Vocational Trade. Dial 1- 8. 00/AIDSNYCEvery Monday and Wednesday morning, promptly at 1. I leave behindmy daily life and turn to volunteering as an AIDS Hotline counselor at New York. City’s GMHC [Gay Men’s Health Crisis], the nation’s largest social serviceagency for AIDS. For the next four hours, my co- volunteers and I sit in front of a bank ofconstantly- ringing telephones, talking to men, women, and teens who call infrom across the nation with urgent questions about AIDS, the ravaging diseasethat has left 1. After almost 2. 0 years, a whole generation, families are still facing theheartache of tending the sick, while scientists continue to be confounded bythis stubborn, ravaging virus. Although the federal government currently spends$4 billion per year on.

AIDS research, and $1. Small wonder that the GMHC AIDS Hotline,the nation’s first, is flooded with more than 4. Listening to callers 8 hours each week, I often think the Hotline is actually adirect link to the soul of callers–an anonymous forum that allows each toreveal secrets and fears that they might otherwise never discuss with anyone.

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A Morning in May. This is the way it began: “Good morning, GMHC AIDS Hotline, can I helpyou?”“Yes…I have a question…[hesitantly] My son…he’s 2. HIV- positive [voice breaking] I’m…. And I need somehelp…someone to talk to…”“Of course…. It’s terrible. He told me two nights ago…. I don’twant him to die.

He’s my only child…. Her son, she explains, had sometimes neglected using condoms, convincedhe wouldn’t contract HIV infection from his female partners.“How could he be so stupid?” she now asks angrily. Why didn’t he knowhow to protect himself? I don’t understand. What am I going to do?”We talk for 3. I notice I’mbarely breathing.

The distraught woman’s anguish is palpable. Her situation isevery mother’s worst nightmare. The life of her child is in jeopardy and shefeels helpless and afraid.

I can’t imagine anything worse. During the call, I do my best to employ the GMHC Hotline protocol of “activelistening,” which involves using silence, empathy and gentle probing withopen- ended questions. I’m also having my own emotional reaction to the panicin her voice, and I’m worried about whether I’m doing enough. Toward the end of the clal, when she exclaims: “I don’t want my baby todie,” my heart plummets: “I know…. I understand that, but there is hope,” I tellher.

I find myself on the verge of tears. The Bad News. This mother’s story is too common. According to the Centers for Disease. Control in Atlanta, Ga., 4.

Americans (half of them under 2. AIDS virus each year. Unprotected sex and intravenous druguse remain the principal modes of   transmission .“Teenagers,” notes AIDS activist Elizabeth Taylor, “are being very hard hit.”She refers to the three million adolescents who contract a sexually- transmitteddisease annually.“Heterosexual teenage football players who are healthy and drink milk canget it too!” says the 7. AIDS research. “But teens are very ignorant and feel invincible.

Theybelieve there’s an invisible shield protecting them from the virus, when it’sactually aimed right at them.”Taylor believes in addressing the problem head- on: “Tell your teenage son: ‘Maybe a condom doesn’t feel as good, but if it saves your life, it’s better thanbeing six feet under.’ Intelligence must replace random sex.”Although a new generation of AIDS- fighting medications is prolonging thelives of thousands, nearly half of the 9. Thunderbirds Online Putlocker. HIV in the. U. S. Since the virus was discovered in l. Americans have died from AIDS- related complications, and the disease has left.

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Who Calls a Hotline? Not long ago I took a call from a 1. I ask him if there’s a school counselor or relativehe might talk to, but he says he’s too afraid to confide in anyone. Being a teenager is hard enough, I thought, without the pressure ofkeeping this kind of secret. I felt angry and saddened that this child can’tcomfortably discuss his feelings with his own parents. I encourage him to call the Gay Community Center Youth Program in anearby city. In the meantime, I assured him that he could call our Hotlineanytime, that we’d be there for him.

This call was typical of the many we get from teenagers,whispering fromtheir parents’ homes, confiding their blossoming sexual feelings and concerns. Our Hotline also receives calls from married men who phone from their offices,worried about extramarital sexual encounters; gay men suffering side effectsfrom medications; mothers caring for a sick child or grieving for one lost to. AIDS; even health care professionals themselves confused and requiringburnout support. One particular morning, I’m struck by the number of single women whoturn to our hotline for help.

At 1. 0: 1. 5 a. m. At first we used condoms and I was taking the pill to avoid pregnancy,” shesays. But after her partner assured her he was HIV- negative, the couple beganhaving unprotected sex. A few months into the relationship, she recounts, hisbehavior became “unpredictable,” until he finally admitted he was sleeping withother women and was addicted to heroin.

Now she has to withstand the“terror” of waiting 3 months before getting an HIV antibody test. To help hercope, I give her the names of three terapists in her area. The call lasts 4.

At 1. 1: 1. 5 a. m. I take a call from a woman who is breathing heavily. She says that four months earlier she’d had a brief affair with a limousinedriver, “not out of passion, but because I felt lonely. This was so totally unlikeme,” she continues. I come from a traditional Orthodox Jewish family…”Although they used condoms, and she has since tested negative for HIV, shefeels deeply ashamed, and has stopped seeing him. And because she has botha persistent vaginal yeast infection and a rash on her neck, she’s convinced shemust be infected by HIV. Although rashes, high fever, swollen lymph glands, heavy night sweats, sorethroat, or other flu- like symptoms may indicate HIV, they can just as easilyaccompany the common cold or flu, or other type of infection.

I encourage herto seek medical help and counseling, but the calls ends on a down note. Imust have it [AIDS],” she moans. I’m exasperated because it doesn’t soundthat way to me, yet I can’t get through to her. Watch My All American Mediafire there. The call lasts 2. It’s 1. 1. 3. 8 a. At firstvery businesslike, she calmly takes down all the information. I ask her whyshe’s considering a test.

Total silence. Then she begins to cry: “I…. Watch Case Depart Online Forbes. I can’ttalk…. I’m sorry…you see, I have swollen lymph glands….[crying]….