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HIV: from the indifference to the commitment | Ignacio Angel Aguirre | TEDxUCC


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in the year 1992
the HIV / AIDS epidemic was
one of my friends
back then I did not have very well
clear how it was possible that my friend was
I was
and this generated a special voracity of
my part to try to understand how
it was possible that what happened
happened with this epidemic
at that time all material that
I arrived on AIDS and it fell on my
hands was reason for reading and I
I find a phrase
what is the phrase that connects me with the
fear with anguish but over
all things with the need of
do
the phrase said in the years to come
West attend the Africanization of
the epidemic this means that they are going to
infect they are going to get sick and they are going to
die fundamentally
I have a daughter depository of love
most immense
that at that time I had a game
with me and we played to that I
reached and she ran and I never
tired purpose
after that
I had the need to reach it
hug her
so nothing will happen to him
this was the initial pillar of an NGO that
was born there by 92 93 that we are
teenagers against AIDS
we were not clear about what we were going to do
but we were clear that we wanted
do something and we tell ourselves we do not
I was only part of this NGO, I’m not
just me but that she spent a
bunch of guys countless guys
we agreed that what had to be
We do was educate and we find
that wonderful phrase by Nelson Mandela
what did he say
education is the most powerful weapon
to change the world and we wanted
change that world so that at least
in our Jesus-Mary had not been and
I wanted so that my Jesus maría no mi
daughter was as protected as possible
when people say that generous what
yours no no this started from one of something
I would say
too much mine as it was to protect my
daughter
we find phrases like this
we dived is what that means
the disease
in the people that caused the disease in
the transmission mechanisms
and we came across issues related to
sexuality and then we had to
to touch with something that the world calls bad
words but this wonderful man
called roberto fontanarrosa said no
there are bad words what
there are bad intentions and
we did not have absolutely
no bad intention in all this
We wanted to know to share the
knowledge we got together with my
soldaditos of life as ever
They were baptized by Doctor Hugo Roland and
then we are dedicated to know and when
we started to learn we realized
that many of the things that we
we thought that the others were true
they thought about it and that we could live with
different ideas
and I’m talking about sexuality and
I’m talking about the look with regard to
him to exercise that sexuality and if
do not look at this example both are right
however society has a look
so biased about this that I do not
It was very difficult if today it is difficult to talk
of this imagine what it was 25 years ago
We knew that to contract HIV only
you had to be human and we are all
humans and the most painful part of this
epidemic is the number of children
infected there
and then how could it be otherwise
way in the first encounter to which
we concur with my soldiers of the
life the 17 founders of aces
we find our first
patient with AIDS
4 year old boy who left us marked
for life
we found that there was
reasoning I do not know her very much and
then we saw this story that is by
other significant is the history of
these two guys who intimated last night if
each of them in the last year
intimate with three people that night there was
eight people involved in the
relationship but if instead of considering a
year to back
we consider four the number of people
involved are 80 and if instead of
consider four years consider ten
It would take 728 pages to publish
the photos of all the people who were in
that bed lowered by hand
then we realized something that
define so fantastically this
slide when intimate with someone
is not intimate with a person is
intimate with that person’s story
and with the history of the people who
They got intimate with that person
we had a huge a huge ally weigh
to sayings that have circulated through our
absurd society and that ally was the
latex condom that does not allow
pass the water the air one does not inflate and not
it deflates however there are people who
a very questionable speech what
questioned
notice that I had many teachers but
one of the most important lessons that
I had was the one who gave us the hiv to this
virus that is called those of the
human immunodeficiency does not care
neither the color of my skin nor the religion
who professed neither if I’m rich nor am I
poor neither if I like men or I
they like women in an epidemic
characterized by discrimination the
great non-discriminator of this story
it was called hiv
how we counteract that discrimination
and discrimination is the pillar
fundamental on which the
epidemic how do we counteract the
discrimination with that magic word
but not only what happens
dialectical but that has to do with
everyday actions solidarity and
as a biochemist that I am and as a former
teacher that I’m from high school
I resorted to this wonderful phrase of one
from my teachers that said
we would have to imitate the solidarity of
the blood that runs to the wound without
need to be called as
counterpart
we came across this this happened
for years and that the
ostrich policy tuck his head
to believe that of this not that by not
We see it not going to happen
you know there is so much time in which we have
given such an advantage in preventing
vih taking this kind of attitude
well we get together with the boys all
the weeks at school he saw us
born in that huge cement womb
called faustino sunday school
shoot with the need absolutely
non – delegable to do
ever
Pedro, one of my greatest teachers
published this sentence we are all
responsible for what we do not try to
prevent and we go out to try to
impede what would come
these are the little soldiers of life that
they started the task these are my heroes
these are the ones who put aside their
leisure time to family
to engage in the fight against
HIV / AIDS are the ones that every Wednesday
they meet at school not them
because they are moms but they are
those who marked the way all the
Wednesday we got together in the same
school to try to know to try
to know to try to carry that
knowledge so that nobody else will
pass this know you have questioned me
many times they have said many things very
unpleasant
I prefer hundreds of angry parents
because we have talked about this topic because
I’ve talked about this topic and not a mother
devastated because her daughter got the
hiv
this was our last meeting
a few days ago we were with
the kids who go to school in the
we invaded the clubs
we invaded the neighborhood centers
we invaded to the parochial centers
but fundamentally the message came to
each and every one of the families of the
guys from aces and their friends too
May 25 is a very special day
because there is a huge activity in Jesus
Mary and then we take advantage of
show something of what we do the
first of December is the most
important in the world in that related
with the fight against AIDS and for
six years we made the march of the
thousand t-shirts a march that enjoys thanks
to God ‘with the support of our
municipality that has become flesh of the
what we do and that day
we call the whole community and when
I say to the whole community I say to all the
community this will surely be the
future soldiers of life in 2013
We said how good it would be to make a
a campaign to call the march with
those gloves when we saw the price of
the gloves we said how good what task
but as he once said a great
Argentine thinker do not give up
not even beaten and then what we did
we paint and then we call
our commune to join this march
that what he intended was to try
awaken some of the many
dormant consciences that we have in
our society good these are some
photos of that march this photo is
barbarian because it allows me to remember that
I have to find a shirt for boys
these are the children
the grandchildren that gave me life one of the
saddest questions that have made me
in my life, how much do you earn, I do not gain anything
but all the money in the world does not
would come to serve to buy love and
the affection that I feel that I am
depositary
and this is to not be macho because
I just put them to the little soldiers of the
life and these were our future
soldiers of life this was the march
last year was very special because
we started the 25 years and in the shirt
there were a lot of pictures of our from
our story in the red ribbon
these are friends who came with their
family the task is absolutely
inclusive
and these are the daughters of one of the
founders of aces that as I could not go
without the pacifier obviously accompanied us
with his pacifier
they remember the definition decide that
AIDS is a disease that
organize the defense system of the
people or there is no other AIDS that is the
that arises from discrimination the
rejection and stigma and it’s called AIDS
social and is not caused by the video
is caused by us and causes
much more damage
you know when I see this drawing
from the first day that I saw it I can not
stop getting excited
because I remember that 4-year-old boy who
I do not need to ask to ask us what
we embraced because we did
spontaneously
this he
who said
an indelible mark on each of
we
and the red ribbon that you must have
seen everywhere it transcends with
you grow a piece of cloth with a pin
here and commitment here and containment
here and knowledge here and solidarity
but above all things there is a
huge share of love for others
we have distributed hundreds
thousands tens of thousands of red ribbons to
throughout our history with aces in
each one of those red ribbons we leave
our love
I believe in solidarity
because it is in concrete facts I do not believe in
the question of the word I believe in the
hug as a manifestation
wonderful of my solidarity
I can not help but remember one of my
greatest masters the great paco mateo
that should be watching us from above
that brought us that wonderful phrase
that said we are angels of a single wing
we can only fly hugged to another
this is the engine of my life
This was the one that I wanted that day
he will reach it
today I brought a bigger engine yet
I finish showing myself in my heart
He’s very young and he does not get all the love
I have for him
and in the middle of the two is my
unconditional companion who supported me
in all the moments that my wife
Martha
Many times they ask me what is my
dream and if I dream of a world without AIDS
I dream of many organizations of
guys working on this
I’m bringing back that moment when the
first boy handed that red bow and in
he his knowledge his contention his
solidarity your love to another and it seems to me
that would be barbarous that many more
made to generate a society in
where the subject is raised from the
knowledge from health and not from
the disease maybe this goes so
favor of saying why not think about it
backwards because not to wake up the
problematic of AIDS from health
from prevention and not having to
think about it when the case appeared so
close to our life
ever this good man called
this good man called fray mamerto
Menapace said we come to this world with
three slogans to leave a trace of
try to be happy and to learn to
love you know I have no doubt that
with aces we leave a trace I do not have the
Less doubt that we could do that
thanks to the enormous love we have for
our neighbor
and do not have the slightest doubt that that
he did enormous but enormously happy
a while ago I heard a conversation
between san martín and redone reported
by a historian who said san martín
he said to po and redon we have to cross
the mountain range of the Andes and free
Chile so that the American continent
be free and by redon said that is
impossible
and san martín said to him I know that it is
impossible but it is imperative that
let’s try and if we try what
essential
surely what seems impossible
stop being it
my dream my illusion would be to reach all
and each of the heads of our
young people and tell them they are important
that you have to take care of because life
of them is beautiful and because if you do not
they care and something happens to them they will leave
dead in life
I would like to get to each of the
consciences of all young people
although that seems impossible
You know, I keep trying, I know it’s
impossible
but it is imperative
that keeps trying because what
better if I keep trying this thing that seems
impossible
end up being possible
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