Fear

"They need people like you, those children do, people who aren't afraid of their illness. People like me, we're too afraid even if we know..." my barber said to me in Vietnamese.

I explained to her that it's not that I am unafraid, because everybody is afraid of HIV, it's just that I understand the risks involved in what I do and how to be careful. There is nothing to fear when we really understand the reality of working with people who are ill, so long as we are safe about it.