Essay On AIDS
Introduction: AIDS means Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It is a malignant disease and it makes human beings unable to resist it. It is caused basically by a virus called HIV. This is the most tragic incident in the history of mankind.
Causes: A man may be infected with this fatal disease for many reasons. He gets attacked with this serious disease by sexual intercourse with an opposite gender who is infected with AIDS; sharing the needles or syringes of the person attacked with AIDS; transferring HIV from an AIDS-infected mother to her issue during pregnancy; shaving with the same razor. HIV once got into the human body lasts as long as twenty years. It cannot be destroyed by applying antibiotic drugs, inoculations, and alcohol but it leads the infected person to death’s door very slowly and painfully. HIV includes pneumonia, headache, nausea, endless bleeding, non-recovery or incurable wounds, throat troubles, fever, jaundice, weakness, lack of appetite, etc.
Its spread: AIDS is spreading like jungle fire all over the world and is taking its toll. The youngsters of today are getting addicted to drugs and pre-marital sex. Women are also falling victim to this deadly disease for illegal sexual intercourse with others. Lack of sexual knowledge is also responsible for AIDS. It is hard to cure AIDS. It is a challenge for medical science. It remains unsolved, incurred, and untreated.
How to check it: AIDS needs proper checking to save people. Now some AIDS tests have been developed. The Fourth International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific was held in Manila. About 180 delegates attended the conference which concluded in the following ways; Every country in Asia and the Pacific must collect data on its behavioral, socio-economic, and epidemiological vulnerabilities to HIV and AIDS. These nations should stop the rejection of infected persons with AIDS. Safe sexual tendencies must be practiced using condoms. Homosexual behavior and tendency and multiple partner sex must be stopped and avoided. Prostitution centers must be closed. The country must intervene. Proper medical checking of every sex worker and customer must be made mandatory.
Warming: The experts of both the Govt. and NGOs have been ringing alarming bells regarding AIDS. Dr. Nafis Sadik, the special envoy to the UN Secretary-General for AIDS in Asia also pointed out the same shortcoming while presenting the herkey-notepaper in a seminar organized by Khan Foundation on Gender Equality and Access to Health Services. She stressed creating a wide-scale awareness among the common and savage people about the deadly disease. We now endorse her views when she said, “As reproductive health is a necessary factor for AIDS / HIV transmission from mother to child, the discrimination against women has to go. From her deliberation, it appears that there is little or no alternative to ensuring gender equality. Political leaders and the patriots must come forward to the national health policy.”
Conclusion: We should always remember that prevention is better than cure. Hence man is able to fight against this deadly disease by dint of great willpower. The issue needs careful attention from the individual. The nation and the medical community alike.
