A common one that goes around is the no symptoms=no virus. now, not very many people believe this. If you really need to use a needle/have sex, however,and someone has told you this you may convince yourself.
I am not an IV drug user, or someone who has sex without protection, but I still hear this from people who I would least suspect to be so ignorent...
As far as African myths, I actually don't feel comfortable asserting any specific, although a number of young Kenyans I talked to repeated the above mth...I will let you read the material and draw your own conclusions. I was there a year ago, and some countries are better than others. Read some of the NGO reports: they will curl your toes.
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A common one that goes around is the no symptoms=no virus. now, not very many people believe this. If you really need to use a needle/have sex, however,and someone has told you this you may convince yourself.
I am not an IV drug user, or someone who has sex without protection, but I still hear this from people who I would least suspect to be so ignorent...
As far as African myths, I actually don't feel comfortable asserting any specific, although a number of young Kenyans I talked to repeated the above mth...I will let you read the material and draw your own conclusions. I was there a year ago, and some countries are better than others. Read some of the NGO reports: they will curl your toes.