Facing the reality of your HIV test results

Even after hospital authorities had told him to go and look for Nevirapine, a drug that is administered to children who are born to HIV positive mothers, because it was out of stock at the hospital then, it did not cross his mind that his wife was HIV positive, probably because he didn't know what the drug was used for. He went to a number of pharmacies to buy this restricted drug all the while unaware that he was buying it to save his child from contracting the HIV virus.

Hospital staff did abide by the confidentiality clause that they are governed by in the medical code of conduct. The lady had told them never to inform her husband that she was HIV positive and why he was looking for the drug. Disclosing a person's HIV status can be a breach of one's rights to confidentiality but medical personnel can encourage someone to disclose their status to their partner or have someone encourage their partner to go for testing.



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