The video is a very imaginative in creating awareness on the reality of HIV/AIDS but lacked the completeness of the modern HIV/AIDS message. This message now includes providing accurate information on the mode of transmission of the disease, the process of the disease as well as what options there are for People Living with HIV/AIDS. The latter is serving its purpose of encouraging more people to volunteer for HIV testing and its hopeful consequence of reducing the spread of the virus.
The last time I wrote to convey the reality of HIV/AIDS, I used my personal experience vis-a-vis the emotional ruffle I went through following a needle stick injury while dealing with a patient who turned out to be HIV negative. It was very dramatic and I made it public on Face Book. In response, most of my readers reassured me from Christian religious perspective. Soothing as that was (yours truly has great value in his faith); I thought my readers were less balanced on the issue of HIV/AIDS.
Indeed, as much as I appreciated the good intent of my readers, I am of the opinion that science; in its final position is the application of wisdom of God and that the latter transcends to the socio-economic responses to all the ills that have fallen humanity. For example, the stand that an individual infected with HIV should take ARVs is as Christian as it is scientific.
It is the completeness of information fed to the public that will pave the way for our society achieving her interventional goals in any issue of societal calamity. As someone has said, half of the truth can be more dangerous than an out right lie! So I join in saying:
“Spread the message and not the virus”; but make sure it is the accurate message that is disseminated.
The Video
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