People are still afraid and unwilling to educate themselves even now.....and that is shameful

I have friends from all over the world and from all walks of life. And one thing that no one will know about me unless they happen to know me and what makes me tick is that I am very loyal to all of my friends, and if someone hurts any of my friends, the person who inflicted the hurt had better hope I don't find them. Yesterday, someone hurt one of my friends, but I didn't find out about it until about an hour ago. And while any circumstances under which any of my friends are hurt are awful, but this particular one is even more so.

My friend who was hurt is named M, and the person who hurt him did it by walking away from him because they couldn't handle that fact. I find it absolutely horrible that there are people that are afraid of HIV after all these years and all of the ways to educate yourself about it. I find it absolutely unconscionable that someone would be so unwilling to learn about ways to minimize the risk of infection. I cannot wrap my head around the fact that there are people that would choose fear over education about this. But most of all, my heart breaks for the friend who was hurt by narrowmindedness.