What can be done?

I, too, get extremely sad when AIDS is brought up, especially in reference to those countries suffering from it in Africa. It is truly heartbreaking to see those specials on television that feature broken and dying families. I think the saddest part of it all is in relation to the children. I have heard that so many adults have died of the disease, that whole villages are nothing but children. :(

This brings me to the chapter, which had much to say about the topic of AIDS and the many misconceptions or myths that were made up about it. I wasn't around when AIDS was first discovered, but it was not all that long ago. The text tells of how it was first noticed in homosexual men and how that factor contributed to the association with homosexuals to the disease. Many non-scientific assumptions were made, such as AIDS being able to casually travel from person to person. This was such an accepted belief that when some gay activists were being arrested, policemen wore yellow gloves to 'protect' themselves from their 'AIDS.'

It is interested that you brought Torrez up, Asma, as his project involving the candy goes along EXACTLY with this chapter. The artist's stack of chocolate questioned the viewer whether or not he would take a piece of candy from a gay man, all the way up to a kiss. It was a very interesting concept, and I can see why he came up with such an idea, as people during his time thought that he would infect them just by being friendly, or even, shall I say, just being human.