Sex with virgins not cure for HIV/AIDS

Darmang, July 6, GNA - The Mfantseman District HIV/AIDS Co-ordinator, Miss Christine Antor, on Friday said it is not true that having sex with a virgin could cure HIV/AIDS positive people. She attributed the high rate of defilement cases to this notion and cautioned people who believe in it to "stop this wicked act before the law get hold of you". Miss Antor, who is a Nursing Officer, was addressing a durbar organised by the Nkubem Awareness Group, a Saltpond Community Based Organisation (CBO), at Darmang near Anomabo. The CBO with sponsorship from the Ghana AIDS Commission is undertaking an HIV/AIDS sensitisation campaign in four communities in the District.

She advised people to wear gloves or protect their hands with polythene before attending injured persons to prevent "blood to blood" infection. Miss Antor also asked nursing mothers not to allow their babies to be fed on the breast of other women since breast milk was one of the human fluids in which the HIV/AIDS virus survived. Other human fluids are semen and virginal discharge and blood.

She refuted the assertion that the disease could be transmitted through mosquito and other insect bite and advised the people to treat people living with the disease with love and care to prolong their lives. "You can drink and dine with them in one plate or from one cup and even sleep with them but and you will not get the disease, you can only get it through sexual intercourse or blood to blood contact," she said.