Stigmatization and Discrimination against those Living With HIV/AIDS
Last Updated on Saturday, 08 October 2011 04:18 Written by U.S Immigration News Friday, 07 October 2011 20:27
Few years back, an international Non Governmental Organization on Health and Development had an HIV/AIDS sensitization outreach in Ejigbo, a small town in South West, Nigeria. At the end of the program, several people who expressed willingness to know their HIV/AIDS status were counseled and subsequently tested. An alarming number of them were discovered to be living with the virus. They were therefore taken through series of counseling and assigned to a support group with trained public health workers deployed to help them manage their health condition.
Most of the members of that support group did not make it beyond the year. No doubt majority of who were women, did not die from the virus. They were well aware that they could still live healthily with the virus for many...
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