HIV/AIDS TRADITIONAL NIGHTMARES–Part 2
6 min read“The local population fears it but do not want to prevent it. It’s quite creepy seeing people craving what they loathe and fear most”
By KON Joseph Leek, JUBA, South Sudan
September 21, 2015 (SSB) — Girls should know more about sex especially when they should have it, with whom and at what time using what, and where
Parents should give advice to their girls just as it used to be in the past. Nor should it be only the parents but other family members like uncles, aunts etc are as well vital to give advice to the girls
Whatever has made us forget these traditional customs/rules! Should it be war trauma or numerous jou and arandayat (bars and pubs) that are opened from morning to evening?!
We cannot rely on our own South Sudan HIV/AIDS commission for it is sleeping. The only hardest work it is comfortable of doing and indeed is excelling, is to put posters and billboards written on them “HIV/AIDS is a killer disease” and blah blah blah….. Especially towards World AIDS’ day – which posters are only found in urban areas?
It (HIV/AIDs Commission) is either too lazy to sensitize the mass up to the grass root level, or do not know what to do or they are too busy eating the money allotted to the AIDs Commission every yearly budget
To me, AIDs commission of South Sudan is busy snoring or too dizzy that it is failing to identify what is taking place around it
So, it is better woken to stay fully all eyes opened before it is too late or the high office change the commissioner together with all her snoring acolytes and give chance to a saving, hardworking person to take this great nation out of the bondage of such deadly-fast-climbing infection
As I put it in part one of this article, local people are aware of HIV but they believe it to have nothing to do with villagers, they think that HIV/AIDs is connected with urbanization, foreigners and bad behaviors and therefore if you talk of HIV/AIDs in their company they connect you with nyabos and wewes straight
They (locals) are certainly sure because when they hear of someone whom HIV/AIDs is too much on his neck, they hear them transferred for treatment to the East African cities of Kampala and Nairobi, so they believe that the sickness comes from where it is treated
This need a serious governmental interference of not employing people who do not seemed to care in such sensitive positions but real people who believe in real life
To speak the truth, these nyabos and wewes most indigenous South Sudanese believes to be HIV/AIDs possessed are the safe ones in comparison to our home-girls.
These alien prostitutes and our own – are prostitutes not because they love sex most, not even is there any evil spirit driving them into such immoral act but hard-life is the one doing that.
There is a story of a widowed-woman who educated his son until he finished his pharmaceutical degree at the university level. The boy became successful; he had clinics and pharmacies.
One day, while at one of her son’s clinics, the prostitutes decided to sit under the shade of one of the trees at the compound that clinic was situated, Something which annoyed the pharmacist who then hurled a lot of obscene abuses at them. He was rotating the abuses around the private parts from down, middle to top. Then, from rotten to smells like sewage smell and other shocking cruelty and subsequently chased them away like they were worse of the world – something which prompted his mother to cry terribly.
After he was done with prostitutes, the boy came to his mother to inquire what appalling thing he did which made her cry, “I have been in this dreadful job for 30 years not because I love it but because I love you, she replied sobbing, “I wanted you to be successful like you are today, not to be like me again, such that your children are not going to be like myself – and now, you are talking to them and chasing them like they are the world’s excess baggage!” she concluded
Because the boy was criticizing and acting like an arrogant king, it would have been better to have first asked before he acted. Since then, the boy has never acted arrogantly; he started seeing them like his own aunts
Most of those prostitutes you see are not HIV possessed as many could think and could not want to do it without control and are doing that with care for they are driven to that by life like the mother to the pharmacist I have talked about above.
To some extent, they cannot accept to sleep with you minus condom because of self control unless you use a gun
But these local girls of ours who suspect you to be a HIV victim whenever you mention condom are the worse ones who are wildly spreading the disease from urban areas to the rural areas, and it is ignorance doing that
And our primitive, ignorant self-proclaim educated and local boys are also doing their part of killing themselves hurriedly by applying to their local girls and thereafter sleep with them when they do not even know their statuses and without condoms as well
Well, the fact that most of these alien prostitutes are not safe enough cannot be denied and they have infected many with HIV/AIDs here in Juba. They are illegally running their immorality act here from day one early before independence and the government has been turning blank eye since then and there seemed to be no hope of them being send out of this country soon – the country has more crises than just sexual immorality anyway but where was it (the government) early before these crises?
Should we import everything including prostitution? Don’t we have our prostitutes? Better we get infected by our prostitutes who were forced in to that job by life instead of dealing with alien prostitutes who joined after they were tested positive and would want to infect more
If we want to maintain these foreign prostitutes then we better handle them as assets by quarantining them, test them and then tax them monthly in order to generate income to the nation
The writer is a journalist and a commentator on contemporary South Sudan, he can be reached on j.konleek@gmail.com
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