In the latest edition of A&U Magazine America's AIDS Magazine I talk to a reader about Sexual Empowerment and PrEP.
1st step in #HIV #prevention is sexual health empowerment • JUST*IN TIME by Justin B.Terry-Smith.
Dear Justin—
I hope you
get to read this because I’m in desperate need of an
answer about HIV
prevention.
I actually
met you years ago when you were the speaker at Howard University for Black AIDS
Awareness. I was a freshman then and I didn’t know a lot about HIV. I think the
reason why is because I didn’t know how to accept the fact that I was gay. When
I finally acknowledged it, I thought about your presentation at Howard
University. It scared me because I didn’t want to be HIV-positive. I had a
boyfriend and we had sex only about twenty-five times. He was very abusive
verbally at first and that really took a toll on my self-esteem; then he became
physically abusive and would throw things at me in the house, punching me,
smacking me, etc. I left him and now I have a new boyfriend.
My new
boyfriend is amazing, but he is also HIV-positive. He doesn’t want to use
condoms but he wants me to go on PrEP; I kinda already know what I want to do
but I really wanted to know what you would do in this situation. Do not worry—I’m
not basing my decision on what you say, but I am going to take it into
consideration.
—A
To see my answer to the reader please click on the link below:
http://www.aumag.org/2016/07/20/justin-time-july-2016/
