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HIV: You Cannot Hide for Long: Fight It from the Very Beginning
By Fayas Ahmed
Aids stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), which causes havoc
on the human immunity system utterly destroys it and leads its victims to sure
death. The first case was detected in the
AIDS totally destroys the human body’s protective mechanism. Still now there is
no effective treatment for AIDS but there are some drugs that are somewhat
effective at a very early stage. AIDS virus can stay in blood for two to ten
years without any symptoms. So it may remain unknown to the victim.
Half of them are women and helpless children. It was mostly witnessed in the
western countries till spread through
A study proved that 80% of the total AIDS cases have spread through sexual
contacts. In
AIDS disease is increasing in neighboring countries day by day as well as
It must be stopped at any cost. In this regard, the media and religious
preachers can play a vital role by increasing awareness among the people. So
far, in rural area most of the people don’t know, what the AIDS is.
It is unlikely that anyone will speak about his or her HIV virus. In fact, it
is unlikely that anyone will even admit to testing positive for the virus.
Man only carries the virus and usually transmits it through sexual contacts,
through unprotected sex and multiple sex partners, and through mixture of AIDS
infected blood in various ways. Children may contact it from their infected
mother. They contact the virus during pregnancy delivery or breast-feeding
periods.
Why? There are two fundamental reasons for such denial and there are the same
in each and every continent. The first reason is emotional, it involves family
and society, and the other reason is practical and concerns livelihood and
material security.
If you are a female and test positive for HIV, you will be labeled “ a bad
woman”, a woman of loose morals who sleeps around, no matter how you have
picked up the virus. If you are male and test positive for HIV, you probably
have picked up the virus from an extramarital affairs or from a prostitute.
These are the social stigma of carrying the virus.
If you are married man wit HIV positive and you don’t wear any protective
device like condom, your wife will become infected. If your wife is pregnant,
nursing a child, she will pass the virus to fetus or the child. To inform your
wife that you are HIV positive is to admit to infidelity, not an easy thing for
anyone to do. These are the familial consequences of carrying the virus.
In practical, the greatest fear of testing HIV positive is the loss of one’s
job. If your wife leaves you for infidelity, you can still feed and clothe and
provide shelter for her and your children. But if the virus also costs your
jobs, you are no good to anyone. Not only that, you are alone.
You are rejected by family, isolated by society, and condemned to a poor,
miserable, lonely death. What kinds of choices are there? More extensively,
there are paralyzing choices.
You should test for the HIV virus if your health has begun to fail. HIV
sufferers need our support, not our abhorrence and negligence. If you have
tested HIV positive, please seek consultation. If it is at an early stage the
virus can be controlled through anti- viral medication. You cannot hide it for
long so you might as well fight from the very beginning while you have a
chance. A fight against the virus can increase your life span.
With HIV infection rates rising and the incurable disease taking 10 years to
kill without treatment, and estimated 18.4 million children will have lost at
least one parent by 2010, according to the UNICEF report released at the 15th
International AIDS conference, on
The
Six nations such as China, Thailand, Brazil, Russia, Nigeria, and Ukrine facing serious HIV/AIDS epidemics have forged a pact
promoting low-cost drugs, officials at the World AIDS Forum, said on 14th
July 2004.
The US Congress has approved US$ 15 billion in January for the president’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which is to provide assistance for treatment
and prevention for 15 countries, including
“We are ashamed that in 2004, some 38 million people are living with HIV/AIDS
and fighting the same battles after two decades,” said the
“Despite all that we have learned about what works in prevention and
treatments, the epidemic is on the rise in every region. We recognized that we
have not done enough to protect people from new infections. We have not done
enough to provide access to afford able treatment and care to all those who
need it.”
For years, action plans have been initiated to curb and prevent this deadly
virus. The West propagates the practice of safe sex, avoidance of risk groups
and condom use in its guest to fight AIDS, but are failing to do so.
On the other hand, Islam provides a simple and effective method of prevention,
which can be found in the Qur’an and Sunnah[1][1]. The 21st century sees the
openly practiced evils of homosexuality, prostitution, fornication and
adultery, which have no doubt exacerbated the spread of the disease.
A Hadith[2][2] of the Prophet (pbuh)
states, “ If fornication and all kinds of sinful sexual intercourse become
rampant and openly practiced without inhibition in any group or nation, God
will punish them with new epidemics and new diseases which were not known to
their forefathers and earlier generations.”
Following the legitimization same sex marriage in
A western Buddhist NGO, in Chiang Mai, the second capital of
AIDS is not only harmful to a single AIDS patient, but it also endangers the
whole community. AIDS is a matter of concern in our country. It will reach
unmanageable proportion makes an effort to educate our illiterate people. This
is no trifling matter and necessary steps should be taken to solve the problem.
Therefore, in order to maintain the spread of AIDS to avoid homosexuality,
prostitution, fornication and adultery, which have no doubt to increase the
spread of the disease. If the disease is at an early stage, the virus can be
controlled through anti-viral medication. So, you cannot hide it for long so
you might as well fight from the very beginning while you have a chance. A
fight against the virus can increase your life span.
It may be mentioned that conscious people believe that the prevention of
AIDS/HIV is possible by maintaining religious norms. ##
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