0:00:07.430,0:00:07.759 One of the things I realized quite soon in my diagnosis was that HIV is just another 0:00:07.759,0:00:09.719 virus, and after HIV there will be other viruses. The only thing that makes HIV unique is that 0:00:09.719,0:00:16.369 it raises all the taboos in our culture. HIV raises death and dying, sex and sexuality, 0:00:16.369,0:00:23.019 raises addiction, raises disability and illness, all the things that as a culture and as a 0:00:23.019,0:00:29.670 society we find very difficult to talk about. So it isn't surprising that people are very 0:00:29.670,0:00:36.670 fearful and that people are very unwilling to focus on HIV and to get up to date accurate 0:00:37.149,0:00:38.390 information about HIV.