Meaningful Work in Africa - Easy Peasy
Step One
Find a short book about HIV in Africa. Study it.
You should be about to read it and learn the basic issues in about two
hours. You'll get your ABCs to AIDS prevention:
Abstinence
Be Faithful
Wear a Condom
If you can't Abstain, be faithful
to a partner. If you can't be faithful, wear a Condom.
You'll also learn about Mother-To-Child transmission and what can be
done to help.
Step Two
Go to Africa. Make sure you get immunized.
Step Three
Find a village or slum. Tell them about AIDS. Tell them
again. And one more time just for fine.
Step Four
Get people tested. HIV testing strips are very easy to
find and cheap.
Step Five
Get an African HIV counselor to tell the people who are HIV+.
Step Six
Take HIV+ people to a clinic to get the test results confirmed
with a blood test.
Step Seven
Set up things like the following in the village:
- Support Groups
- ARV regiments. (If you read the book, you'll know what ARVs are)
- Exercise programs
- Nutrition programs
Step Eight
Feel the warm glow of satisfaction at a job well done.
One of the many problems with HIV in Africa is that there is just not
enough people doing the above steps. The harvest is large, but the
workers are few. The work is not hard.
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