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Living With HIV/AIDS: A Lesson in Protection
By Kehinde Togun, Staff Writer �I�m sorry, your test results came back positive. You�ve been infected with the HIV virus.� These words are spoken to several hundred teenagers every year. One is Lawrence from Missouri, now 21. He became sexually active when he turned 17. A year later, he found out his partner had infected him with the HIV virus. Even though he blames his one-time partner, he also shoulders some of the blame, saying, �I didn�t ask, and he didn�t tell me.� Lawrence decided to get tested at his college only after a friend found out he was positive.
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