Do you believe?

Winning the battle Last month in one of our Peer Education outreaches sessions in one of the schools that we work with, I got really challenged by one of the youth participating in the session. We were talking about stigma and discrimination attached to HIV as a result of the misconceptions surrounding the illness. While I was busy facilitating this young girl, Shirley about 13 years raised her hand, and said “Mr. Masi, do you really believe in the possibility of having an HIV/AIDS free world?” I tried as much as I could to give her an affirmative answer without being conservative, but still I got really challenged. Then I quickly thought of the words that were said by Melinda Gates at the official opening of the xvi international AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006. She said,

“Ending AIDS will not be the success of one great scientist, one great community worker, or one great leader; it will be an accomplishment of the whole human family working together for one another.”

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