informing them is violating that individual.
So make the right decisions and most importantly enlighten yourself.
Not aware of how to become more informed?
The Volunteer Center is distributing informational pamphlets and condoms until Thursday in the lower level of the Bovee University Center.
Speaker Ricardo Bowden will give the keynote address at 7 p.m. Friday in the UC Auditorium.
This week is AIDS/HIV Awareness Week. Events throughout the week have been and are taking place on campus to raise awareness and provide information.
However, being aware of AIDS and HIV isn't just a annual weeklong event. This is an issue that should be on everyone's mind throughout their life.
If you've had sex recently with someone who you aren't aware of the past sexual history, then you should go to the doctors and get tested. It's better to find out sooner than later.
This is your life you're putting at risk. Is it really worth waiting to see a health professional?
AIDS really became a household name back in the early 1990s when basketball player Magic Johnson announced that he had it.
So the information has been out there and there's more and more coming out. It's just whether people take the time to look it up and make themselves more aware of it.
Don't be stupid.
Protecting yourself is a way to keep it from happening. It's not hard to contract the virus. Talk to those you have sex with and obviously don't share needles.
And once you get it, it's something that will be with you for the rest of your life.
Now if you've already been diagnosed with AIDS, be upfront with future sex partners. They have a right to know going into the situation. And not informing them is violating that individual.
So make the right decisions and most importantly enlighten yourself.
Not aware of how to become more informed?
The Volunteer Center is distributing informational pamphlets and condoms until Thursday in the lower level of the Bovee University Center.
Speaker Ricardo Bowden will give the keynote address at 7 p.m. Friday in the UC Auditorium.
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