TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR HIV SURVIVOR, Ainsley Reid believes that living with the virus requires a new outlook.
This, he said, was why it is important that enabling environments are created for such people. Speaking at the launch of Regional Testing Day (RTD) held at Hilton Barbados in Needham’s Point, St Michael, yesterday, Reid indicated the benefits of Barbados adopting a training programme to help survivors to be better able to manage their new lives.
Reid was diagnosed HIV positive in 1992 and he said that today he was able to manage his status well because of several reasons, specifically because of the aforementioned enabling environment and education on the virus and effects.
Coordinator of Jamaica’s Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV & AIDS (GIPA), he maintained that sensitising people about the importance of HIV testing is important and necessary but after they are tested, they needed to know what was next. (SDB Media)
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