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"As a Vihsibles association, we fight for the rights of people living with HIV, we can not allow an abandoned and neglected memorial, because in that memorial both those who died and survivors as well as those recently diagnosed are reflected"
A / A of the Hon.
Mayor of the City of Murcia, Mr. José Ballesta:
At the beginning of the 80s, the first cases of a disease that did not have a name but affected excluded groups or at risk of exclusion from society began to be diagnosed, they were given many names such as pink cancer or gay cancer.
Since those moments there have been many people who died.
Many of them died alone, abandoned by their family and friends, with fear.
A few years after the first diagnoses it was named and labeled, it was an infection by a virus that came to be called Human Immunodeficiency Virus and attacked the defense cells of the organism, the CD4, producing the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
1996 arrived and it was the year in which everything changed, what doctors called Antiretroviral Therapy of Great Activity (TARGA) appeared.
With this new therapy they managed to survive and the diagnosis of HIV infection went from being a death sentence to a sentence of social isolation.
Because in HIV issues, progress has been made enormously in medicine, but little in the elimination of social stigma.
Those of us who are diagnosed with HIV today keep carrying a backpack full of prejudices and social stigmas that, even knowing that we will not die from the infection, makes us have a hidden life, with fear of visibility and that our environment knows about our reality .
And that, Mr. Ballesta, is hard.
It is hard, because it makes us go alone to the consultations with our infectious doctors, because we go alone to the analytics, we go alone for our medication with fear to cross with someone who recognizes us and has to lie.
It is hard because if we get bad we start worrying about whether our medication is not working or maybe we are having toxicity for it.
And the worst of all is still social isolation.
Mr. Ballesta, if you have a degree in Medicine and Surgery, I think you will know what I'm talking about.
Well, two days ago we learned that there existed in my city, the city we love, in the garden of the Constitution, a memorial in memory of all those people who died, who stayed on the road, who did not reach power Enjoy medical advances.
A memorial in which all those survivors who have lived a lifetime with HIV can be seen and in which we are also reflected those who have been diagnosed not so long ago.
The situation of this memorial is of total desolation and abandonment, and sincerely Lord Ballesta, we do not believe that we deserve to be apart from being isolated in society, to be forgotten in the memorial.
I urge you, Hon.
Mayor of the City of Murcia, to repair and maintain the value of the Memorial to AIDS victims.
As I urge you to receive us and we can translate our goals and purposes.
For those who were and for who we are, always in memory.
Vihsibles Association
Source: Asociación Vihsibles
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