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BET News Are You Positive? About the Show

Updated Dec. 2, 2008 -- Four average Americans. Two are HIV-positive. Think you can tell who?

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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. 
 

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  • "why ....?"
  • i beleive that it should be a law too have a class in every country on the subject aids b/c the reason yung people do not know the correct info on this subject b/c people refuse too speak on it. it is like they want nothing 2 do with it so i say yes lets put it in are schools. what do yo say???
  • "yes too stereotypical indeed"
  • the message was good but i kind of new who had it and who didnt. but it doesn't show what people living with hiv/aids go through on a day to day basis. for example trying to find jobs, insurance, and other basic essentials.
  • "info"
  • do you know if this will reair or if you can buy the piece? i am an aids counselor and would like to use in my work.
  • "too stereotypical!"
  • this special (are you positive) was a decent piece....however it was too stereotypical and predictable who had h.i.v ... (keith, 31) was gay...(makesha, 34) was from the deep south...people automatically assume gay people are positive...and people from the south are ignorant....so personally it wasn't a shocker to me....it would have been an eye opener if devin and jami were positive...two heterosexual individuals...which is where the highest rate of h.i.v is found...so if u had shown positive "straight" couples...it would have really blown people away...like "wowww they look like me" or "wow
  • "i think"
  • i think that aids is a disease that isnt recognized enough by us as african american people. we get affected doesnt mean that we are the hiv.