Human immunodeficiency virus or commonly known as HIV is affecting a huge number of people in the world especially in sub-Saharan Africa . There are many mothers affected with HIV in Africa but there are only few who have the courage to fight this disease.
In the talk, Mitchell Besser, a graduate of medicine from the Harvard University Africa specifically the sub-Saharan region. By giving medicine to these people infected with this virus there will be a huge decline in their number. This was tested and proven as stated by Mitchell Besser because according to him there was an eighty percent decline in the number of HIV positive people because of the treatments and medicine given to them. In the talk, Mitchell Besser showed a picture of the world and in that picture it was focused on Africa because of its huge number of HIV positive people. In the second picture Africa was also very eye catchy because of its smallness. The smallness of Africa symbolized that there are very few doctors there that could offer cure or treatment compared to the other countries which has enough doctors to cover their population.
HIV positive mothers in Africa were also called as mentor mothers because they also help other people especially mothers who have HIV. These mentor mothers are being taught by other doctors on how to communicate with other HIV positive people and on how to help them feel hope. They discovered or invented this concept of mentor mothers because there are very few doctors and nurses in Africa that can accommodate the patients and also because of the experience of these mentor mothers. By having an HIV positive person as your mentor can make an HIV positive person feel comfortable because the person they are talking to can relate with them because they also have undergone through the same experience.
There are three main goals of the doctors, nurses, and mentor mothers. First is the PMTCT or the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV. Second is to keep mothers and children healthy, to keep them away from harm, diseases and others. The third one is the empowerment of women in the society.
How do they plan to accomplish these goals? They actually thought of 4 steps.
1.) See the patients one-on-one
- I think that this is quite a good idea because some people aren’t comfortable with talking about their problems in front of many people.
2.) Try to bring in the partners or husbands
- The goal of this is to involve the partners in the treatment and to see if they have been infected too by this virus.
3.) Work in groups
- This is also important because by coming together they can share experience and they can discuss solutions on how to deal with these problems.
4.) Community outreach
- By conducting community outreach programs they can change the community’s beliefs and they can give the people hope.
Three levels of impact:
1.) Mothers and babies
- Attention is given most to the mothers and children because they should be given a chance to live especially the babies and the babies need their mothers to live.
2.) Communities
- The communities are also given attention because if one member of the community is affected then the other community members can also be easily infected.
3.) Health care systems
- The different health care systems should always be updated so that will know what preventive measures they can do.
Hope for the best!
There should always be hope. We should always hope for the best and we should always have faith in the Lord because nothing is impossible with God.
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