If the person will listen, she’s discreet but direct, getting as much information out there as possible. Pedro uses polite language, but she’s no softie about breaking the news. “You may not get them again,” she says of her attempts to notify people and encourage them to get treatment. “You try to knock it all out the same day.”
* * * * *
The youngest person Pedro ever had to break the news to was 14 years old. The oldest was 87, in Miami, where she spent three years notifying contacts in the late 1990s. Since coming to Tampa in 2006, she has met contacts in nearly every neighborhood in Hillsborough County, from upper-middle class subdivisions in Valrico to mobile homes on dirt roads in Wimauma.
In a single day, Pedro will reach out to teenagers still in school and middle-aged professionals; she’ll talk to young wives on their way out to the grocery store and professional dancers working at strip clubs along Nebraska Avenue. Everyone gets the same introduction and treatment.
See the full article from “Tbo.com”
San Francisco Adult Entertainment: Healthy S.F. is Harvard innovations award finalist »« San Francisco Adult Entertainment: Noir City Xmas 2011
