Welcome back to It's All Bad.

I'm Keith.

And I'm Reno.

And we are here with Melanie.

Hi.

All right.

I'm excited to be here, you guys. Thanks for having me. Thank you. We're excited to have you. Yeah. Now we're all quiet. I know. I know. Just so you guys know, we were riffing before this. And now we're all like crickets. Well, I, because what I was, it's interesting, what we were talking about is like,

because I, I was under the assumption, you know, Magic Johnson had, I don't know if he had HIV or full blown AIDS. HIV. Okay, but am I crazy? Is he not completely cured? I thought that it was like, all the sudden, like, he got it and all the sudden there was a cure for him. Am I crazy with that? Yeah, that was what the sentiment around the world was.

Right.

I mean, he had that Magic Johnson money. So he was like in Switzerland

and fucking Helsinki or wherever they were like doing the serious hyperbaric treatments coupled

with like fucking seaweed wraps on top of whatever. But currently you can take medication so that you are undetectable. Right. And I think that's where he's at. Yeah. So if you're, if you're, if you're HIV positive and you take medication, you keep up with it and keep up with your health, you can be undetectable. And then you have a partner or partners that are also on prep, you're good. Yeah.

But unfortunately, the stigma is terrible.

So I have friends who, of course, were HIV positive and you say that.

And it's a lot of times the people then just ghost them.

It's very difficult to come back from telling somebody that you're HIV positive.

You really have to be like in, like I went through cry help two and a half times and in there,

you have, the UCLA has an office in there and if your medical status is that you're positive,

you literally go to the top of the list and you don't even have to wait for a bed, you go in right away. Yeah. And as soon as you get there, you're plugged in with like AHF and you get on the cocktail. And like in like three weeks, four weeks, they're like chiseled, like fit. You know what I mean? Exercising, taking their medication. And like she said is Melanie, right? right yeah like Melanie said is you can be

like undetectable the T cells you know go way back up and everything's like you hunky dory but if

you're not in that environment really like learning about that information and how like you know

it's all good in the hood like nobody's going to get sick from like sharing a water cup and like all this kind of

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