AIDS Prevention Messages

These are written on the inside front cover of everyone's consultation book. Hopefully they are effective!? I copied spelling errors too, for more of the "full effect."

1. There is no vaccine and no cure for AIDS. Prevention is the answer.
2. Everybody consider any person who is not your spouse who makes advances towards you for self as a potential HIV carrier.
3. Remember, alcohol consumption gives you false courage to make sexual advances and reduces your ability to control your sexual behavior thus exposing you to HIV infection.
4. Better stay at home with your families after work. This will enhance understanding in your families, reduce impulse spending and reduce your exposure to HIV infection.
5. Men, revise cultures that expose people to HIV infection such as succession rites, "inheriting wives or husbands.
6. Men, do not abandone your wives for a long time to go out in search of money or do not send home your wives when they are pregnant or nusing as this promotes flirting thus accelerating the spread of HIV.
7. Parents, enure that your sons and daughters and their would be spouses undergo pre-marital HIV screening twice before contracting, marriages. The second screening test should be done six months after the first one for confirmation.
8. Parents, do not force your daughters into marriages with persons of your choice because such marriages do not always make provision for pre-marital checks for HIV. Children, listen to your parents' advice.
9. Women, if you are already infected, undergo prenatal screening for HIV and reduce the chances of transmitting HIV to your unborn babies.
10. Please, stop accusing and persecuting innocent members of your families or neighbors for bewitching your relatives who die of AIDS.
11. Please, commit yourselves to the fight against the spread of HIV in our society. Cameroon is dying slowly from AIDS.
12. Please, acquire advice on reproductive health from the nearest health facility to enable you continue with sexual activites during lactation. This will reduce the beliefs that women cannot make love when they are breast feeding.
13. Watch your morals and sex behavior. This will cure the spread of AIDS.