Okello Herbert Andrew
1st December brings us closer to Christmas and marks the beginning of festivities. However it’s also the global AIDS day. Every year the world on the 1st of December, “celebrates” the Aids day. Each of us has been affected by AIDS either directly or indirectly, we know of a friend orphaned by AIDS, we know of a victim, we know of the impacts of AIDS on society.
Aids lives among us, it’s everywhere. The unfortunate victims are normal people, sick yes but they are just like you and I they deserve a chance to live and find meaning out of life.
There’s a way of ending the scourge; knowing your status. Being positive doesn’t mean death ARVs are freely available to enable you live a normal life.
Very many University students hold a rather unfortunate misconception about testing. They’re are unsure about how they’d react to the realization of being found positive. It’s mainly attributed in the sexual network. That house party when you got drunk and ended up sleeping with that girl without protection. That cold night, it rained so hard you decided to go live for you couldn’t go in the rain for protection. That dark night you fumbled and wore the condom wrong and you realized it had broken midway. All these circumstances among others prevent university students from testing, the fear of reality dawning on them and the fact that it would mean the ‘end’ of their lives is a grave misdirection.
There’s no way we are going to kick AIDS out of university without knowing our status. Knowledge is power, proper counselling is sufficient to empower you. Being positive takes nothing from you. Revenge spread of AIDS isn’t just right, instead direct your energy in productive ventures.
Use a condom, rightly and always, faithfulness is paramount and abstinence is cool. Take those drugs, how are we going to change this world without you taking your medication. An HIV free campus starts with you.
We are getting to zero and we are part of the army against the monster, we are happy people. AIDS can’t take away our happiness …
We don’t have to discriminate against the unfortunate ones, we need to give them a reason to smile a reason to push on, we need to fight the stigma. An AIDS FREE campus STARTS WITH you.
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