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    "content": "With regard to the HIV/AIDS, I would like to use this House to challenge the civil society and the NGOs that train people on positive living. These bodies should not concentrate their effort in towns. They should go to the rural parts of this country because HIV/AIDS is no longer experienced in urban areas or along the routes frequented by trailers. The HIV/AIDS now affect people in the rural parts of this country and they do not understand it. Most of our population still imagine that HIV/AIDS is witchcraft. Living positively is something that they have never learnt to accept. They cannot even access the ARVs. Information does not reach those people so that they can learn to live positively. The health institutions in the rural areas do not have the ARVs. So, patients have to cover long distances to get them. How do you cover long distances to look for something you do not know? Therefore, I challenge the civil society and the NGOs that deal with those issues to go to the constituency level. They should not just leave it to the Constituency AIDS Control Committees (CACCs) where we have Community Based Organizations (CBOs) in every location that train people and yet they do not know how to disseminate the information because they have not been trained. They do not know how to tell the people to live positively. In fact, if somebody suspects that he or she is beginning to lose weight and it is as a result of being HIV positive, they will even die before they are diagnosed because of stigma. It is the NGOs which partner with the Government to educate the people. I am grateful to see on television many people who are living positively. How I wish these groups could go to the rural areas of this country where there are no televisions so that they can talk to the people on how to live positively with HIV/AIDS. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion. I also want to urge hon. Members to be on the look-out for the implementation. The Back Benchers should put the Government on its toes. I hope my sisters are listening. This is because I want them to keep the Government on toes so that it implements the MDGs which are about women and children."
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