25 year old Jean Jacques of the eastern side of the Democratic Rebublic of Congo talks about his case with AIDS/HIV and how it has infected him and his two children in the last year of his life. He talks about the affects on his body caused from the disease which includes blocking of the ears, dizziness, and vomiting. His story is a very sad story. He had aspired to do something big with his life one day but he said the disease caused him to give up on all hopes and dreams. In the video he uses the expression "What's the point when you know you only have so long to live?" AIDS has done much more to this person then deteriate his outside being. It's crushed any hope or dream he has ever had. He's waiting for the day he dies. His family is poor and so isn't his country so there's nothing he can do to try and get healthier so he's left to die. This interview was meant to target everyone in the world by posting it on youtube. It's objective is to show people all over the world what these people are going through and suffering from.
This little boy names Collins lost his father at a very young age due to AIDS. Because of this tragedy him and his mom (Agnes) were left with nothing and had no choice but to move away from the house they lived in to another house that had no running water or electricity. Now his mom sells AID ribbons on the street to make a living for herself and her 8 year old son. She also takes in orphan children who have had their parents pass away due to AIDS. Collins says now that nothing scares him. He's had to overcome the biggest epidemic of his life, and is still powering through.
In his interview with faze magazine he said...
"I don’t remember very much about when my father died. I was quite small, and you don’t always remember what happens to you when you’re small. I think he suffered from bad headaches, and also he ran out of blood. When he was well, he was very kind to me and would let me ride on his shoulders, or just let me sit beside him while he talked to other men. He was a soldier. He was very strong, when he wasn’t sick. I’d like to be a soldier, too. My mother says the older I get, the more I look like him. My mother says he died of AIDS, so she tries to stop other people getting AIDS."
"Nothing scares me. I’m very brave. I feel bravest when I’m with my friends."
http://www.fazeteen.com/fall2005/aidsafrica2.htm?db8f02b0
In his interview with faze magazine he said...
"I don’t remember very much about when my father died. I was quite small, and you don’t always remember what happens to you when you’re small. I think he suffered from bad headaches, and also he ran out of blood. When he was well, he was very kind to me and would let me ride on his shoulders, or just let me sit beside him while he talked to other men. He was a soldier. He was very strong, when he wasn’t sick. I’d like to be a soldier, too. My mother says the older I get, the more I look like him. My mother says he died of AIDS, so she tries to stop other people getting AIDS."
"Nothing scares me. I’m very brave. I feel bravest when I’m with my friends."
http://www.fazeteen.com/fall2005/aidsafrica2.htm?db8f02b0
Gloria Raletsemo lives in South Africa and has been living with AIDS for 9 years now. She was first diagnosed when she was a blood donor. Coming out to her family about it was the hardest thing she's ever had to do. They treated her like she wasn't human. They had actually questioned if she was a human being. She had many boyfriends growing up, but never knew how to have protected sex because she never recieved the education about HIV/AIDS and how it's spread. Her boyfriends always assumed she was unloyal in the relationships because they would become infected from her and assumed she had gotten it from some other guy outside of the relationship when in reality she had it all along, she just didn't know how to stop spreading it. She had two children. One being a miscarraige and the other died of three months in her arms. She was then admitted into a hospital because she was so sick from it.
During her interview with Woman Alive she said..
"Thereafter, I got sick and was taken to hospital. With a temperature of 40º C. (104 degrees Fahrenheit), a high heart rate, I was admitted. At hospital, I was so upset that I could not even recall when I arrived, or what day it was. I was not given anything: no pills, medicine, or injection. I lost the ability to walk, as if I had polio. Then one of the doctors made a silly joke to me saying, "Isn't it nice to have food in bed, and clean clothes?", as if I was there for food not medication. I told them I was not sick, I just needed customary care. The hospital tried to detain me because I am infected. This is common for people with HIV in South Africa."
She is now open about her illness and will tell anyone that asks her that she is HIV positive. She has came to the point of this disease is a part of her and needs to accept it which she has and has moved on from the past.
http://www.fazeteen.com/fall2005/aidsafrica2.htm?db8f02b0
During her interview with Woman Alive she said..
"Thereafter, I got sick and was taken to hospital. With a temperature of 40º C. (104 degrees Fahrenheit), a high heart rate, I was admitted. At hospital, I was so upset that I could not even recall when I arrived, or what day it was. I was not given anything: no pills, medicine, or injection. I lost the ability to walk, as if I had polio. Then one of the doctors made a silly joke to me saying, "Isn't it nice to have food in bed, and clean clothes?", as if I was there for food not medication. I told them I was not sick, I just needed customary care. The hospital tried to detain me because I am infected. This is common for people with HIV in South Africa."
She is now open about her illness and will tell anyone that asks her that she is HIV positive. She has came to the point of this disease is a part of her and needs to accept it which she has and has moved on from the past.
http://www.fazeteen.com/fall2005/aidsafrica2.htm?db8f02b0
Nkoski Johnson was from South Africa and died at age 12 from AIDS. He was a big voice and steady force for children suffering from AIDS. Toward the end of his life, he was fed through a tube. The sickness had attacked his brain and left him with premature dimentia. Even though Nkoski died at such a young age, he left a lasting expression on everyone around him. Even people that didn't live in the same country as him knew who he was. He's the epitomy of courage, and overcoming a huge obstacle.
http://www.fazeteen.com/fall2005/aidsafrica2.htm?db8f02b0
http://www.fazeteen.com/fall2005/aidsafrica2.htm?db8f02b0