One of our staff, a trained counselor in HIV/AIDS gave a counseling session about the disease and the virus. Children were asked about what they were expecting in the session, and some of the answers were, how one can get infected, how to control the disease, when an infected person can die and many others. The session took one and a half hours and by the end of the session, the children had understood what the disease means and how one can get infected. The other things they learned were, signs and symptoms, prevention measures and discordance.
They asked questions like how come one may be positive while the partner is negative? How many years a person with HIV/AIDS can live? How safe is it to use a condom? All these questions were answered by the counselor. Finally most of the children voluntarily requested to be taken for testing. We have promised to do that in the holiday.
God bless you.
CMU supports orphaned and disadvantaged children in their families around Mukono, Uganda. "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." The Bible, James 1:27
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