Kennydoc:


Bro, let's be realistic here. Some newly infected HIV people go on revenge transmission of the virus. They are counselled against it, but how many heed the counsel? Even simple adherence to the medications is a difficult thing for some. Yes, they can contract more virulent or even drug resistant strains of the virus if they don't protect themselves, but does it really sink? Isn't that part of the reasons why some people still die of AIDS within a few years of diagnosis of HIV, despite the availability of HAART everywhere?
It's not HAART that weakens the immune system, HIV does. What happens is that some people's immune system (CD4 cells) fail to recover even years after commencement of HAART.
As for the 'doc' in my moniker, your opinion doesn't matter. You're free to think whatever you like, as I don't care.

charliejose:
Verbose, yet reeks of ignorance. HIV positive patients that are steadily
on Anti-retroviral therapy can't transmit the virus because of their undectable viral load. The real people spreading the virus are the lots of you that don't know your HIV status, talk more of starting treatment. So, this mistake of a nurse should have channelled her energy to sensitizing people to go for a test not stigmatizing innocent people that go for treatment because they care about their lives and that of others.

charliejose:
Verbose, yet reeks of ignorance. HIV positive patients that are steadily
on Anti-retroviral therapy can't transmit the virus because of their undectable viral load. The real people spreading the virus are the lots of you that don't know your HIV status, talk more of starting treatment. So, this mistake of a nurse should have channelled her energy to sensitizing people to go for a test not stigmatizing innocent people that go for treatment because they care about their lives and that of others.

SultanOfAbia:
I'm Still Searching for the list of the so called patients....

Joromi12:
Team raw

KidsNEXTdoor:
Where are the pictures


You will find out they are all zombies that voted Buhari

davillian:
From what I saw up there she dint expose anyone.
Just an advice ( aids no de show for face) if you no fit hold body use condom.

MrBONE2:


I wonder ooo

charliejose:
Deciding to infect people or not is dependent on the patient - that we can't control. However, it doesn't give anyone the right to stigmatize the many other innocent patients that go for treatment because they really care about their lives - of which is the basis of our argument to start with. You should focus your energy more on the people that don't even know their statuses but unknowningly spread the disease and those not on treatments but knowingly spread the disease - they are the main reason for the increase in infections.

I never said the HAART compromises the immune system. What I said was that the patient's immunity is usually compromised before or just after starting their treatments, and gets better as they continue taking their drugs.

Your comments are evident enough that you are not a doctor. So, it's not my opinion, it's a fact.

Do have a good evening as I won't comment on this again.

Kennydoc:


Maybe you're a clinical student or a newly graduated doctor (that's if you have anything to do with medical training at all), and that's why you feel you've arrived. You make me laugh. What do you know about medicine? Do you really want us to discuss clinical medicine here? Nonsense!

I pointed out something to you and you're talking rubbish. You said people on HAART have undetectable viral load, and I asked you if it happens immediately. Wasn't it obvious to you what I was driving at? That somebody has been started on HAART doesn't mean they are safe or that they will practice safe sex. By the way, there are factors that determine if people will achieve undetectable viral load, and drug adherence is one of them.
The slapping senator was said to have infected his wife while receiving treatment, yet his wife didn't know he was positive. There are many men who get diagnosed and refuse to disclose their status to their spouses and concubines. It's a very common thing seen in PEPFAR clinics.

I was never attempting to condone the nurse's post, cos I don't believe in posting things that happen at work on social media. Even though she intended to remind people that they should be very careful in their sexual activities, as many of the PLWH look healthy physically, she didn't need to talk about her patients.

donaldking10:
misleading headline.

GidiWoodsMan:
What she did is technically wrong. But in a place like Nigeria where the government is yet to criminalise deliberate transmission of HIV, I think I can agree with the point she's trying to make.

Most people quietly start receiving treatment once they learn of their HIV+ status, but at the same time they struggle to infect as many other people as they can as a form of 'revenge'. Some even neglect to tell their future spouses who eventually contract the virus from them and die in ignorance (the 'slapping senator' Ishaku is a case in point.

camobri:

be bold, say it loud, you wanna discriminate and act a judge, what do we expect from a Chriastain. Doc my foot

GidiWoodsMan:
What she did is technically wrong. But in a place like Nigeria where the government is yet to criminalise deliberate transmission of HIV, I think I can agree with the point she's trying to make.

Most people quietly start receiving treatment once they learn of their HIV+ status, but at the same time they struggle to infect as many other people as they can as a form of 'revenge'. Some even neglect to tell their future spouses who eventually contract the virus from them and die in ignorance (the 'slapping senator' Ishaku is a case in point.

linearity:


How is it technically wrong?

She did not expose anyone nor did she divulge any privacy information or the identity of anyone.

In fact, what she said is public knowledge; we all know before the said it that, HIV is not written across one’s forehead and that, with recent advancement of medicine carriers lives normal healthy lives and can pro-create without passing on the virus.

The only new info I think she exposes that, we don’t know before now is that, in her job as a nurse, she administers HIV drugs to patients and we would even infer that to some degree of accuracy without her saying it, because of her occupation of being a Nurse.

One might have argument that, she tend to have a myopic view of HIV patients and have a condescending view about them or a self-patronizing pity.

charliejose:
Verbose, yet reeks of ignorance. HIV positive patients that are steadily
on Anti-retroviral therapy can't transmit the virus because of their undetectable viral load. The real people spreading the virus are the lots of you that don't know your HIV status, talk more of starting treatment. So, this mistake of a nurse should have channelled her energy to sensitizing people to go for a test not stigmatizing innocent people that go for treatment because they care about their lives and that of others.

Kennydoc:
So once a HIV patient is started on HAART, their viral load will immediately become undetectable?

charliejose:
You have a "doc" to your moniker, but I should believe you added that for fun... That's by the way. People that are actively receiving these treatments are even advised to abstain from unprotected sex so as to avoid re-infection or even contracting resistant strains of the virus - they are also at greater risk of contracting other diseases too as their immune system is compromised usually at the beginning of treatment. So, a greater percentage of those that infect people for revenge or whatever are the ones not on treatment. So, worry more about sensitization of people going for test and leave these people going for their treatments alone.

martineverest:
she didn't commit any offence

I really pity this generation....they only read headlines and avoid the main content..I saw this news on instablog9ja this morning.about 99 percent of those that commented only read the headlines without reading the content of the lady's post...she was actually advising the public on STDs

antagonist:
half gist

she actually posted a picture of the people in the hospital

Asquare84:
WHAT HAS SHE DONE WRONG HERE NOW

laudate:

No sir. You are wrong. The fact that a HIV patient is on ARV medication, does not mean his viral load is undetectable. It takes a while before this happens. In some people it could take several months or even years before this happens, after they start their treatment.

The patient will have to be highly disciplined in following a strict drug regimen, and would have to also show up for regular tests in the hospital, to monitor his CD4 count, etc.

So even while taking drugs, the HIV patient can still infect his non-HIV partner, if he does not take adequate precautions.

I have seen HIV patients coming late to the hospital, and they still develop complications like TB and other things, simply because they presented late, or were not compliant with their drug regimen, or those ARV drugs had side effects that caused unforeseen severe reactions in their body. The doctors then conduct more tests, before changing their drug combination.


I wonder, o! Can you imagine what he is saying.. ..

GidiWoodsMan:
What she did is technically wrong. But in a place like Nigeria where the government is yet to criminalise deliberate transmission of HIV, I think I can agree with the point she's trying to make.

Most people quietly start receiving treatment once they learn of their HIV+ status, but at the same time they struggle to infect as many other people as they can as a form of 'revenge'. Some even neglect to tell their future spouses who eventually contract the virus from them and die in ignorance (the 'slapping senator' Ishaku is a case in point.