Turning the tide
There is good justification to prioritise services for women and the children they bear and care for. But to stem the tide of the HIV pandemic, men must be included.
We are not advocating that there needs be an equal number of health services for men. Instead, we propose that more must be done for men than is currently offered.
The international community has done a great deal to keep women and their children alive through the AIDS epidemic. It should not continue to overlook their husbands and fathers.
Dedicated male-friendly HIV services are needed. The alternative scenario is dismal. Sons will continue to wheel their skeletal fathers to “death wards”, where they die of something that could have been managed. Men’s use of health services can be improved – we have seen it happen for women.
Article Appeared @https://theconversation.com/dying-from-a-treatable-disease-hiv-and-the-men-we-neglect-55176