Get Tested.

World AIDS Day - Dec 1st 2009

Get Tested.

True the HIV AIDS diagnosis might be very grim,
But delay makes chances of survival very slim,
Don't wait until you are very trim,
Meanwhile put a tourniquet on your every whim,

Walk away from the cowardly culture,
Invest in your future,
Get tested,
Get fear busted,

You might test positive,
But you get a chance to stay mentally positive,
Get the right affordable therapy,
By all standards it is better than chemotherapy,

You might test negative,
Make efforts to never test positive,
Abstain but you if you can't, use a condom,
Be faithful and don't sleep around at random,

Don't be an unbeliever,
You'll regret you were not a believer,
HIV AIDS is real,
Its schemes surreal,

Don't be inert,
Better be alert,
Especially if you are a youngster,
AIDS can be a monster,

Don't embrace the madness peddled around,
It's like fitting a square peg in a hole which is round,
*Sleeping with a virgin is not a cure,
So leave the virgins pure,

Stigma is not an answer,
Love is the answer,
Together lets push back the frontiers of HIV AIDS,
Quicken the coming of the day when only history will tell of HIV AIDS.

* It is erroneously and atrociously believed in some places that people get cured when they sleep with young virgins.

© 2009 Afeseh Ngwa Hilary.