AIDS is growing at an alarming rate in this country, largely through unprotected sex. Although the word is out about barrier methods of intercourse, and other ways to practice safer sex, many people are unwiling to act consistently to protect themselves from AIDS and other STIs.

In this video, several HIV+ people discuss how they felt about safer sex before they were infected, and how they feel about it now. The men and women in the clip offer strategies for how to insist on safer sex, how important it is, and how they never would have thought AIDS could happen to them.

Please watch the following video clip and answer the corresponding follow-up questions.

Just Like Me

1			Do you or the people around you practice safer sex? Do you think the strategies suggested in the video would work? What other ways of insisting on safer sex might work?
2			Were you surprised by the people interviewed in this clip -- their demographics, their attractiveness, their health? If you'd met any of them on the street, would you have been able to guess their serostatus?