Older family members who are HIV positive can still be role models for the younger children in the family. That secures their place of respect and love in the family
Recently, I was talking
to an AIDS care centre nursing sister on the claims of stigma and
discrimination by PLWHA activists who lay all blame on families.
I told her that
organizations like I Gat Hop have an ongoing
hatred of families and want to show the community that families are to blame
for members who suffer with HIV/AIDS.
I said that loving families respond to loving HIV
sufferers in family with love and acceptance.
She agreed and
suggested that many HIV sufferers have an attitude problem. Blame does not lie
with the families.
Trouble
making HIV sufferers want to be free from families to booze, drink home brew, smoke
marijuana, have sex without a condom and
abuse family members.
They want to come and
go as they like. They do not accept any family discipline. Often they leave the
family but pretend they were thrown out.
The nursing officer says that she sometimes counsels HIV sufferers on the dangers of their life style especially underage sex workers. Foreign lesbians call that stigma and discrimination.
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