Certain days will always live in our minds as milestones or turning point I can honestly say I now have one. July 10, 2008 I received conformation that I would no longer be the same after discovering that I was HIV +. June 19, 2008 was a normal heat of the summer day in the south that I decided to go and get my annual HIV / STD test for the year. Never did I imagine, I would be receiving the news of my life. After testing positive on a rapid test, blood was drawn to perform more tests to ensure it wasn’t a false positive. I prayed, prayed and prayed that it was a 'false positive' after what seemed like FOREVER (21days) I was called back in to discussed my results.....Since July, life has been very different. At the mention of HIV in everyday conversation I listen more closely, being that I encounter a lot of persons that just don’t know about the disease. I tell my family members all the time, it is kind of scary to meet 'educated people' that cannot tell you the ways this menace is transmitted.

So what does December 1 mean to me:

 I will never be able to condense WAD down to one day... I think we shouldn't condense it      down either. As long as we have ONE PERSON here in the United States or Timbuktu for that matter that is diagnosed as HIV +, WAD should always be in the forefront of our minds and we should do everything in our capabilities to developed new medical treatments to irradiate HIV/AIDS.