My sleepy dragon

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This month Akira, my youngest son of 13 years old, and I travelled to Antwerp for a filmshoot for the 'Undetectable equals Untransmittable' (U=U) campaign in Belgium. Whilst in the train towards Antwerp I asked how he felt to be part of this campaign, since this was not his first time participating in campaigns related to HIV and AIDS. He was also part of the 'coming out of the closet' (HIV uit de kast) campaign, the short movie 'people from the HIV association', the Amsterdam 2018 AIDS Conference welcoming campaign, and now U=U. Akira's answer was; "Mom, I am proud to help out. I believe what we do is pretty cool! I hope we are bringing the message across to people so the new generation won't suffer a lot of HIV stigma anymore".

At that moment, I got a flashback of when I told him about my HIV status when he was 7 years old. I wanted to take this opportunity to proudly share this with you. Back then, Akira asked me "Mama, you have a lot of medicines. Are all of them for diabetes?" I said "No, they are for something else". Immediately I felt that he was ready for me to share the truth.

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