In 2001 Heads of State and Government Representatives of 189 nations gathered at the first special session of the United Nations General Assembly on HIV/Aids. Since then countries around the world remembers that Day on the First of December of every year, we remember the HIV/ aids patients: men, women and children from around the world.
Our Africa is a continent that is plagued with aids. But what is worse than being People living with HIV/ Aids is the stigma of HIV/Aids patients.
The ignorance about the HIV/Aids and how people contract it whether through unprotected sexual intercourse with various sexual partners, blood transfusion, infected syringes specially among drug addicts or from mother to child if the mother is sick. People are always afraid they may contract aids by being close to aids patients when aids can never be contracted except through body fluids such as blood or semen.
We can never forget Late Princess Diana who broke that stigma when she visited and shook hands with aids patients. She changed the peoples' thoughts and helped in understanding better that people living with aids are just very sick people who needed to be taken care of.
It is very sad to lose friends to aids specially when their parents are too ashamed to admit or say that their son or daughter died of aids because they are afraid what other people might say. I lost two of my friends to aids and it is very painful to see the slow death and detoriation of their health, the failing of their organs and there is nothing you can do to help, but only be there and around to encourage them.
Now there are certain medications that can keep them stable if taken consistently; however, if they stop they deteriorate immediately. In Africa, these medications are only available through certain NGOs and there is never a continous supply which threatens the lives of aids patients. So let us put our voices together and ask for help for these patients who cannot talk for themseleves.
Let us ask for more funds for research centers to work of improving the existing medication and to try and breakthrough for a vaccine that can help people avoid contracting such a killer disease.
Let us ask people not to judge aids patients since they are simply patients and humans who need to be treated. Nobody can be sure who may contract the disease in their families or how.
Let us hope for a healthy world and may God bless and protect us all.
Our Africa is a continent that is plagued with aids. But what is worse than being People living with HIV/ Aids is the stigma of HIV/Aids patients.
The ignorance about the HIV/Aids and how people contract it whether through unprotected sexual intercourse with various sexual partners, blood transfusion, infected syringes specially among drug addicts or from mother to child if the mother is sick. People are always afraid they may contract aids by being close to aids patients when aids can never be contracted except through body fluids such as blood or semen.
We can never forget Late Princess Diana who broke that stigma when she visited and shook hands with aids patients. She changed the peoples' thoughts and helped in understanding better that people living with aids are just very sick people who needed to be taken care of.
It is very sad to lose friends to aids specially when their parents are too ashamed to admit or say that their son or daughter died of aids because they are afraid what other people might say. I lost two of my friends to aids and it is very painful to see the slow death and detoriation of their health, the failing of their organs and there is nothing you can do to help, but only be there and around to encourage them.
Now there are certain medications that can keep them stable if taken consistently; however, if they stop they deteriorate immediately. In Africa, these medications are only available through certain NGOs and there is never a continous supply which threatens the lives of aids patients. So let us put our voices together and ask for help for these patients who cannot talk for themseleves.
Let us ask for more funds for research centers to work of improving the existing medication and to try and breakthrough for a vaccine that can help people avoid contracting such a killer disease.
Let us ask people not to judge aids patients since they are simply patients and humans who need to be treated. Nobody can be sure who may contract the disease in their families or how.
Let us hope for a healthy world and may God bless and protect us all.
i believe that the problem with aids is culutral ignorance mixed with religious stupidity of thought....unless we work on both to creat more scientiific understanding of AIDS, any amount of aid will go to waste
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