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 rapidlyThe 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.
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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.
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.
The government is doing a good job my lauching this campaigns, but my question is, does South African citizens take this issue of HIV and AIDS serious in such a way that they abstain and remain faithful to their partners and is the people who are already infected take the ARV's or they are just spreading the virus?
ReplyDeleteI dont think they take it as a serious issue in the sense that each and everyday people get infected by this disease.They should be supporting the government and take part in their campaigns educating people who does not have a clue of what HIV/AIDS is and does it affect a human instead they spreading the virus all over the country.
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