This report could have only been written by AIDS Holistics and no other in this country.
As the years roll on, the AIDS scene is changing. There is now zero information in the media on living with HIV/AIDS. But it was always like that. The only practical advice in this country came from AIDS Holistics. Please click:
faith, hope, peace, love, truth, compassion, trust, patience, honesty, kindness, family, friends, forgiveness, fellowship, work, sleep, exercise, relax, clean water, morning sun, nutritious food, lean meat, fresh vegetables, fruit, grains and nuts, rights, responsibilities, obligations, clean blood and tissues, clean in body, mind and soul AND FREEDOM FROM hate, greed, fear, stress, violence, rejection, dehydration, infection, suffocation, starvation, beer, home brew, tobacco, marijuana.nd drugs
As the years roll on, the AIDS scene is changing. There is now zero information in the media on living with HIV/AIDS. But it was always like that. The only practical advice in this country came from AIDS Holistics. Please click:
faith, hope, peace, love, truth, compassion, trust, patience, honesty, kindness, family, friends, forgiveness, fellowship, work, sleep, exercise, relax, clean water, morning sun, nutritious food, lean meat, fresh vegetables, fruit, grains and nuts, rights, responsibilities, obligations, clean blood and tissues, clean in body, mind and soul AND FREEDOM FROM hate, greed, fear, stress, violence, rejection, dehydration, infection, suffocation, starvation, beer, home brew, tobacco, marijuana.nd drugs
Now with the reduction in funding, the number of care groups has dropped. The availability of ART has meant that the message is limited to antiretroviral medication safety.
Take your dosage at the same time every day as directed. If you miss out, do not take a double dosage. Just leave it until the next laid down time but do not make a habit of missing out. Seek resupply early before your supplies are depleted. Do not leave breaks in your dosage regime when your supplies run out. Do not risk viral immunity. Take Septrin or other antibiotics to prevent infection with gut bacteria and diarrhoea. Do not have unprotected sex.
The evil propaganda seems to have died. We were being told that people suffering from HIV are rejected and discriminated against by family and faced with stigma.
There were groups that claimed that family was the enemy in rejecting loved ones. This was probably exaggeration or totally false. It also depended on the behaviour of the infected loved one.
There were those living with HIV/AIDS who claimed publicly that they were rejected by family but they were HIV positive and violent drunks who disrupted and horrified family members particularly the children.
But these were problems in early days. With no ARV, sufferers lived the maximum of 12 years with Positive Living. Without this, they died much earlier if they also suffered stress and fear.
Towards the end of their lives, they horrified their family with the onset of dementia. Some became hysterical and feared being killed by evil spirits.
I cared for Linda in 2001-2003 and she was terrified that an old Samarai lady was going to kill her, having changed into a black bird and sat in a tree outside the house at night. This was the time before ARV drugs were available.
There are still sufferers in rural areas not on ARV who will face the same decline in mental health. The onset of dementia has the danger for families in believing their demented loved one had been struck down by sorcery. Someone will have to be blamed and killed.
But these days, the HIV/AIDS scene has gone quiet. Most HIV sufferers are living with their families and carrying on their lives, not quite the same as before.
Many gay boys and transsexuals who flocked to the towns have decided that family is the place to be. They now live in peace with families. There is no future in seeking a living having sex with expatriate men and running the risk of being infected with HIV.
There is no longer the media propaganda by gay and lesbian groups. Most of these expatriates have gone back to Australia. There is no longer the message that all women are abused and all men are violent. The reality is more complex than that.
There are loving men who look after families just as there are loving women. Some women are violent and spend their time phoning boy friends on their mobile phones, drinking beer and home brew, bashing husbands and playing cards.
Now that HIV infected people are returning almost to normal, they are living full lives and may plan to marry. Can an HIV positive man marry an HIV negative woman? He has to tell her his status before the relationship begins. The choice to marry belongs to the other person.
He must use a condom. ARV drugs may not produce a zero viral count particularly if the person has defaulted on the medication.
Can the woman be made pregnant? She must be advised of the procedure to be strictly adhered to.
When the HIV positive man has sex to make a woman pregnant, he will not use a condom. But then the woman has to start her own ARV treatment on the assumption that she will be infected.
This has to be done early like the treatment for any raped woman. This continues for at least 30 days with the man returning to condoms. This can be dangerous. The woman needs to have her status checked by a doctor at regular intervals. The couple must consult a doctor on this.
Another option for the man is to marry an HIV positive woman. But how does he do that? Does he reveal status and ask if the other person is HIV positive too? The key goal is for the HIV negative or HIV positive woman to give birth to a baby who is HIV negative.
He/she will lose many partners that way. Perhaps a partner will be found at an AIDS care group. But the man or woman may not want to go there. Being HIV positive still brings problems but at least the sufferer no longer dies with dementia.
Reports indicate that over the last decade the numbers of gay men infected with HIV have risen exponentially across world. There may be several reasons for this.
Other reports show that many gay men do not reveal their HIV status to their partners. Others may be HIV positive and on ARV drugs. They do not use a condom while their viral load may not be at zero. They have been careless with their medication and will infect other men.
Many gay men have anal and oral sex and ingest gut parasite eggs to breed in the epithelial lining of the gut. They die early in life the result of gut parasite infection.
There were groups that claimed that family was the enemy in rejecting loved ones. This was probably exaggeration or totally false. It also depended on the behaviour of the infected loved one.
There were those living with HIV/AIDS who claimed publicly that they were rejected by family but they were HIV positive and violent drunks who disrupted and horrified family members particularly the children.
But these were problems in early days. With no ARV, sufferers lived the maximum of 12 years with Positive Living. Without this, they died much earlier if they also suffered stress and fear.
Towards the end of their lives, they horrified their family with the onset of dementia. Some became hysterical and feared being killed by evil spirits.
I cared for Linda in 2001-2003 and she was terrified that an old Samarai lady was going to kill her, having changed into a black bird and sat in a tree outside the house at night. This was the time before ARV drugs were available.
There are still sufferers in rural areas not on ARV who will face the same decline in mental health. The onset of dementia has the danger for families in believing their demented loved one had been struck down by sorcery. Someone will have to be blamed and killed.
But these days, the HIV/AIDS scene has gone quiet. Most HIV sufferers are living with their families and carrying on their lives, not quite the same as before.
Many gay boys and transsexuals who flocked to the towns have decided that family is the place to be. They now live in peace with families. There is no future in seeking a living having sex with expatriate men and running the risk of being infected with HIV.
There is no longer the media propaganda by gay and lesbian groups. Most of these expatriates have gone back to Australia. There is no longer the message that all women are abused and all men are violent. The reality is more complex than that.
There are loving men who look after families just as there are loving women. Some women are violent and spend their time phoning boy friends on their mobile phones, drinking beer and home brew, bashing husbands and playing cards.
Now that HIV infected people are returning almost to normal, they are living full lives and may plan to marry. Can an HIV positive man marry an HIV negative woman? He has to tell her his status before the relationship begins. The choice to marry belongs to the other person.
He must use a condom. ARV drugs may not produce a zero viral count particularly if the person has defaulted on the medication.
Can the woman be made pregnant? She must be advised of the procedure to be strictly adhered to.
When the HIV positive man has sex to make a woman pregnant, he will not use a condom. But then the woman has to start her own ARV treatment on the assumption that she will be infected.
This has to be done early like the treatment for any raped woman. This continues for at least 30 days with the man returning to condoms. This can be dangerous. The woman needs to have her status checked by a doctor at regular intervals. The couple must consult a doctor on this.
Another option for the man is to marry an HIV positive woman. But how does he do that? Does he reveal status and ask if the other person is HIV positive too? The key goal is for the HIV negative or HIV positive woman to give birth to a baby who is HIV negative.
He/she will lose many partners that way. Perhaps a partner will be found at an AIDS care group. But the man or woman may not want to go there. Being HIV positive still brings problems but at least the sufferer no longer dies with dementia.
Reports indicate that over the last decade the numbers of gay men infected with HIV have risen exponentially across world. There may be several reasons for this.
Other reports show that many gay men do not reveal their HIV status to their partners. Others may be HIV positive and on ARV drugs. They do not use a condom while their viral load may not be at zero. They have been careless with their medication and will infect other men.
Many gay men have anal and oral sex and ingest gut parasite eggs to breed in the epithelial lining of the gut. They die early in life the result of gut parasite infection.
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