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There are two diseases that strike fear in most everyone; "cancer,"
and "AIDS." And that fear is completely rational and
understandable. But in the matter of AIDS, what happens if that
fear takes control of your life? What if you fear the possibility
of being infected with HIV so much you are unable to go on with
your day to day life? When you fear the potential of infection or
fear that you have already been infected even in the face of a
handful of negative HIV tests, you may be suffering from a real
condition called AIDS phobia. After 14 years of caring for people
living with HIV and counseling those who think they have been
infected, I've seen that AIDS phobia is real and have also seen how
people can better manage their fears. Related Information The HIV
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We've come a long way. In the nearly three decades since HIV first
became known, so many things have changed--especially with how
people understand the virus and their reactions to the infection.
It took five years between the first reported AIDS case and a
sitting U.S. president publicly saying the word 'AIDS', but today
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of the poorest nations of the world. Even with all these successes,
still there is a long way to go. World AIDS Day is held annually on
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Day. African Americans are disproportionately affected
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population, they account for more than 49 percent of AIDS cases.
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ages 25 to 34, and the second leading cause of death for African
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