About AIDS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

  AIDS AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

                              AIDS is a fatal disease which ultimately leads the patients to death. AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. It proves to be cause as the HIV attacks and destroys the cells of immune system of the body. The full from of HIV is Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Nowadays it has emerged as a global problem. HIV infected people are reported to have been spread all over the world, but the developing countries have shared a higher percentage. It is more rapidly increasing in developing countries than in developed countries.

                               AIDS is an incurable disease. The complete cure for it has not been discovered yet. The symptoms at the initial stage of it are unclear. Some of the common symptoms of HIV infection are regular fever more than three weeks, loss of weight more than ten percent of the original weight, regular diarrhea more than three weeks and skin rash.

                             At any stage, it can be passed on from one person to another. It is transmitted through the sexual intercourse with a person infected with HIV, the transfusion of HIV infected blood, the use of not properly sterilized needles and other skin piercing instruments previously used on the HIV infected patients and the HIV infected mothers to their babies. It is not confined to drug addicts but can strike anybody. The most dangerous and serious medium of its transmission is sexual intercourse. A single sexual intercourse with the person infected with the HIV can be enough to be transmitted from one person to another. It does not transmit through shaking hands, touching, hugging. Food, water and insects like mosquitoes.

                           There are some responsible factors which helps to spread AIDS. The people in developing countries are not completely aware of this fatal disease. They do not know how to be safe from it. The second factor is the poverty of the people. Some girls and women are compelled to be sex employees. Girls traffickers sell the innocent and ignorant girls to the illegal sex employers. People go to prostitution houses to satisfy their sexual needs. But they are likely to be victimized by HIV infection. They may transmit the HIV to other sex partners. Thus AIDS is rapidly spreading all over the world.

                              AIDS can be controlled implementing some effective measures. Firstly, public awareness should be promoted. Secondly, poverty alleviation programs should be implemented in the developing countries. Thirdly, girls trafficker and sex employers should be severely punished by law of the state. Doctors, nurses and other health workers should be very careful in blood transfusion and using needles.

As AIDS is an incurable disease, it must be controlled at any cost. If we cannot control it in time, the whole world will be victimized very badly. Specially, developing countries should be more careful to control it because the number of the HIV infected patients in these countries is increasing rapidly. Therefore, it is a great problem that needs averting.