Testing and treatment are the outward signs of HIV diagnosis,but the mental impact is too often ignored – as health journalist Charles Pensulo, whose mother died after contracting HIV, and knows from bitter personal experience For years I’ve been reporting on the stories of people affected by and living with HIV. But I’ve never before written about my own yarn – or rather the yarn of my mother.
And then recently one of my friends finally revealed to me,after three years of friendship, that he and his family had also been dealing with HIV. It felt like a blow, or as I truly perceived the extent to which HIV and Aids acquire affected families and communities psychologically in sub-Saharan Africa. We acquire been silent and kept secrets from each other for far too long. We can no longer talk about progress and the future without first opening up and discussing the past.
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Source: guardian.co.uk