ARV AND RAPED WOMEN

A major secret in the world seems to be the treatment for raped women with antiretroviral drugs.

There has never been any advertisement in the media in this country telling women that they can protect themselves from HIV infection after rape.

The raped woman must have ARV treatment within 12 hours of rape with a regime of drugs for a month.

At this time, the HIV is still circulating in the blood and not entered any vital organs. The drugs attack the virus in the blood.

But women do not know this. I have talked to classes of high school students on ARV treatment after rape. No student has any idea.

People may be confused. They know that it takes 3 months for the HIV to show up on a test.

Yet they are now told there is treatment within 12 hours after rape and possible infection.

That is true. But the treatment after rape takes place without any test. It is given on the possibility of HIV infection.

If there is no HIV, no harm is done. If there is HIV, a woman has been spared the trauma of infection.

There is a problem that women in isolated areas are unable to travel to a health centre or hospital for treatment.

That is why AIDS Holistics has long raised the possibility that the woman can clean out her vagina with water. Please click:

CAN A WOMAN PROTECT HERSELF?

If women can not get to the hospital in time or has intercourse with a womanising husband every week, it is ethical for us to explore any way she can help herself.

There are those who scorn. There were people who scorned the propositions that the world was round and that infection was caused by germs.