Living With Aids

This week I helped out with lobby duties. Aside from tidying up and making sure potential clients would feel comfortable with the environment, I helped to distribute informational packets.
One booklet in particular grabbed my attention: "Living With AIDS". The booklet outlined a kind of "Getting Started" guide to living a fairly normal life with AIDS under treatment. The MCC itself offers its own counseling services for living with AIDS, but it was nice to see such a fairly comprehensive guide available before counseling.
A different magazine outlined current research into treating AIDS as well as hopes of methods for curing it. One particularly interesting article described the "German Patient" that was essentially cured of AIDS by having a bone marrow transplant from an individual genetically resistant/immune to AIDS.
Little tidbits of news like that, readily available, no doubt improve or maintain the morale of patients that desperately need good news to hold on to the will to keep going.

I felt slightly guilty about taking one of the packets when I clearly do not need it; however, next time I will ask if I can take one home temporarily.

As this month has been obnoxiously busy, I have not been able to make any progress on finding a good anonymous chat service. I will be able to resume research in the coming weeks.