Living with HIV

This Lesson:

• Teaches how HIV is spread, how to prevent it and how to cope if you have the disease.
• The viewer is advised to visit their local health centre and get tested if they have any concerns.
• Teaches how to cope with HIV by confiding in someone and also by ensuring the person with HIV stays healthy through eating good food and drinking clean water.
• Highlights that although HIV is incurable, a sufferer can take medicine to help fight off other illnesses which might attack their weakened immune system.
• Emphasises that it is still possible to lead a normal life and earn a living even if they have HIV.
• Discussing and raising awareness of HIV is a vital way of ending discrimination and common misconceptions about the disease.
• This lesson is part of a series of lessons on HIV/AIDS.