the Times of India, 29 July 2014
PANAJI: The parent teacher association (PTA) body's refusal to allow admission to HIV-positive children in a Rivona school has brought into sharp focus the lack of awareness about HIV/ AIDS among the general population in the state though Goa state aids control society (GSACS), a nodal department entrusted with enlightening people about HIV, is active for over a decade.
While GSACS is given credit for generating awareness about the deadly disease among high-risk groups such as commercial sex workers, truck drivers, motorcycle pilots, the Sanguem incident emphasizes the GSACS' need to also focus on the general population and work towards eliminating stigma attached to HIV AIDS.
VOA, 28 July 2014
More than 130,000 people who live in 42 fishing villages along Uganda's shores of Lake Victoria have an HIV-infection rate that is three to four times higher than the national average in this country of 36 million people.
Uganda has been aggressive in combating the HIV virus for more than 30 years.
The IOM studied the fishing communities in six Uganda districts. When they examined the level of knowledge of HIV and the attitudes and practices of people in the communities, they found the high HIV prevalence was caused by many inter-related factors, said Dr. Natalia Gitu, IOM's chief medical officer in Kampala.
Gitu said the IOM study and several previous reports describes the mobility and lifestyle of the fishermen - "The fact that they have every day, new cash, that flows in their business, and it's associated with drinking alcohol, and engaging themselves in unprotected sex."
PIA, 28 July 2014
ILOILO CITY, July 28 (PIA) --- The Department of Health (DOH) in Western Visayas said that HIV/AIDS (human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is no longer a "death sentence" for persons who have acquired the disease.
This is amid the increasing number of HIV cases in the region with 115 new recorded cases last year, according to DOH-6.
Liberty Voice, 26 July 2014
While Bill Clinton's recent call to end global AIDS at the 2014 International AIDS Conference is a big task, it can be possible. There are roughly 33.4 million people who are living with HIV or AIDS around the world and since 1981, there have been 25 million people who have died from AIDS. Despite the AIDS epidemic, Botswana is an example of how proper treatment and care is essential in fighting and eventually eradicating the disease.
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is contracted when this virus gets into a person's system through the transference of certain bodily fluids from a person who is HIV-infected. A person can come into contact with this virus through sexual contact, needle or drug injections, pregnancy, childbirth, breast-feeding, and through blood infusions. Once it is in a person's system, HIV attacks T-cells, which play a vital role in maintaining the immune system. As this virus destroys the T-cells, it also replicates itself and attaches itself to more cells in the body, thus rendering the body helpless from against any disease. At its final stages, HIV becomes AIDS and eventually leads to death.
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