1,2,3... Action!

HIV doesn’t make a grand, loud, entrance. Instead, it enters, (invades feels more like it) one’s system humbly, privately, silently, without notice or warning. And unlike a computer, once in the system, you can’t undo.

By contrast, its results are very loud, very public. It comes like a raindrop but devastates like a tsunami. Sometimes I muse whether it is not a disease with a mind of its own, bent on conquest and outwitting human kind. Human kind has conquered almost everything on planet earth, but isn’t it ironic how a small, tiny virus has left geniuses dumbfounded and the best among us in a helpless state. Sometimes when someone dies, it feels like HIV is looking down at them their casket, laughing away like that clown in Batman.

Anyway, that part of the emotional baggage that comes with the condition, whether we like it or not. And it’s no joke, I am very much sober. Don’t you think then, that pastors should lead in the fight against AIDS by disclosing their own statuses? Given the fact that HIV continues to mow down people, in and out of church, I think its time to take the bull by the horns, beginning with our leaders and in the church these are pastors.

Come to think of it, those Islamic countries have very low rates of AIDS, why do you think this is so? It’s because they are action oriented! You fornicate, you die! (Yeah, there are needles and all but sex is the danger skelemu). It’s very simple but it’s working. Look at us civilised, democratic nations, how much money have we spent on expensive conferences, food and awareness campaigns. Yet we continue to waste away.

I think its time to take a leaf from our Islamic brothers and sisters. Action is the way forward. No more conferences. No more nice food and pity parties where we try to come up with complex solutions to simple problems. And you know why these NGOs and governments will not tell you that I AIDS yiteam encane? It’s because AIDS is big business, give people the solution and donor funds will dry up. So, ladies and gentleman, there you have it, AIDS DEMYSTIFIED. Drastic situations call for drastic measures. Action now! Beginning with our pastors!