Today,
Uganda’s president made the decision to publically get tested for HIV to
encourage the people that were untested to do the same. This was interesting
due to the fact that no official leaders have been tested publically despite
the fact that health officials have made the suggestion. The goal is to test
fifteen million people by the end of 2014. The president was tested publically
to help them reach that difficult goal. According to health officials in Uganda,
more married couples are ending up with AIDs due to the fact that they have
secrete partners. Getting tested is an important step to preventing further
infections and decreasing the number of infected people. In the past, Uganda
had the reputation for putting the ABC policy in place which meant Abstain, be faithful, or use condoms. Due to the
increase of people who have HIV, Uganda is focusing more on the treatment
rather than the prevention of HIV.
In the
world today, there are so many people that don’t know their status when it
comes to getting tested for HIV/AIDS. When I saw that more married couples are
found with AIDS it was a shock to me because in America, Secret partners are
not acceptable. The fact that a leader publically got tested was a way for him
to encourage the people in Uganda to find out their status. In any society, the
people usually follow in the footsteps of famous people. When Beyonce cut her
hair off, many girls followed behind her. When the leader got tested today
publically, it was intended to have that same effect that Beyonce’s hair cut
did. If the people know that a politically leader that is admired is getting
tested, they will follow suite and find out their status as well. This method
was done with the hopes that the percentage of those that are already infected
with AID/HIV would ultimately decrease. Another hope was that the number of
people in Uganda that didn’t know their status would feel motivated to get
tested.
11/08/13
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