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I would tell to get tested, to know your status.

As a case manager, I worked as a case manager and for a while there I saw, people coming in with two T cells, initially diagnosed with two T cells, four T cells; and I think it’s just a travesty that something that is manageable and that it shouldn’t have to get to that point, you know.

And basically come in and they're much younger than myself so, I would assume, or normally they're healthier.

But they're coming in, because of the fact that they hadn’t been tested, they don't know their status.

They wait ‘til they fall out on the job or they fall out at home, and rationalizing, whatever kind of infection or whatever they have they're rationalizing what’s going on with them, instead of just actually going to the doctor and being tested.

Because if you know you’re between a certain age of thirteen to sixty-four you’ve had unprotected or put yourself at risk, you might be, you might have put yourself at risk for HIV.

So I feel that you should be tested, you know.

And—and it’s just a travesty to see people going— I mean being tested at stage four, you know, and if they caught— caught it all earlier they could have gotten on medication and start a regiment and some of the things, they wouldn't have had to go through.