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Caring for people with HIV

W hat would you do for someone living with HIV? What difference
do you think you can make in their lives? If you had HIV, how
would you want to be treated? If you think about people with HIV as if
it were you, this is called empathy.

When you are empathetic you: tested HIV positive. But I know there
• Do not judge people with HIV could be some children infected. I
and AIDS always tell children to show love to
• Handle them as you would one another all the time.
want to be handled.

Daisy Drateru, 10, P6, Kinyara

Club Activity:
Sugar Works Pri. Sch says: In your Scouts Voice
Club discuss: SV Journalists Ivan Agaba
We should learn to share things like The card was written by SV presenting during the SV
food with those who have HIV. There •What is empathy? journalist Monica Akao to a girl training
are some parents who throw away •How would you want called Mary who is sick with
children with HIV and AIDS. This is AIDS. Gifts such as cards can
to be treated if you make People living with HIV feel I helped my mother
wrong. I ask school children to inform
adults if they see children who have
had HIV and AIDS? better. My mother began falling ill all the
•How is HIV time. I advised her to go for an HIV
been thrown away by their parents.
transmitted? Dictionary: test. She was very worried how she
Interviewing: Asking questions would leave us if she died. One day a
As a leader, I tell pupils to show love •How is HIV not friend of hers called Mary came to
to people living with HIV. Here at Various: Many
transmitted? Worry: feeling disturbed visit her and advised her to stop
school I have not known who has worrying because she was not the
only one with HIV and AIDS. Al-
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though I was five years old, I used to
help her by washing her clothes,
bathe my sister and cook food. My
mother took courage and joined
TASO. She was given various assist-
ance like food. She later died in
1996. Acio Laura Maureen,
Atapara SS, Oyam
Most people with HIV and
AIDS worry about the future.
THIS IS WHAT WE DO... When you care, you help them
HERE WE ARE: Pupils of Mandera Beatrice an SV reduce on their worries and
WE LIKE IT: Pupils of Masindi Army live longer.
Boarding Pri. Sch reading Scouts Kinyara Sugar Works Pri. Sch journalist from Masindi
Voice newspaper during a visit by Scouts Voice interviewing a pupil of
journalists Masindi Pri. Sch
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How would you treat a person with HIV? club activity:
Do you know what
Avoid bad language When you use bad/abusive Be careful: the scout sign
Kingera Emmanuel, 14, P7, Although we need to show love and means? Do you
language you make people care to people with HIV, you should
Kinyara Sugar Works Pri. Sch know what
with HIV feel bad. avoid sharing sharp instruments that each finger
Says there was an orphan girl in
their community called Akello. She This is called stigma. pierce the skin like razorblades, represents?
was born with HIV in 1999. She is Avoid name calling. Do needles. If you share these instruments, Discuss
now in P3. She fears being with her you may end up getting infected with about it in
not refer to HIV positive HIV. Abstain from sex to avoid getting
friends because they use bad your SV
people as: and spreading HIV. club and
language to her. They also do not like
• HIV victim send the
sharing their things with her.
• Casualties Rehema answers to
• He/she looks positive Namunyega a Scouts Voice
Also the person who takes care of
• Carrier P7 Pupil of P.O. Box 22366
Akello does not like her. She always
• Danger Kinyara Works Kampala. Best
thinks about her dead parents. She
would always tell her: “Akello, Pri. School answers will be
Akello, do you want to transmit your HIV is not says God is published in the
disease to my children?” She would transmitted through: love and those next Scouts
call her rubbish. Akello would cry. • Shaking hands who love Voice issue.
Acomo Scovia, 13, Dogapio PS, • Sharing plates or cups others love
Oyam and Ochokoru Juliet • Sharing toilets God
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Tell us about how to treat people with HIV....

TELL US WHAT HAPPENED:.... SV

KINYARA SUGAR WORKS PRI. MASINDI AMRY BOARDING PRI. KINYARA SUGAR WORKS PRI. SCH: journalist Brian Mucunguzi and
SCh.... SV Journalists Job SCH: SV journalists Beatrice SV Journalists Juliet Ochokuru (left) Ojok Moris interviewing a pupil
Talemwa and Tadeo Isingoma Mandera and Lawrence Amanya and Winnie Acom (right) interview Hillary Kamugisha of Kinyara
getting their story (left) during an interview Kinyera Emmanuel (Centre) Sugar Works Pri. Sch.
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