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Who's Afraid of AIDS?

Written by: Julia Rojas Vásquez

In this campaign the government has once again confused, ignorant and aggressive media violence symbolic.

The campaign-this time-from the Ministry of Health, attacks against women by establishing a relation between the fact that AIDS is a disease that manifests itself physically with a woman ready for seduction. It also insults people living with HIV, saying it's funny or die of old-and not AIDS, the relationship back on AIDS - deaths, surpassed in recent seasons, thanks to civil society advocacy. Neither

tested for HIV, or the fear of death, even to promote condom use, and lightly, ensure behavior change necessary to manage the risk of acquiring HIV and prevention mechanisms operate. The condom should be used for all penetrative sex and use must be sustained over time, just so the condom does its job. Why the campaign is a serious setback in the fight against AIDS in Chile, violently erasing everything done by civil society to influence policy prevention.

know that the critical element of the epidemic in Chile determined by the absence of sex education, lack of public policy to consider the inherent pleasures displeasures, errors and connected to the sexual pleasures. We also know that the field of sexuality is complex. There remains a symbolic violence, which states that women who require condoms are whores, homosexuals no longer used, that young people fail or purchase.

If we could access the reality of HIV / AIDS, not caricatures, or prejudice, we would know of broken condoms, anal intercourse for fear of social rejection of early pregnancy, abortions illegal, the fear of a young gay man to tell your partner to use condoms, inequalities in the power of choice, various sexual practices, in pairs, in groups, in crowds, where the risk of HIV does not loom as a problem but until you have a positive outcome.

Also, we would know that most women living with HIV today, met all expectations that the mandate required them hetero, married, had only one sexual partner and were generally faithful to that reported. Would know that many of them were sterilized without their consent, because of the ignorance of health workers should protect, not punish. Would know This campaign of insults, because even though they did all that was expected of them, living with HIV and today they are displayed as objects of seduction, for which another should be protected.

AIDS does not stop with an aggressive and repressive that reflects the perverse relationship between state, ignorance and double rigid religious and moral powers that be. How many violent and erratic campaign will have to endure before we are treated as citizens with decision? and not as children under the fear of acquiring an evil threatening Who's Afraid of AIDS? What do you fear this campaign?

know that AIDS is stopped with delivery of early and accurate information, with access to significant information for the creation of effective public policies. AIDS stops with anti-discrimination policies with secular sex education, promoting civil rights and without doubt, strengthen the work shared between civil society and state.

column written for the Centre for Gender and Equity
Source: http://www.nomasviolenciacontramujeres.cl