Miss Hiv Positive Beauty Pageant Begins Nov 23

I advice all the women here to go for test, may be they will be enlist among the participants. 

I will suggest Seun installs a software that can track your HIV status online using your finger prints as you type . . . what about that?

We can no longer do anything with our talent, time and resources anymore. Anyway I wish them luck.

I see nothing wrong with this initiative, if  beauty peagents could be  organized for HIV negative people, y can't it be done for persons living with HIV

They need to be integrated back into the society and live like normal humans without any form of stigma.

condemnation of this event is synonymous to condemning the PARA-LYMPIC games

A "crazy person" like me could get married to an HIV positive person if i fall in love with her, even though i am negative!

Remember, all human beings are equal

I am sure most of them will not come out.

This pageant has my stamp of approval since it is designed to obliterate the stigma associated with persons living with HIV. Comparing a HIV+ person to an armed robber is tantamount to comparing a person infected with, say cancer, to a criminal. May the Lord forgive such persons making those erroneous comparisons, and I pray that they, or a member of their family, never become infected with HIV.

could end up biting people in the ass by making that go too far.  as in why protect myself agaist it.  its like a pagent for pregnant teens leading to an increase of teenage pregnancy

You are right after all, the pageant for virgins last year did not lead to increase in virgins like they expected.

Remember the story here: http://odili.net/news/source/2009/feb/13/305.html

Proud HIV positive citizens.Lol

Ofcourse, will come back and hunt them in the rear

miss hiv stigma free[Botswana]
Kgalalelo Ntsepe is elected Miss HIV Stigma Free 2003 in the capital Gaborone. She is elected to prove that HIV positive people are equal members of society.

Miss HIV contestant, Elizabeth Ramolale, wonders whether her costume for part of the competition is going to keep her dignity intact.

Mavis Kealeboga having her hair done in a beauty salon in Kasane, Botswana, in preparation for the big event later that night.

Another contestant

Over the past two years, photographer Sönke C. Weiss traveled throughout the Congo and southern Africa, the region hardest hit by HIV/Aids. He wanted to find out about the women who have been affected by HIV/Aids there, who they are, what they think, how they deal with the Aids pandemic, how it affects their lives and their souls, and what the future holds for them.
Mr. Weiss found himself to be fascinated by the parallel existence of both frailty and courage in these women and struck by their kindness, love and passion for life. Nearly all of them had been infected by their husbands or longterm partners, yet he found grace and hope rather than the cynicism and bitterness he had expected. Mr. Weiss says: "I learned that they did not want to be defined by their disease, but by the life they still hoped for and by their relationships to others as daughters, sisters, friends, mothers and wives."
He does not see these women as victims; for him they are heroines. "Each day they fight against an invisible virus and the painful stigma often associated with it. They endure their suffering for the sake of their children, families and communities. Many experience sorrow; others find solidarity. But they all share a beauty and a bravery that I have yet to see duplicated elsewhere", Mr. Weiss says. The photographer believes that their stories exemplify the experience of countless other women around the world living with HIV/Aids. He hopes that his work does them justice.

That wasnt nice.
They were telling their stories and i think it is possible.