2022 World’s AIDS Day – Send Them To Jail, Don Urges…

2022 World’s AIDS Day –The issue of HIV AIDS continues to be a contentious one even when the condition has ceased to be a death sentence as it were.

However, the stigma on those living with HIV AIDS continues to be an issue.

It is reaction to this, and against the 2022 Worlds AIDS Day that a lecturer, Dr Oluwatoyin Ogunwale has advocated what may sound harsh to some ears.

He is of the opinion that Nigerians who stigmatise those living with it should serve jail terms.

Ogunwale, who is of the Department of Education for Hearing Impairment, Federal College of Special Education, Oyo stated so while speaking today at the 2022 World Aid Day.

The event was organised by Sunshine Nursery and Primary School, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife.

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Speaking against the title:: “HIV/Aids Prevention, Treatment & Care for Individual with Disabilities”, she said commended the school for the initiative,  and for caring and supporting the hearing and speech impaired people living with HIV and AIDS.

Ogunwale who is also the Chairperson, Society for Women and AIDS in Africa has a word for others in society concerning those living with HIV AIDS.

“You should not stigmatise or run away from HIV positive people for anyone that does that will be prosecuted and may end up in jail.

“So there’s no cause for alarm, even pregnant or breastfeeding woman that has HIV and AIDS, and using her drug regularly cannot transmit to the baby,” she said.

She said the objective of the initiative is to help men overcome their reluctance to put their health first by exposing them to a supportive network of other men in similar situations.

2022 World’s AIDS Day 3 – The expert admonished those affected to ensure they got necessary care and remained on treatment, saying once they had been placed on the drug, “they cannot transmit it’’.

Providing her perspective on the issue, Dr Bisi Anyadike, the Proprietress, said: HIV AIDS “is real and government cannot do it alone, so people need to support them’’.

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According to her: “We decided to reach out to them by organising a programme to inform people with HIV and AIDS that they have a better chance,” she said.