1. What did you learn about what it is like to live with an AIDS diagnosis?

All I really learned from Bob Skinner is that if you’re a recovering drug addict then it will be easier for you as an HIV/AIDS indivual to take all the medication. I’m not sure if I believe this…
But he did go over how expensive all the medication is, which ranges to 1,000 to 3,000 dollars a month. He also seems very privileged to have been given the opportunity to spread a message about HIV. They sent him to school and everything so that he could teach others about living with AIDS. AIDS is very serious and I guess it shows that your life isn't over and you can still accomplish things.
It nust also be very intense to be told you wont live for 3 months, but then on to live almost 10 years.

3. How do you think Bob’s experience is similar or different from people living around the globe?

Bob is the stereotypical type to be infected with HIV. He is gay and middle aged. When in reality, heterosexual women are the ones with an increase rate of HIV infection. He also was not deprived by any social structure. Women in Africa can’t ask for their husbands to wear a condom. Bob Skinner I’m sure had more authority in the decisions that he made. I don’t find him to be similar to other people living around the world.

4. Bob indicated the HIV is transmitted in rural regions via one particular route. What is that route and what social factors limit prevention for that route of transmission in rural regions?

Risky behaviors like unprotected sex. It can be expensive to have the education and resources to provide a means of contraception. Bob pointed out how important money is in stopping HIV in the United States. He even tried to start a debate about the government spending that goes to HIV relief in Africa should stay in the United States. Education and equal rights play a role in the prevention of HIV. Women can’t always ask for a condom. Or people don’t know about the transmission of HIV from unprotected sex.

5. How does living in a rural region make treating HIV difficult?

Medication again is very expensive. Rural regions are generally not thriving economically. Also, with the high infection rate of HIV it is difficult to treat everyone and to suppress the rate of infection. There are more risky behaviors that occur in rural regions like the nonexistent use of condoms. Hopefully more money will be pumped in rural regions so that the HIV rate can be reduced.