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I shoulda done this a long time ago a lot of excuses why I couldn't go I know these things and these things I must know, cause it's better to know than to not know! "AIDS?" Billy responded. "Isn't that some kind of homosexual or drug-pusher thing?" As he toys with his mocha, Billy remembers thinking, "There's no f-king way I could get something like that. Must have been some big mix-up. Then I thought, Oh shit, I must've used the same toilet seat or touched a door knob that some infected person used. But the doctor went on to say there was no way of getting HIV from that, and then asked if I'd ever had unprotected sex - without a condom." Billy had engaged in unprotected sex. "Yeah, a couple of times," he says, "cause they're uncomfortable or I didn't have one in the heat of the moment. I figured if the girl was on the pill, who needed to wear a condom? Was it really all that magic? the times I didn' t use a prophylactic "(I) believe it was a girl I dated back in college about four or five years ago, "Billy thinks back. According to the Center for Disease Control, AIDS cases in females have increased from seventeen percent to 39 percent in the past four years. AIDS has risen to become the United States sixth leading cause of death among fifteen to 24 year olds. I'm readin' about how it's transmitted some behavior I must admit it. who I slept with, who they slept with who they, who they, who they slept with. Since learning about his diagnosis, one of toughest things Billy's had to deal with is telling past girlfriends he had sex with about the virus. "As I sat down making a list of who I slept with," Billy says, "it started to scare me how many there were." Billy doesn't say this to be perceived as a so-called "stud," but as part of understanding his high-risk behavior and its role in his contracting HIV. "As I started calling them one by one," Billy recalls, "I was faced with explaining what had happened and telling each of them they should get tested. "Billy realizes he didn't have to do this, but would've felt guilty not doing so. He goes on to say that some of the girls were mad because they felt Billy had "killed" them, as one girl put it. Others were sympathetic and asked how they could help. Get on the phone and call my past lovers I never thought about infectin "anotha all the times that I said "Hmmm? Don't bother.
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