Reply #5: On the Biden thing, you are aware that straight people can get HIV, too. [View All]

[NYCGirl]

And he didn't want anyone to think he was messing around on Michelle.

He was actually tested THREE TIMES to set an example for AIDS awareness.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/11/sweet_column_obama_the_serial.html

Another test for 2008?
Obama again publicizing HIV screening -- and he's got a big speech on Iraq today

For the second time in 97 days, Sen. Barack Obama -- who is mulling a 2008 presidential run and giving a big speech on Iraq today -- will take another public HIV/AIDS test.

Given his marriage to his wife, Michelle, and the certainty he is not shooting up anything, Obama's test results will again be negative.

As an HIV/AIDS awareness publicity stunt, public testing is a tool to help fight the disease. I'm not naive; I understand that Obama taking an HIV/AIDS test in his father's Kenyan province in August was a highly symbolic but potentially educational, motivational and life-saving gesture in a country where men resist testing. But after Obama takes another public HIV/AIDS test Dec. 1 -- for this audacious senator, maybe enough is enough.

Obama's previous HIV/AIDS test was Aug. 26 in Kisumu, a city in western Kenya about an hour away from his father's homestead. He was joined by Michelle.