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In 2004 things seemed fine for Ayinuer. She had a husband who, despite a drug addiction, loved her, and a wonderful 7-month-old daughter. But then her husband found himself suffering constant fever and diarrhea.
Now Ayinuer is one of those volunteers, touring throughout the region,casque beats, writing and performing plays and musicals based on actual HIV/AIDS patients' experiences to help raise awareness of the disease and remove its stigma.
Sadly, her husband died soon after she completed the course, but now she knew she had to muster the courage to be tested herself.
"One afternoon he came home pale as a sheet and handed me a blood-test result. I couldn't move. He was HIV positive. I remember it like it happened yesterday," she said.
Ayinuer is one of 28 Red Cross volunteers in the region, but she never would have found herself here if the disease hadn't ravaged her own family.
She took the course only thinking of the much needed extra money for her cash-strapped family, yet the program empowered her through its de-mystification of HIV/AIDS.
"Now I understand the disease and its implications -- it can't simply be spread by sitting in the chair where an infected individual has been,louboutin pas cher," she said. "The more I educate myself the more I start to feel that I'm not different from others -- having HIV doesn't make me less human."
"I still fear for the future every day, but I'm much more content with life now," she said. "He loves me and treats my daughter as his own."
They sent their daughter to live with relatives, isolated themselves for fear of spreading the disease, and refused to go to hospitals because they worried they might be locked up.
2011-12-01 21:07:13.0Muslims in Xinjiang become more tolerant of HIVAIDS Xinjiang1158963Society2@webnews/enpproperty-->The region has also carried out competitions among middle school students who are multilingual on HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment.
Several months after her husband's diagnosis, the situation remained bleak but stable, and volunteers from the Red Cross invited Ayinuer to an HIV/AIDS training course that upon completion would offer a subsidy.
"With years of promotion, people now know major transmission channels for AIDS, and many no longer look down upon AIDS patients," said Hailiman,director of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care Center of Red Cross Society of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region branch.
After completing a more intensive training course,abercrombie and fitch, she became a full-time volunteer for the Red Cross.
"We used to be threatened and sometimes assaulted when we went door-to-door to educate people," Ayinuer said. "But now people are talking about HIV more openly, and I've witnessed people moved to tears while watching our plays."
According to Dilixiati, director of the local AIDS prevention and control working committee office under the regional Department of Health,abercrombie france, the regional government has brought religious figures to 59 mosques in Xinjiang's high risk areas recently, and promoted HIV/AIDS related knowledge to more than 5,000 imams in the hopes of raising public awareness among Muslims.
For Ayinuer,abercrombie, she devotes most of her her time and energy into her work and her life continues to improve. Last year on December 1, which is also the World AIDS Day, she and an HIV-positive colleague got married.
Ayinuer tested positive, and soon after her daughter did as well. This time there were no thoughts of suicide or self pity, only determination and responsibility.
YINING,polo ralph lauren,Xinjiang- Ayinuer, a 29-year-old Uygur,louboutin, had no time for community volunteers intent on educating the public on HIV/AIDS seven years ago. In fact, she'd slam the door in their faces.
She believes her efforts and those of her fellow volunteers have paid off, as people have started talking more openly about the disease,casque dr dre, which in turn has decreased discrimination against those living with HIV/AIDS.
Since 1999 when the Xinjiang Red Cross first started HIV/AIDS prevention, it has established a partnership with AIDS prevention organizations from Australia, Britain and Germany, trained hundreds of volunteers, and contributed greatly to the region's AIDS awareness cause.
She cried and drowned herself in regret and self pity -- she considered suicide, many times. In the back of her mind she knew that she and her daughter might also be infected, but fear and ignorance prevented her from being tested.
Ayinuer wasn't alone,franklin marshall, as the disease was a taboo for the majority in the communities of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. People considered HIV carriers dirty.
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