Friday, 30 March 2012

HIV AND AIDS CAMPAIGNS



HIV and AIDS Campaigns plays an impact in people`s lives because they help promote public Education about these disease, they raise awareness for people to be aware that this disease exist, it also promote openness about AIDS and people living with it so as to give them support and care and helps to motivate other people to get involved to support the community care for orphans.

Most companies address this issue of HIV and AIDS in their Organisation because HIV and AIDS is one of the biggest challeges we face as a country. The rate of infections is rapidly increasing and more and more people are getting ill and dying of AIDS.

Of all people living with AIDS in the world, it is estimated that 6 out of 10 men, 8 out of 10 women and 9 out of every children live in Sub-Saharan Africa. South Africa is one of the fastest growing rates of infections in the world so this HIV and AIDS Campaigns is to create awareness and reache out to people to educate and inform those who don`t know or understand what HIV and AIDS is all about, how it affects a human body and how to protect your self from getting infected bacause people who are likely to get infected are Tranport workers, Sex workers and migrant and mine workers because they dont get taught about this disease.
http://www.etu.org.za/toolbox/docs/organise/webaids.html



Friday, 23 March 2012

CONDOMS AVAILABILITY IN SCHOOLS.



Thereis a higher rate of  HIV infections amongst students and learners in schools,particularly yhose in high schools and universities. In high schools learners are not fully educated about HIV/AIDS in the sense that parents and teachers lack bacis knowledge of  HIV/AIDS and Condoms,so they are ashamed to talk to learners about what HIV/AIDS is, how it affects a human body and the consequences of unsafe Sex. They feel that condom availability would promote sexual activity and undermine traditional values. In Universities Students are ignorant to know more about HIV/AIDS and get tested to know their health status. Do you think condom availability in schools will help reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS amongst Students and Leraners?  http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000006

HIV/AIDS infections amongst Students and Learners is caused by lack of information and lack of the necessary materials to practice safe sex and get educated about the importance of condoms and how to use them. Research shows that Students and Learners becom infected at the age of 16 and 17 because they are in the age were they become sexually active because they have reached puberty and being controlled by the drive to "Experiment".

The Government have launched awareness campaigns of educating Learners, Students and the Communities they live in more about HIV/AIDS, the use of Condoms and the importance of safer sex. Nurses and Councellors are available in Clinics to talk to people and educate them about this killer disease and that will make it easier for them to open up and ask questions on one on one and by that education will help reduce the spreads of HIV amongst Learners and Students in schools.

Friday, 16 March 2012

THE IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON EDUCATION AND POVERTY.




HIV/AIDS has a negative impact on our standards of living and education in the sense that it affects the demand for and supply of education. Lack of education spread the circle between HIV/AIDS and Poverty, often raising from decisions concerning schooling, child-bearing, finances and unemployment. A number of studies have measured some of this negative outcomes which suggest that there major inter-generational consequences of households coping strategies.

Orphaned children are either droping out of school or not enrolled at all due to the financial contraints of their affected families, and have assume responsibilities of heading or providing for households, in this situation girls are more helpless.

HIV/AIDS is a disease og poverty and it make it clear that poor or disadvantaged people are most likely to be infected and that create a gap between the rich and the poor. The first and the worst impact of HIV/ADIS on Poverty is at the individual and households level. It is amongst the worst diseases because its victims are ill for a long period of time before they die.

Friday, 9 March 2012

STOP AND PREVENT THE SPREAD OF HIV/AIDS



It is our responsibility to take care of ourselves and our health by knowing our health status so as to stop and prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS pandemic. since the discovery of the virus almost 30 years ago, millions of people throughout the world have been infected with HIV, most are adults and some kids and teens are also infected by HIV too. In the world today, AIDS remains an epidemic which means that it affects a large number of people and continues to spread rapidly
.http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/stds/std_hiv.html

The disease is a major health problem in many parts of the world. Genetic research indicates that HIV originated in West-central Africa during the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. AIDS was first recognised by the U.S centers for diseases control and pevention in 1981 and, its cause identified in the early 1980s. In 2009 the World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated a number of milions of people living with this disease. An estimation of 5.6 million people who were living with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. It is also estimated that 310,000 South Africans died of AIDS and most of which are parents.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/stds/std_hiv.html

Most children lost their parents and become orphans because of this killer disease. The loss of parent not only had an huge emotional impact on children but for most families can suffer financially. Looking at the estimation number of AIDS orphans in South Africa where one or both parents are deceased is 1.9 million and HIV/AIDS pandemic is responsible for the deaths and it cause orphans to put pressure on their relatives who becomes their primary carers to relocate from their familiar neighbourhood, and simblings may be split apart and all of which can harm their development.



Making a change in South Africa`s history of HIV, the South African government launched a number of large scale communication campaigns related to raising awareness of HIV/AIDS such as HIV Counselling and Testing campaign (HCT) as well as broader health-related issues. Since it implementation it has had a notable on the availability and influen of HIV testing and treatment. Although the treatment for these disease can slow the course of the disease because there is no known cure for HIV vaccine but the ARV`s reduces the deaths and infections. Prevention is the key aim in controlling the AIDS pandemic, with Health Organisations promoting safe sex programmes in attempts to slow the spread of the virus.