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This is a story of Vivian who lives in a remote village, after her primary school she fell sick and was admitted in the hospital. The sickness became severe to an extent that she needed blood for her to survive. As the case may be, it was so urgent that even the hospital where she was admitted had no blood in their blood bank. A man close to the scene of the event, volunteers to donate blood to the urgency of Vivian situation, the doctor forgot to screen the blood before administering it to her.
After Vivian recovered and went for check up after some months, it was discovered that she was positive and was traced that she got infected through blood transfusion and was asked to visit a nearby clinic for counselling and testing. To her it was the end of the world, how is she going to face people in her community, in the school and even her family members.
The worst happen when Vivian was issued admission in one of the tertiary institution to study management and was asked to undergo a medical check-up in the school before she can be admitted into the school. Knowing her situation she was been scared to go for the test but she summon courage and went and the medical doctor said to her that she can’t be given admission into to the school due to her condition because she will be a bad influence to students in the school. She felt disappointed and was denounced admission for that year. Fortunately, she got admission into another institution and needed to get a forged result declaring she was positive before she got admission into the school by the help of a medical doctor from that community.
Vivian’s case is not exceptional, many other issues have been happening as it regards stigma and discrimination in our society, can we continue in this attitude, why are we chasing people living with HIV/AIDS out from the society? I am of the view that, they should be a measure that kicks against stigma and discrimination in our society and penalties should be given to those who violate the rights of PLWHA in the society with the help of our policy makers to implement this law in this administration.
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