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@Ariblaze

Duh.

Leave this matter, abeg.

i didnt know Oceanic bank and the other banks were churches

Broke your leg??

eyaah, pele.

After my leg got burnt once, i tried never. . . .

it was hard sha, but God dey

Deleson.

Ignorance is bliss for you

She can never be a virgin

laa

Is there a Dark Knight curse?

First, Heath Ledger passes away.

Then, Christian Bale is arrested and has momma drama.

Now, Morgan Freeman gets into a bad car accident and is hospitalized in serious condition.

What's next?

Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine and the rest of them all better be careful!

LOL

Rihanna has really done her image some good

aww, eyah

Exactly.

ok, this one was an okada man sha, immediately i paid him

he used the money to buy cigarette from the mallam in front of my house

It is a true life story.

i have evn watched the movie on it.

@Feu, theres nothing fishy here.

Remember she prolly didnt like sex very much

and the times she may have had it, insisted on condoms

well it is wat it is.

LOL.

Na me she dey give birrth to ooh, why the plane no delay naa

i fit don be Americana

it depends nowwwww.

From ikeja to VI, i wont enter for more than 1000

if u hv some form of luggage, 1500 to 3000, depending on how you look.

From VI to Ajah, about the same thing

From Ebute-metta to Iyana ipaja, hole your 4000-2500, depending

Short distance like Surulere to Yaba, 300, Vi to lekki, 300 to 700


Taxi people dey look face oo, if u look like oyinbo they go charge high.

I SEE my mum almost did that, but sadly the plane don already reach naija

@Feu

it is surely possible to have sex with an HIV-infected person and not get infected.

Riversman, sounds too good to be true o

my sister has applied now that belle no dey show

because if belle dey show, fogerrit!!!

Football?

Eeeeeewwwwww

@Topic, NONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

awww

Lord mercy, even with all the precautions we take. . . . .

Its Gamine, kind sir.

Thanks for modifying your post.

How come you dey quote bible sef

Did he beg you to post hia

Thank God!!! typical u u

i hv never liked hannah montana, miley cyrus watever

i think she looks funny and has such a voice

if not for my younger ones and cozs and E! i wont hv known she existed sef.


but i do like her seven things i hate about you song

@Eclairs

Bros u came late so MUTE

i just had to post this


She’s a young, attractive New Yorker who has a lot going for her: artistic talent, affluent parents, an elite education and an outgoing personality. Her future looks good. Her name is Alison Gertz and she’s sixteen years old.

Alison and her mother are close. They even discuss that most difficult of subjects – sex. She tells her mother when she plans to lose her virginity and together they go to a gynaecologist for advice on contraceptives.

The day she has her first sexual encounter, street smart teenager that she is, Alison thinks she’s well prepared. She’s already on the pill.

Cort Brown is 27, and a bartender. He’s an acquaintance of Alison’s and she thinks he’s “the most beautiful man” she’s ever seen. A year after she meets him, he comes to her home (she’s picked a time when her parents are away) bringing champagne, candles, roses and something else. Alison is blown away by the romance.

But the actual experience doesn’t live up to the billing for either of them. So they both agree not to sleep together again. And they don’t.

Fast forward six years to 1989. Aged 22, Alison becomes very ill. Doctors can’t seem to figure out what’s wrong with her. Finally, one doctor makes a frightening diagnosis: Alison is HIV positive.

She contacts her previous boyfriends, urges them to get tested. They’re all HIV negative so she traces back farther. To her first sexual partner, Cort. Now she finds out he was bisexual and has since died of AIDS.

What does she do next? She goes public with her HIV infection so that other young people can learn from her experience. After all, she’s one of them, so they’re more likely to listen to her message.

And she’s right – she becomes an instant hit as a spokesperson for HIV, speaking to students in the US. Her story inspires a movie. The World Health Organization distributes a film about her.

Alison is a young woman on a mission, warning that anyone can get infected with HIV. Her parents support her all the way. She’s their only child so one can only imagine how difficult it is for them to watch her health deteriorate.

They are both at her bedside on August 8, 1992 when she dies of an AIDS-related illness, at 26. Alison’s three best friends set up an organization to continue her work of educating young people about the life-changing consequences of HIV and AIDS. Her parents also set up a foundation to help raise funds for AIDS research.

Interestingly, the XVII International AIDS Conference is being held in Mexico City this week. At about the same time in 1992, Alison Gertz died of AIDS.

What lessons can we learn from Alison’s story? I’ll list three that stand out for me.

First, parents need to discuss these issues with their children. OK, maybe few Nigerian parents will discuss contraception with their teenage daughters – heck, many parents won’t even discuss sex at all. But isn’t that like putting your head in the sand and hoping the problem will go away? Many teenagers are sexually active whether their parents know it or not.

Interestingly, after she disclosed her HIV status, Alison promoted abstinence as the only real safe sex. But she told young people to protect themselves if they were going to have sex. She knew that not everyone would abstain. She herself was sexually active after finding out she was HIV positive, although she did disclose her status to her boyfriend. After that, they slept together twice using double protection. But he didn’t feel safe and they ended their relationship.

It’s not only teenagers that need educating about HIV and AIDS; adults need this too. So lesson 2 [/b]from Alison’s story is this: if you are sexually active, don’t dismiss the threat of AIDS unless you are in a 100% monogamous (meaning no cheating on either side, ever) relationship and you are both HIV-negative.

People choose to take risks but no one chooses to become HIV positive. Except for the thrill-seeking “bug chasers” who deliberately set out to become infected by having unprotected sex with HIV positive people.

[b]Lesson 3: every experience, no matter how painful, can be channelled into something positive. Alison didn’t just bemoan her fate, as others might have done. She decided to help others, to warn them against putting themselves at risk of HIV and AIDS. As she said in an interview reported in The New York Times in March 1989:

“If I die, I would like to have left something, to make the world a little better before I go, to help people sick like me and prevent others from getting this.”

Let me ask you: what can Nigerian parents and young people learn from Alison’s story?

By chichi layor

aww

LOL

e wo!

Me im getting married on 10/10/10