So I consider myself a pretty random person when it comes to doing things in my life. So today I was at Mark's Caribbean restaurant looking through the coupon book and found one for $10 off any piercing so I figure...why not? The coupon expired today so I got an industrial piercing. The reason why I'm talking about my piercing because I was talking to the girl who was doing my piercing and asked whether or not she pierced people who were HIV-positive. She said she didn't really have any issues doing the piercing and that she's done piercings for HIV-positive people before. She treats everyone as though they have a disease because that's a precaution that keeps her safe.
So the organization that I chose is AMREF, African Medical and Research Foundation. AMREF continues its projects through country programmes in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Tanzania, Southern Sudan and South Africa. Support is provided to an additional 30 African countries. AMREF creates healthy communities. The villages express their need and AMREF sends in people to help with each one. They send medicines out to different villages to help stop people from dying of preventable diseases like HIV, TB, and malaria.
For more information about AMREF you can go to www.amref.org and I'll continue to post about the organization the more I research it.
That was a very interesting transition into the topic, I really didn't know where you were going with that intro lol. Since her profession deals with blood on a daily basis, then it would be very important to know her views on the subject. Do customers even need to discuss they are HIV positive before getting a piercing? I have gotten tattoos before but never a piercing, is that any different?
ReplyDeleteWell being a man of many piercings, and tattoos I know that they have very strict regulations on sterilization. After every piercing they have to sterilize the needle for the reason of disease and such. Tattoo artists as well have to change out needles for every tattoo. But this was a great topic, kept my interest pretty well.
ReplyDeleteNo you don't need to disclose your HIV status to anyone but a sex or needle sharing partner. The young lady was correct in treating everyone as being positive and taking all the precautions necessary.
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Great opening to your blog and thanks for the picture. That looks like it hurt. I enjoyed reading about your organization. I'm glad you will be doing more research on it.
The piercing didn't hurt when she did it only later that day when everyone I knew decided they wanted to give me a hug on that side of my body. :-). Also, about every needle being sterilized my piercer uses new needles in packages every time for piercings. There is a piece of paper that you have to sign stating that you are 18+ and one of the questions on there is whether or not you're HIV positive or if you have any STDs.
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