Here is what every HIV-positive father should give his children
Men are, generally, health slouches. There is need for men living with HIV to take better care of their health, and give their families the protection that only fathers can provide. PHOTO | FILE
Not to water down the importance of women in their children’s lives, but when a father is alive, and alive to the cold harsh facts of HIV, it gives the children hope.
Education is one avenue that will help us achieve a HIV-free generation. And fathers, because they are the heads, should lead from the front.
Having a will does not mean, contrary to what some of us believe, that you are about to die. HIV is manageable. Nowadays, HIV-positive don’t die of HIV-related complications. Personally, I am more afraid of plane crashes and mass murders by terrorists than HIV-related complications.
Hope
In the 80s to mid-90s, before the advent of drugs to prolong lives of HIV-positive people, many families worried about their plight when the man, who was in most cases the sole breadwinner, died of HIV-related complications. Our organisation handled many cases of widows and orphans who were disinherited; some even when the man of the house was on his deathbed.
