Has your sex partner been tested for AIDS?
May 10, 2004
It is hard enough to accept the harsh consequences of our own actions. Think
about how difficult it is to accept a possible death sentence when it isn’t at
all your own doing. Even worse, when it is the fault of the one person you love
more than anyone else.
The United Nations has warned that HIV infections among women in Asia are
soaring. It said that “marriage had proven to be a high risk factor for women
throughout Asia, with many husbands having several extramarital partners and
their wives powerless to object.”
Imagine this: “Girls at school and the wife at home, who were once the lowest
risk group, are now high risk because of the behavior of their husbands and
boyfriends,” said an adviser to the Thai Senate.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said, “In the world as a whole, at least half
of those infected are women, and among people younger than 24, girls and young
women now make up nearby two-thirds of those living with HIV. If these rates of
infection continue, women will soon become the majority of the global total of
people infected.”
U.N.-AIDS deputy executive director Kathleen Cravero said that “Women make up
30 percent of adult infections in Southeast Asia and in some countries this is
fast moving toward 50 percent. One of the biggest factors for this in Asia is
the culture of silence, in which women cannot ask about sex or the sexual
behavior of their partners.”
Scary if your partner is working abroad or is a womanizer. Scary if you don’t
know where he’s been and with whom. I think we have not been serious enough
about the aids problem. Perhaps it is because we don’t know anybody who has
died of the dreaded disease. Or perhaps we think we can get away with high-risk
behavior. There are those who are reckless in their sexual behavior and who
carelessly put themselves at risk of infection.
All it takes is one sexual encounter with an infected person to get you the
deadly virus. Remember too that a person infected by the virus can look healthy
and normal. The virus can lay dormant for 5 to 10 years before it begins to
kill you. You won’t even know you have it for a number of years. But the clock
is ticking and the day is coming when you will begin to feel the ravages of the
virus.
Meanwhile, anyone who has unprotected sex with the infected one risks joining
him as a victim of the deadly disease.
I think it’s time that spouses and girlfriends begin to get more assertive
about the sexual behavior of their men. Their ways could prove deadly to the
innocent and unsuspecting wife or lover.
Worse, he himself may not be aware that he is infected. Aids tests are
available just about everywhere. Why not ask your loved one to be tested? Just
for your peace of mind.
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