This article is about "Know Your Status", a student organization at Duke. Their goal is to provide free testing to insure people are aware of their HIV status. Their findings have been unsettling. Over the past 3 years, in a subset of 1,000 students, 55.4 of them exhibited risky behavior; unprotected sex, needle usage, multiple partners, etc..
The big blow here is that over 90% of those tested felt their risks were low to non-existent. Fortunately, Duke's population has a low HIV infection rate & the organization has only diagnosed 1 person as +. What happens when these people move into areas with higher infection rates?
The "It won't happen to me," attitude still prevails. People feel invincible, right up until they're not. Then it's too late. Kudos to "Know Your Status" & hopefully people will be a little more aware.
Cya...
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