Thinking that we are doing some thing good to those neglected and forgotten patients by giving them a second chance of life with HAART....yes, majority of our petients apprciate the chance that HAART provided them! HOWEVER, there is always the other side of the story....
Within this short week after CNY, I have heard 3 bad news about my patients...
- a HIV patient on treatment doing well with HAART for the past 3 years ( with history of systemic fungal infection when he presented, death was so near to him) now was caught in the prison on CNY eve night for robbery crime with pistol!! He is well enough to rob others.... now his HAART is free, yet he needs money and he robbed!! Sigh!!
- anothe HIV patient plan to initiate HAART today did not turn up for appointemtn because he was caught in the prison for breaking into other people house during CNY!! He is not so well, but still plan to rob!!
- the shocking story is this.... I got a call from one of my counselor nurse regarding a man (Muslim) on HAART for the past 3 years, well with CD4 count of more than 600, came to see us 3 years ago diagnosed after the first wife found out to be HIV positive antenatal and from there his second wife also was detected HIV positive, yet they all happily planned a big family with 2 children each, and all the time they had been advised not to conceive anymore....the man feels well, refused to use condom and no contraception at all, claim religion not allowing them to do so! Then here came the shocking news....he married the THIRD wife!! And this time the third wife is referred from OBGYN as HIV positive diagnosed antenatally!! When questioned the lady, she came out with the NOTORIOUS name of the MAN!! Then he came to us and told us off after we asked him why he did so!! He said that he IS GREAT and FEELS GREAT with energy and he plans to marry the fourth wife soon!!! MY goodness! What have I done to create such egoistic monster!! Shall I stop his treatment? Make him ill? Or go to the court to stop this man from marrying the 4th one to prevent an innocent girl form becoming HIV?? WHAT had happened??