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September 2007

Support people with HIV

C are and support for people
living with HIV is reflected
in one of the scouting
principles: duty to others.
Scout law 3 and 5 encourages
scouts to be helpful and
respectful. Have you been
supportive to people living with
HIV? In what way?

Through discussions, skits and role-

plays, SV journalists said, people
living with HIV need love and care to be
able to live positively with HIV and
AIDS. Living positively means
accepting your situation and taking
care of yourself to avoid re-infection.

Scouts said care and

support involves:
• Talking and playing with them
• Being friends with them
• Donating extra items such as clothes
to those who are needy
• Helping them with work at home and
school
• Reminding those infected to take
their medicine
• Not discriminating them
• Not calling them names
• Giving them morale that they still
have a life
• Telling them to avoid drugs and
practice abstinence
• Offer them opportunities such as
being leaders at school
• Raise awareness to other people on MY POINT IS... Scouts Voice journalists debate on what to present during group work.
how they should be treated This was during the Editorial workshop at Rowallan Scout Camp in Nairobi.

Avoid stigmatizing • Uyu ni carrier also create awareness among other I used to fear people with HIV but now I
language • Hatari people so that they can avoid HIV. We don’t. Even if I had someone with HIV
Stigma refers to saying or doing things • Red wire should help AIDS orphans with things in our class, I would not isolate her. I
that make people feel bad. Some Two years ago I had fears about people like clothes and school fees. We need to will care for them because they need
words or phrases you use may who are HIV positive. But now I have help these people because any of us can love just like us. Naomi Wanjiku,
stigmatise people living with HIV. Avoid got enough knowledge. I know HIV is be infected. If it is not you, and it not 12, Class 7, Myandarua Boarding
some of words when referring to them: not transmitted by sitting near someone your parents, it may be your relative, Pri. Sch.
• HIV victim with HIV, eating with them or being friend or neighbour. Mary Wanjiku,
• Casualty with them in the same class. Now I will Class 8, 13, Maragi Pri. Sch,
• He/she looks positive treat them as brothers and sisters. I will Muranga district.
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Club activity AIDS Poem Jokes

Different people have different views Wewe ni mfupi hadi unafanya
on symptoms and signs of HIV. AIDS is a deadly killer karate kwastove.
From the table below, tick or cross It spares no body A teacher asked a pupil, “This is
the signs you think are correct. Are It affects everybody not your handwriting, who wrote
there other signs you have heard It spreads like fire during for you? Of course I used my
of? Add them to the list. Discuss if mother’s pen to write.
you ticked correctly and why? dry season
It can wipe out a whole Your brother was expelled from
community heaven for seducing angels
SIGNS YES NO
• Loss of weight My brother, my sister, take You are too tall that people ask
• Cough
care for short cuts to reach your head.
Everyday
• Continuous illness
700 people Can yout You are too dirty that the soap
tell tha e
you use complains.
• Having TB die of AIDS
• Diarrhoea Brothers someonby You are too dark that when you
has HIV at
walk you leave black prints
• Loss of appetite and sister, behind.
take care looking?
• Rashes
them You give your hen hot water that
• Dry reddish lips Those who it lays boiled eggs.
• Mood swings have ears Additional Jokes by Mariba, 12,
• Fever I beg you to hear and Juliet 11, Kicoshep P/School.
Funny jokes, aren’t they?
• Herpesezoster
Change your behaviour AWARE: SV journalist Fredrick
Send in more jokes and
AIDS is a monster Wamae advises scouts and non
make SV interesting.
scouts to read Scouts Voice and get
• Mouth sores
facts about HIV prevention.
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