Updated Dec. 2, 2008 -- Four average Americans. Two are HIV-positive. Think you can tell who?
More than 25 years after AIDS first surfaced, far too many Americans still believe it’s possible to tell if people have HIV by the way they look or live their lives. Styled as a reality show-slash-documentary, this half hour BET News special challenges that myth with a guessing game.
In the ARE YOU POSITIVE?, BET profiled four regular African Americans: two men and two women. One of the men and one of the women are HIV-positive. Viewers caught a glimpse of their worlds – what they do for work and fun, their passions and dreams – and were challenged to try and guess which two of the four are living with HIV.
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In the final act, the characters revealed their status and spoke, with inspiring openness, about their relationship with the disease. ARE YOU POSITIVE? confronts the stereotypes that people – particularly Black Americans – still hold about HIV, who it affects and why.