I carried my daughter to the local health facility and saw
a young lady who I had known for some time. After I left the facility I thought about all that this young lady (whom I will call Annie) had gone through in her 18 odd years. Annie was very intelligent but came from a very poor destitute family. At the age of 14 she got pregnant and was forced to leave school. Next she got married to the father of the baby (a man in his 30s). After the birth of the child she was subjected to physical abuse by her said husband. The end result was that he was incarcerated but before he could make his time he subsequently in prison. So Annie was a widow at 16. The upshot of this was that Annie's husband had died of complications relating to AIDS. Sadly, Annie and her child are now HIV positive. Now Annie has embarked on a wild lifestyle and is having indiscriminate sex with whoever she can. Of course Annie is a young, attractive woman who does not look like she has HIV. Needless to say she does not tell these men that she has HIV, but is spreading the disease far and wide. She has been spoken to about the need to stop what she is doing but still continues to spread herself around. This brings me to the point of having legislation to prosecute those individuals like Annie who are deliberately spreading HIV/AIDS. This should be made a law and should be punishable by summary fines/ incarceration. Undoubtedly Annie may feel cheated knowing that she has HIV/AIDS and that her days are numbered, but the men that she is infecting did not give her HIV. I think that this is the highest irresponsibility. I write this to warn folks out there to be extremely careful of whom they have sexual relations with. Imagine that these men whom Annie had relations with, having relations with other women who in turn have sex with other men....This causes an exponential spread of HIV/AIDS. Think about a few(or many) persons doing likewise and we will have an AIDS epidemic. So be VERY CAREFUL about your sexual lifestyle as AIDS is no respecter of persons. Think about these things.
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