The Livingstone District Education Board Secretary (DEBS) says the number of teachers’ deaths due to HIV/AIDS has reduced in the district.
DEBS Trustee Hanguwa said intervention by his office has mainly led to the reduction in deaths among teachers. He said in previous years, the Ministry of Education in the district used to lose about 20 teachers per year to HIV/AIDS. He said the trend has been slowed down and that only about eight to twelve teachers are dying.
Mr. Hanguwa who was in the company of the Assistant Human Resources Management officer, Mbuywana Akatumwa told ZANIS in an interview that teachers living with HIV/AIDS have become open about it and are seeking medical, financial, spiritual, and moral support.
He said his office has organized HIV positive teachers into a support group and assist them whenever they need help. He said the DEBS office is organizing counseling sessions for the group as well as organizing entrepreneur experts to help the teachers venture into money making activities in order to help them have a steady flow of cash to improve on their nutrition.
He said his office is securing market for the support group to sell their merchandise to raise money.
Mr. Hanguwa observed that most of the female teachers are widowed and are in need of financial support to meet their basic and nutritional needs. He said his office is putting measures in place to ensure the HIV positive teaching community live longer and contribute to national development.
And Ms. Akatumwa said the support group has put in place a deliberate policy of befriending teachers that are not wiling to come in the open despite their seemingly HIV positive status.
Ms. Akatumwa said one person is assigned to a suspected HIV positive teacher to persuade such a person to go for voluntary testing and counseling in good time.
She further said HIV positive pupils are also catered for by the DEBS to ensure that they have access to treatment and supplementary feeding programmes in schools.
ZANIS
This disease is a threat to the development & progress of our nation especially in the academic area – DEB is doing well to fight it.
Out of more than six billion people world over cant the convetional medicine cure be found?.This is un believable!!why are the is called interllectuals finding it hard.Then just use holitic treament whatever they call it.
Awe fyaishila abantu kwena
A conventional cure is almost impossible due to the nature of the virus. It is a clever one that keeps on mutating. But they say hope is the last thing to lose. We should put more efforts on prevention programs and support those living with it taking a holistic approach and maintaining their dignity. Stigma and discrimination are the major obstacles in the fight. As for DEBS, thanks for the initiative with positive teachers and pupils.
#2 Mk
The AIDS virus is a
weapon of man—against man. It is a weapon of war, deliberately created inside the top-secret U.S. Chemical and Bacteriological Warfare laboratories at Fort Detrick, Maryland and Los Alamos,New Mexico.
The truth is so horrifying that it is almost impossible to believe, that officials inside the US government, backed by some of the most powerful families on earth, could
be guilty of genocide.
Joke:)) People in the Medical fratenity, exchange your duties with those in engineering just for some few years so as to curb the pandemic:)) ( People would die like no man’s bussiness, i can’t imagine an engineer using foulier analysis of spectrums in trying to find out the viral loads in human bodies… hahahahahaha while holding a screwdriver LOL)
Yes we are all sinners – just try to follow what the lord wants you to do – you shall be saved from the pandemic even after it has taken your body to the grave:). Don’t panic!
Is there any wrong in typing the word S.C.R.E.W DRIVER?