It lies in getting the message across to young people. Telling young people to abstain from sex will not make one bit of difference. You can still preach abstinence but if they want to have sex they will have sex. The best way to tell them is to practice safe sex and to have a healthy lifestyle-do not engage in risky behaviour, when you go to bed with one person you also go to bed with everyone they have had sex with. . . It is only years later that you feel the difference in your body.
Sex can always wait.
I wish that I had waited. Sharon has come a long way from the terrified woman she was-waiting for death and feeling there was nothing to live for. Asked now if she still fears dying from AIDS Sharon is defiant. I now feel so complete in who I am and what I am doing in helping other people, that I think when the time comes I will have accomplished a lot, and a lot of people will have benefited from what I have done-whether it be people who are infected directly or the families of those infected. I know that when my eyes finally close I will have achieved something good.