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First, I want to applaud ABC and the producers of What Would You Do? who recognized that the HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to plague our society with ignorance, discrimination and a stigma which still affects those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Additionally, I want to applaud Danny Logan. This 24 year old, fought back against the stigma and discrimination. This young man used his story, his face to humanize HIV. He used his face and story to speak on behalf of all of us infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
Please allow me to take off all my 'hats' I wear and be blunt and emotional without representing anyone other than myself.
I am fed up! Fed up with the lack of respect and dignity offered to those who are infected. I'm fed up with the having to feel like a second class citizen. I hate having to think that I should not post all of my VOLUNTEER work I do within the HIV/AIDS community on my resume in fear I will be disqualified, I'm fed up with how those infected can't get their medications, PEOPLE these are LIFE SAVING medications. You can't tell me that because these people infected cannot afford these medications that they are not being treated like second class citizens? To think that someone will not shake the hand of another human being because they are ignorant makes me think second class citizen.
Well let me tell you, I'm no second class citizen, I can't afford meds because like MOST people in this world I cannot afford the THOUSANDS of dollars a month for them. This should not make me a second class citizen and it should not make someone not want to shake my hand. Danny I'm glad you did what you did, I'm glad ABC ran the program and showed that this despicable behavior continues. Thank you to the customers who stood up for Danny, what I don't think either of them realized was that not only did they stand up for Danny they stood up for me, and the more than 1.3 million in the US and the millions more round the world infected with HIV/AIDS.
I encourage everyone to watch the episode below forward it off, share your thoughts about it. Don't be silenced that won't help. Speak out - speak out LOUD and join in this fight against HIV/AIDS. (The episode can be found at http://www.whospositive.org/journal/Tom for those who do not see it embeded below) *Also follow me at http://www.facebook.com/thomas.m.donohue
The hats I wear, well I tip each and every one of them to Danny, the customers who stood up to them and those who are ignorant for helping to prove a point that HIV/AIDS stigma & discrimination still happens - 30+ years later.
I agree, That Danny and those that stood up for him have sent a great message.
How ever I do feel that ABC, should have done a follow up on 20/20, and have gone into how the virus is spread. And to tell people about the myths that are out there. And to explain that it is not just a gay disease. It infects and effects everyone.
Yes they call us names, blame us for things they did not happen, and worst of all the think we do not know enough to make the stat
statement that we know are true. Sometimes I just give websites that concur with the information that I just gave them,smile and head to the next challenge of the day, with my head held high, and say I have educated another member of my communty. :)
I have been Hiv-Poz for about 27 years in the first 10 to 13 years the only people you would tell of you Static is your doctor or nurse or someone you were about to sleep with.Now I tell everyone that I have Aids and don,t really bother me as much as it used to.Because many people have known someone in there lives with it.
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I agree, That Danny and those that stood up for him have sent a great message.
How ever I do feel that ABC, should have done a follow up on 20/20, and have gone into how the virus is spread. And to tell people about the myths that are out there. And to explain that it is not just a gay disease. It infects and effects everyone. 
Yes they call us names, blame us for things they did not happen, and worst of all the think we do not know enough to make the stat
I have been Hiv-Poz for about 27 years in the first 10 to 13 years the only people you would tell of you Static is your doctor or nurse or someone you were about to sleep with.Now I tell everyone that I have Aids and don,t really bother me as much as it used to.Because many people have known someone in there lives with it. 
