Making a positive choice in your life if you are diagnosed with HIV can relieve a lot of stress and empower other people to make positive choices, whether they are stress or communicating with your sexual partner, as well as disclosing it to family and friends. Some stressors are minor and easy to deal with, while other stressors can be severe and can be overwhelming. For some people, HIV/AIDS may be high on the list of stressors, for others HIV/AIDS may not be the primary stressor in life depending on the individual. Healthy relationships for those living with HIV/AIDS can simply be communicating clearly with someone on a daily basis. But let's put a twist on this: The stress of an individual diagnosed with HIV can be a significant problem in their life if they don't know how to deal with their feelings or communicate their diagnosis as well as simple things like going to visit the doctor to make sure they stay healthy. Using effective communication skills is one way to reduce stress in certain situations. Most people living with HIV do not feel comfortable with others to enhance dialogue about their health status with living with HIV/AIDS. It's easy to say "I" statements just to get started, so that the other individual can improve and acknowledge their feelings and what causes them, which helps control emotions. There are many ways to communicate; however, living with HIV/AIDS makes it stressful to do so in a normalAIDS.gov (2014) stated that “HIV” is an abbreviation for Human Immunodeficiency Virus. To give you a better understanding of what this means, let's break it down. AIDS.gov (2014)3 stated that the “H” stands for “Human”... in the center of the card... with HIV be able to respect their quality of life by providing them with the skills to prevent reinfection and transmission, as well as being proactive in maintaining your health. Implementing healthy relationships will give people who have HIV the skills to create effective disclosure with each other, as well as empower them to make decisions to safely negotiate sex. Positive choices and having healthy relationships are based on the decision of whether or not to disclose an individual's HIV status, which is very popular in reducing the risk of transmitting HIV. Positive choices and healthy relationships are also prevalent among peers who are able to reach out to peers, as well as encouraging a person living with HIV to use the ability to reach out to individuals who are engaging in behaviors sexual activities that put them at risk.