The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission boss Twalib Mbarak has come out to explain how he contracted HIV for a day after taking a Sh700,000 loan in 1987.
While speaking during the EACC partnership withwith saccos, Mbarak said,
“I took a loan of Sh700,000 and I had to be subjected to an HIV test with my wife and I can tell you I was HIV positive for one day…and it was bad,” he said.
In addition he said, “After the test, we went to fill the insurance form. That is why when I see people who are positive I support them and sympathise with them.”
“From the call, we were told it was urgent…we started asking ourselves why we were being called. When we reached home my wife was looking at me and I was looking at her,” he said.
“We never ate, it was bad. We went in the morning and we waited for the doctor..we were already panicking… when we saw the doctor I thought that my blood was found to be ‘dirty’.”
He also noted that those days there were no ARVs, they waited for the doctor to utter a word from the test that they had done.
“We entered the office, then we were told that the insurance form that we had filled was not the right one and that we had to go back and fill another one,” he said.
Mbarak, who left the audience laughing, had to explain that small loans needed a person to undergo a lot of processes to be guaranteed.