One person washes and cooks, and one person plays and plays... After his parents passed away from AIDS, 6-year-old Aaron lived alone in Niucheping Village, Liuzhou City. After his father passed away, the news that Aaron was HIV-positive spread in the village, and Aaron was also blocked from the school gate. "In today's AIDS relief work, all resistance comes from discrimination." said Weng Yuqiu, an AIDS doctor at the Liuzhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (China Youth Daily on the 29th)

AIDS is a cruel disease. Through drug treatment, this disease can be alleviated to a certain extent and the quality of life of AIDS patients can be improved. However, those ubiquitous discriminatory concepts have created layers of psychological barriers, wrapped in cold eyes, avoidance, and fear, demonizing people with AIDS, like a heavy and hard-to-dodge iron whip, causing heavy psychological pain and Mental torture. This "mental bombardment" is more lethal than AIDS itself.

People are already taking positive actions to eliminate AIDS discrimination. For example, central leaders have visited AIDS patients on World AIDS Day and Spring Festival many times. There are also some ordinary citizen actions, such as Ningxia teenagers actively creating anti-AIDS anti-discrimination text messages. The police officers of the HIV Special Management Team of Sanshui Labor Camp are under pressure that ordinary people cannot bear and face the risk of occupational exposure that may occur at any time. The dealings, etc., were touching.

However, this approach is still somewhat rare among the entire population, especially once AIDS patients are discovered. Although some people usually talk eloquently, they still easily fall into the vicious circle of excessive selfishness and forget about it. At the very least, it is common sense that "AIDS is not transmitted through skin-to-skin contact", but people with AIDS are placed in a separate book. In order to break this stubborn inertia, we need to actively promote the spirit of citizenship.

In other words, when it comes to lagging concepts and bad phenomena in the process of social development, it is not enough for ordinary citizens to just talk verbally and sit back and discuss. They should stand on the basis of public interests, social interests and Understand the development of society at a high level, use your own strength to promote the progress of ideas, use individual actions to fuel changes in society, and use the light of advanced ideas to send warm light to people who are lost. At this time, we may sacrifice some time and interests, receive some criticism, or even be ostracized, but what does this mean? As long as our actions improve the bad situation of those who are discriminated against, what can be more gratifying than this?

Citizen spirit has increasingly become the mainstream spirit of society, and is reflected in many public events. The Luo Caixia incident and the Zhang Wuben incident have attracted strong attention from netizens and society, and have been resolved to varying degrees. It can be said that the progress and development of society have clearly witnessed the tenacious driving force of citizen participation and the continuous growth of Chinese citizen spirit.

We should also pour this civic spirit into anti-AIDS discrimination and continue to push the theme of this year’s World AIDS Day to new heights.