HIV / AIDS - The name itself is terrible! Even the news from someone shudder with HIV infection.
HIV is a virus that causes AIDS. In India, the first case of HIV was discovered in 1986 in a female sex workers in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. Since then the number of people infected with this virus, the rate of increase is alarming. As Reuters (March 2010), about 2.5 million people in India, the HIV virus to be with India among the top threeCountries with the highest number of HIV cases.
HIV epidemic in the main South (Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka) and North-East India (Manipur and Nagaland). According to a study in April 2010, North Rhine-Westphalia has infected the highest number of new AIDS cases in the last three years to be observed 25% of all people in India. In addition, a greater abundance of HIV in men than in women (60:40) and in the age group of 15-40 years. Not only that, some 30,000 children, according to UNICEFborn with HIV every year in India.
With a closer look at the figures above, it is essential for becoming to take drastic measures to kill the evil at birth. And this step is the line to educate people about the syndrome, because even today people with this deadly disease, faces the humiliation of being infected with irrational prejudices and distorting everyday in our society. Are faced with brutal assaults, and are scorned by his family and community. To work around this problem,World AIDS Day (which was started in 1988) annually on December 1, awareness of HIV / AIDS and combat discrimination levied. NACO (National AIDS Control Organization) was established in 1992 to administer the formulation of policies and programs to combat HIV and AIDS.
Since prevention is always better than cure, the following steps / measures can prevent HIV infection by viruses:
• Inform yourself and others about HIV / AIDS
• Avoid unprotected sex
• Always use a fresh needle for injection
If you are HIV positive, the following points should be considered:
• Follow safe sex practices
• Do not share your syringes and needles, razor, toothbrush, etc., with other
• Do not donate blood
• If you are pregnant, have regular checks, the child is not done with the virus infects Sun
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