Our team believes that in HIV research projects, the biggest stakeholders are HIV-infected and AIDS patients. We collected the public's views on AIDS patients online, and through questionnaires and street interviews, we truly felt that due to the influence of traditional concepts, most people are deliberately avoiding this topic. And most people have discrimination, prejudice and varying degrees of misunderstanding against AIDS patients.
Because of fear and fear, they avoid people living with HIV/AIDS. Or selective discrimination due to different infection routes. Mother-to-child and blood-infected people are more tolerant, and those infected through sexual transmission are discriminated against because they are considered to be caused by improper behavior and chaotic private lives, etc. Therefore, society also puts huge pressure on HIV-infected people. As high school students, we want to To help them, we also need to understand them first.
HIV-infected people attach great importance to their privacy. They do not want people around them to know their physical condition. We faced this problem in the first step of finding HIV-infected people, but we did not give up. We tried to communicate with them through the Internet. They got in touch and joined the HIV-infected community. They were more willing to open up their hearts online, and their communication with HIV-infected people also led our exploration step by step.
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Some infected people are not clear about the side effects of the drugs after receiving the drugs. We will carefully record the problems of the infected people and participate in the "Management of Adverse Reactions of HIV Antiviral Drugs" online sharing meeting organized by Beijing Ditan Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University , learn first, then further share with them and give them the help you can. I am also very grateful to the experts from Beijing Ditan Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University: Dr. Gao Guiju and Dr. Shi Junjie for their sharing.
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We met an HIV-infected person (sharing with the consent of the person concerned), and we became friends anonymously online. She was an underage girl who was accidentally infected due to lack of sexual education knowledge. During the communication, she confided to us that she was faced with pressure from family, friends, society, and the restrictions placed on HIV-infected persons by some universities and workplaces, which made her full of confusion about the future, and she expressed a certain amount of anxiety in her words, which made us realize Not only do we need to solve physical problems, psychological problems are also very important.
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We visited the AIDS and STD Treatment Center of Beijing Ditan Hospital - Beijing Red Ribbon House, and asked Han Jing, the director of the office, about the psychological process of HIV-infected people and how to communicate with patients, as well as how we, as high school students, can practice AIDS prevention. Publicity and popularization. We have established contact with the Beijing Red Ribbon House and will recommend people in need to seek help from them, because our power is far from enough and we need to rely on more professional and core forces to help HIV-infected people.
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The power of one person is small, but when many individuals come together as a collective, they can form a powerful force. Whether we are students, doctors or volunteers, we are in different positions and influence the people around us through our actions. , give care and help to this group, and let love pass on.