Short reflection of prostitution and HIV...
Not a nice place at all. I stayed just a few hours, I don't drink beer and that was the only thing they sold. So I went home and went to bed. Link stayed longer with some other nurses.
There were a lot of prostitutes... scary. We were told that the price for sex is 200 kwatcha ( about 8 norweigian crowns, or 1 dollar).. Horrible. a little more expensive with condom, around 500 Kwatcha (20 norweigan crowns, or 3 dollars). But most people didn't wanna use a condom. They meant that because the ARV:s (HIV-medication) is for free, it doesn't matter if they get HIV.... (????) It is such a horrible way of thinking. If they started charging the ARV:s , people would not afford them and they would die. But when it is for free as of now, people do not take it seriously.... It is so horrible. They don't realise the severity of the illness...
We saw the same lady coming back several times, bringing different men to the back of the house... If she is HIV positive... How many men will be infected by HIV every night?? And the girl her self.. if she miraculously is not HIV positive... How long until she is? It is so horrible to think about it... Let's say she has 10 costumers on one night... And assume that 5 of them gets infected.. Lets say she works 5 days a week.. That is 25 infected every week, by one person. That is 1300 persons per year. from one person. Imagine! How many prostitutes are there in Malawi? Numerous!! Impossible to count. How can we ever stop a disease spreading as rapid as that...? And look at all the orphans running around... Their parents , young men and woman in my age, are dying every day due to this disease. there are so many orphans here! Almost all of them are orphans becasue of HIV. And the children gets born with the disease... Aaa.. If not the people of Malawi realises the severity of HIV, it is unstoppable... No matter what donoring countries are doing. I spoke to to my friend and gardener Wilfred about this issue.. He is a church elder/deacon and he says that the only thing to do is to educate the chiefs in the villages. Cause the people listen to the chiefs more than anyone...
aa now I got sad again... =(
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Well , i dont know what to say , you allready did the math , it is a horrifying number , from what i understand , to educate the chiefs is your best bet , be carefull though , you might not be well recieved by them since you are in a male dominated country. as for the free hiv drugs , a old saying comes to mind , give a man a fish and you feed him for a day , but give him a fishing rod and teach him how to use it and you feed him for a lifetime. information is key. i salute you and your fellow nurses working so hard and far away from home. max respect.
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