Friday, April 2, 2010  If we don't talk about it how will the
stigma ever go away?  HIV isn't something our girls did, it is
something they were born with. After much research and
considerations we have decided to raise our girls with their
condition in the open. We want all to know that HIV isn’t what
it used to be and there is a lot of misinformation out there. We
have done quite a bit of research, talked at length with Carolyn
Twietmeyer at Project Hopeful and met with the Physician Team at
the University of Chicago. We believe that it would been worse
on our girls dealing with all the secrecy in thier lives than
dealing with ignorance. Only when people start talking about HIV
will the ignorance go away. Most of what people know about HIV
comes from the 80’s when we weren’t clear on what we were
dealing with. Here is what we know today: HIV can NOT be spread
through casual/household contact. HIV is NOT spread through
hugging, kissing, shaking hands, sharing toys, sneezing,
coughing, sharing food, sharing d