“That’s the problem with you girls wey too read book.
“I doubt it. No spirit filled person will imagine and ask such about another child of God. My children are purified and anointed for supernatural exploits. They will never end up with such evil result. Only carnal people end up with HIV.”“That is not a question to be asked. I refuse to partake in such demonic survey. I consider this conversation over.”
“There are things that are within the control of man that we don’t have to put before God… For God sake, one tests positive, and he is talking about being carnal? Researches indicate persons age15-24 years are the most affected age group. Female undergraduate students are highly vulnerable to contracting the virus and other sexually transmitted diseases mainly because poor access to sexual and reproductive health education and commodities have resulted in low condom use during sexual intercourse.
This was the reaction of Mr. Ehigiator Nosakhare, a taxi driver in Benin city, Edo state. He wasn’t talking about his son. He thinks letting “her” go to school with the virus residing in her is risky. Though no specific gender was referred to in the question posed to him, he automatically felt only a girl-child will test positive to HIV. He would protect others- the school community, by keeping her at home. Questioned about her right to education, he said she will school at home.
Many parents interviewed in Lagos, Ogun, Edo and Delta states respectively as well as the Federal Capital Territory , Abuja, feel ending a child’s education is the only way to curb the spread of HIV. Mary, a trader at the Sapele, joined other parents in saying she would withdraw her child from school for testing positive to HIV.“I won’t allow her go to school if she tests positive for HIV. She will be at home. If contracting it was not of her making , I will look for solution for her.
In countries where there is a good medical referrals system, patients simply go to centres at the new place where they located or wherever they are stranded, and the centers where they are coming from are contacted for verification, then medications are dispensed to them at their new locations.
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