Prince Harry met on Thursday with health workers who help members of minority communities live with HIV and AIDS during his visit to NAZ in Fulham, London. The 32-year-old royal’s aim in his visit was to raise awareness among the younger generation of sexually transmitted diseases.
While at the sexual health charity, the fifth-in-line to the British throne listened to a performance by the Joyful Noise choir render Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry,” ABC reported. Choir members are all living with HIV. Prince Harry sang along, danced on his seat and was seen grinning happily at the performance of a song by one of his favorite singers.
Continuing His Mother's Advocacy
His work on destigmatizing HIV and AIDS is a continuation of what his mother, the late Princess Diana, started. Prince Harry walked his talk by undergoing an HIV test in July broadcast live on the monarchy’s Facebook page to serve as an example to the public how the testing is done.
The prince’s persuasive powers was shown when majority of the Joyful Noise’s members agreed to go public with their ailment by posing for pictures with Prince Harry. Before his arrival for the event, only five choir members were willing to go public, The Telegraph reported.
Convincing Choir Members
To conversince the choir members, Prince Harry told them “Not talking about something can actually kill you. People are happy to talk about their youngest child having cancer, that might even kill them, but the other child who has HIV, they don’t talk about that.” When she was still alive, Princess Diana shook hands with HIV patients to educate people that it is not dangerous to touch HIV-positive people because the virus is not transmitted that way. But that was 25 years ago when having HIV was considered a death sentence. Since then so many people have staked blood, sweat and tears to fix the problem, Prince Harry said.
