Basically the story goes like this (it´s obviously more exciting and entertaining to watch it being told out loud…and I think I have almost perfected telling it in Spanish, which is an accomplishment!): So there´s this woman named Maria who is a housewife-she stays at home, cooking gallo pinto, carne asado, washing the clothing, chatting with her neighbors while her husband, Juan goes out looking for work. They have been married for about a year now and are so incredibly madly in love. There has not been another couple who has been so in love in Nicaragua, ever. This couple lives wherever I am giving the charla, so for now, we will say they live in Corinto. Finally Juan finds work as a bus driver in Chinandega-he has to drive from Chinandega to Somotillo, which is in the northern most part of the department, and sometimes has to drive to Honduras. Because these trips are so far away, about 2 to 3 times a month, he has to stay in a hotel away from home in Somotillo. Whenever he is in Somotillo, he always goes to the same restaurant, where the beautiful Ana works. Ana and him start talking-just talking…but after about a month, they decide to have sex-without a condom. While Ana works at the restaurant a lot, she loves to salsa dance when she is not working and she always goes to the same dance club. At this dance club she meets this handsome gorgeous man, Diego. Diego is the best salsa dancer she has ever seen, so they start dancing-just dancing…but after a couple nights of dancing together, they decide to have sex-without a condom. Now Diego has this amigo con derechos (a friend he has sex with), Carlos. They have a passionate sex life, but hardly ever use a condom. One day, Carlos is talking with his friends, when they recommend that he gets an HIV test. He does and his test comes back positive for HIV antibodies. Carlos talks with Diego and tells him that he should get an HIV test. Diego does and his test also comes back positive. Diego talks with Ana-Ana does the test and as well comes back positive. Ana speaks with Juan, tells him he should get a test, he does and his result also comes back positive. Now Juan needs to talk to his wife, that he is soooo in love with, Maria, who has been faithful staying in the house by herself-cooking, cleaning, washing. Now Maria, who thought her husband was faithful and therefore did not think it was necessary to use a condom while having sex with her husband, also has HIV. There are a few different spots in this story where if a condom was used, it could have prevented the chain of transmission. Clearly if everyone used a condom, only Carlos would have been HIV positive. If Juan and Ana had used a condom, both Juan and Maria would have been HIV negative. While enforcing the importance of using a condom everytime you have sex, it also reminds people how important it is to get tested.
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