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Why Do Many People Blame The Other Person For Infecting Them With HIV, When We Are Responsible For Protecting Ourselves From Contacting HIV?

A myHIVteam Member asked a question 💭
Phoenix, AZ

Each person are responsible for our own bodies so to only blame the other person for contacting HIV is ourselves. We made the choice of not using a condom or not take the time to use a condom correctly. Unless you were forced against your will through a drugs placed in our drink without your knowledge, raped, forced with a weapon, held down by other people or knocked on unconscious you are able to make the decision not to have sex with someone.

April 16, 2017 (edited)
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A myHIVteam Member

Some people to this day didn't get it from sex, or being raped. Since 2008 over 25,000 people got hiv from a doctor or dentist who did not practice proper equipment cleaning, and reused that equipment on other people thus infecting them.

June 11, 2017
A myHIVteam Member

You can't forgive, but you don't forget. 😁 ❤️

May 12, 2017
A myHIVteam Member

I'm in agreement with you. All of us are responsible for our own sexual health.

April 25, 2017
A myHIVteam Member

I got it from my (now late) husband. He had had a vasectomy, so we didn't need protection...boy was I wrong!! I do blame him. He didn't tell me he had it before he took his life. I got VERY ill and it was a year and a half before I got tested and found out I was positive... See why I blame him?

April 21, 2017
A myHIVteam Member

Hard to say since I became infected from being raped. Always practiced safe sex, then bam. Raped and infected.

May 31, 2017

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