Personal account about a family member affected by HIV/AIDS

AIDS KILLS In October 1985, a close relative of mine was diagnosed HIV Positive at the age of thirty-four. He was beginning a relationship with a girlfriend and he talked her into going for a HIV test. While he was at the medical clinic, he decided to take a test himself too, although the tests concluded that in fact, his girlfriend was negative while he was positive. How the disease was transmitted to him remains unknown …

…remember much of it though, I was only 7. Just before he passed away we brought him back to his home in an ambulance so he could leave us in the peace of his own house with his family. My close relative had the 5th highest IQ in all of NSW. He was the most spiritual and loving man anyone could ever meet, and he threw his life away... Rest In Peace Uncle ***** November 19** - August 19**