Love and HIV
Love can induce dangerous attitude because unbalanced relation between "logical requirement" and "affective requirement". He/she will maybe accept a risk because he/she fear that his/her partner leaves him/her if he insist too much on safety. He/she can also accept a risk just because he/she fear that the partner could interprete a safety requirements as a lack of confidence (wrongly associate with love).
Possible strategies
About messages
If we focalize on the "danger of love ", we can produce prevention material (poster, articles in magazines, VDO's etc) which will:
- Dissociate in mind love and confidence. A perfect true lover can admit that his/her partner don't have confidence in his/her past history and his/her blood status. The problem of HIV status should be totally independent of love considerations.. for BOTH partners
- Simply make aware about the natural tendency to idealize the partner we love could improve ability to "control" this tendency.
- It could be very efficient also to emphasize the fact that even in the best condition of love, with strong mutual respect, some topic concerning the past can be nearly impossible to share... Typical example could be the male who was sodomize during his sexual maturation process. Sometimes, truth is hide simply because he or she forget one former risky episode of his/her sexual life..
About dissemination:
The prevention strategy should maybe focus dissemination of such material in the group of the female adolescents which seems clearly more susceptible than others to fall in "dangerous love"...
Examples of prevention material
Poster trying to dissociate love and confidence in the mind of the auditors.
Audio clip about the possibility of "unspeakable topic" between 2 lovers ("sprungmattress-unspeakabletopic" for radio broadcasting) (En)
Short movie on the same topic ("unspeakable topic") (for TV broadcasting) (for TV broadcasting) (Th+En)