RE: What Is Your Contribution To World AIDS Day 2017?
It's a good way of making aids patients know that despite what they are going through the society has come to accept them and celebrate them.
I remembered when victimisation and stigmatization was on the high side, this I realised made the spread of AIDs really very high and easy because no one wanted to open up so as to avoid being stigmatized and so it was easy to pass around.
There is a woman who works in my mum's office with HIV yet she is living well and taking her ARVs and living a normal life too. It is even better as these drugs has been subsidized by the government.
So a good one to @trendyevents for taking out time to make a lovely cake in order to celebrate AIDs patients. It is necessary AIDs patients know that just like every one they are equally loved.
Nobody likes to be labelled, let alone PLWHAs. So, when they sense that they are being discriminated against, they go into hiding and refuse to disclose their HIV status to anyone. Like you rightly stated the consequence of stigmatization of PLWHAs is higher HIV prevalence rate.
Thank you very much, @gloglo, for this true story which lends credence to the fact that HIV is no longer a death sentence. I also know people who have been on Antiretroviral therapy (Anti-HIV drugs) for about 10 years now and they are still alive! Thanks to the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) too for subsidizing medications for PLWHAs.
Thank you for appreciating @trendyevents for her support and solidarity for PLWAHAs.
The pleasure is all mine. Keep being awesome.
Did you say 10 years and still living? Thats great. It shows that things are getting better.
Now people are more educated and the rate of ignorance reduced, PLWHAs are freer and happy that there are people who cares about their welfare.
Most people do not hide it anymore as long as they are taking their ARVs judiciously .