Like king soul who needed David’s music to quiet the demons in his head, I needed a physician to sooth my stress and make me happy despite of my in born HIV/ AIDS disease.
I come from Bweyogerere about 3 hours walk from Wakiso town. At 20 months, I was brought to Mulago hospital with muscle wasting, wounds and abscesses from injections all over the body.
I was then accessed by a team of health workers at the hospital after seeing my weight (4.1kg) less than half the normal weight of a child. Therefore I was diagnosed with severe malnutrition, tuberculosis, malaria and HIV/AIDS.
I had no hope of survival since my mother was abandoned by her husband and family members because of HIV which she got at the age of 17. Fortunately the health workers did all they could to restore my health. Indeed they fed us and I realized it was not HIV/AIDS, but instead it was stress and lack of food that was going to massacred my life.
Today, am very proud to say to you that the wounds have been healed, no long think about death and fortunately of all I have gained weight.
“HIV/AIDS too many people’s consciousness is a killer disease and that is why people affected fill isolated out of the society, but they are human beings who need to be given peace of mind and love”.
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