LIVE AND LET LIVE

"No life must be lost due to stigma attached with the scourge"

The stigma that is attached with the patients with AIDS is real hurdle in the step to remove the scourge prevalent in our world called AIDS..
There is so much stigma attached that ppl tend to forget tthat this disease is caused more due to blindness... than anthing else .... Yaa blindness related to the various causes of AIDS.. (In this blog you can also find the various causes of AIDS)....
Had Geeta known that her husband was HIV+ atleast she cud have atlaest protected herself as well as her baby from this.... And guess wat Rahul, Geeta s husband dint reveal this cos he felt that he wud be left alone in this world,.. knowing the stigma attached with this term..AIDS... realizing only later that he had done such a huge blunder... the outcome of which has propagated to the next generation ,....

So, Please do not deny the patients with HIV + their right to be human.......

LIVE AND LET LIVE

AIDS awareness: STATISTICS: A challenge

AIDS awareness: STATISTICS: A challenge

STATISTICS: A challenge

• Number of people living with HIV in 2005: 40.3-million
  Adults: 38-million
  Women: 17.5-million
  Children under 15 years: 2.3-million

• People newly infected with HIV in 2005: 4.9-million
  Adults : 4.2-million
  Children under 15 years: 700 000

• AIDS deaths in 2005: 3.1-million
  Adults: 2.6-million
  Children under 15 years: 570 000
  
  
  Source: AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2005
  

Ziduvudine- A saviour

• A woman who is HIV-positive can pass on HIV to her baby during pregnancy, during childbirth and during breastfeeding.

• In the absence of preventative interventions, the probability that an HIV-positive woman's baby will become infected is approximately 25% – 35%, according to Unicef.

• Two treatment options: Ziduvidine (AZT) and nevirapine, are available to reduce the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mother to child.