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Associated Press - Friday August 1, 2003
She said people with HIV have "everything to live for" ù not only for themselves but for their kids, brothers, sisters or relatives. Watkins and fellow group member Rozanda "Chilli" Thomas are promoting an AIDS education initiative called "Dialogues."
The program is designed to help people get information about HIV and get involved in their own care.
"Every one person is not the same," Watkins told AP Radio. "So you need to be educated if you are positive with HIV to know what questions to ask your doctor." The singers claim they have lost close friends to AIDS.
Watkins said black women, in particular, should be tested because AIDS has spread rapidly among them.
Watkins and Thomas are the surviving members of the group after Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was killed in April 2002.
Lopes, 30, died after her sport utility vehicle crashed in Honduras, where she was on vacation. Thomas and Watkins have decided to continue TLC as a duo. With Lopes, the R&B group sold more than 21 million albums and won four Grammys.
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