'Don't punish your husbands''

...they may contract HIV/AIDS

THE PRINCIPAL Nursing Superintendent of the Psychiatric Department of the Ho district hospital, Madam Catherine Gabienu has asked married women to avoid the temptation of wearing pairs of jeans and khaki shorts to bed as a means of punishing their husbands with sex for trivial domestic matters.

This unacceptable behaviour, she noted, tends to send their husbands on amorous missions that normally have disastrous consequences.

Instead, Madam Gabienu advised women to lovingly and cheerfully welcome their husbands back home after a hard day's work, no matter the circumstances.

She gave the advise during the AIDS Awareness Seminar under the auspices of the Teachers Credit Union and the Ghana National Association of Teachers which was attended by about 115 teachers drawn from the Ho district.

The nursing officer noted that promiscuous men and long distant drivers stand the risk of contracting the HIV/AIDS and passing it on to their innocent wives at home since they have opened "embassies" in every town they go.

What is more frightening, she observed, is the rapid spread of the disease since there is no way of determining to see signs of the HIV virus in the faces of the healthy looking carriers.

Madam Gabienu called for stringent measures against amorous teachers who rape or impregnate their female students as a warning to other teachers.

She advised couples against starving their partners socially, financially and sexually since these constitute baits for infidelity from both sides that could expose them to the AIDS virus.