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Ghosh, Pallavi and Arya, Pooja. (
Threat
of AIDS looms large in Himachal Pradesh
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Pallavi Ghosh and Pooja Arya
After
Manipur and Andhra
Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh could be the next state with alarming AIDS figures. Truck drivers are at a very high risk. The biggest
problem: most people do know about
AIDS, but they don't know what precautions to take.
Truck
drivers like Mukesh Kumar are among the high-risk
groups of HIV/AIDS in a state where
the AIDS clock is ticking fast.
In
the last five months alone:
One
reason could be the absence of
awareness among the high risk groups.
Mukesh says he is aware of the problem, but does not
know what precautions to take.
There
are 4,000 reported HIV positive cases. Many
more go unreported, yet the authorities prefer to underplay the problem.
"It
is not that alarming, our state falls under low prevalence state. It is on the
basis of studies, which show that it is below 1 per cent," said Dr C D
Sharma, State AIDS Control Society, Himachal Pradesh.
As
a result, there are few facilities to
monitor and prevent the spread of the disease.
Though
the first case of AIDS in the state was detected five years ago in Hamirpur, there are only
three AIDS detection centres for the entire state and
few health workers.
A
walk through the streets of the capital did not show even a single poster on
AIDS.
With
the numbers of high risk groups like migrant
workers and truck drivers
increasing by the day, monitoring centres and
awareness programmes need to be started urgently or
else HIV/AIDS could turn into a
nightmare for Himachal.
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Haney, Daniel Q.
(Tuesday,
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-aids-chat-rooms0211feb11,0,3195380.story
Chat Rooms a
By DANIEL Q. HANEY
AP Medical Editor
BOSTON --
Chat
rooms on gay Web sites are becoming a common place for arranging risky sexual
encounters, a survey found, as experts worry about a possible upswing
in HIV infections.
Research released Tuesday suggests that for
some, the
Internet serves the same hazardous purpose as gay bathhouses did in the early
1980s, when the AIDS virus first spread rampantly among homosexual men.
"The Internet is a new venue
associated with high-risk sex," said Sabina Hirshfield.
"It
is a quick and easy way to meet partners."
The AIDS epidemic has leveled off in the
The report by Hirschfield and colleagues
from the Medical and Health Research Association of
Her report was based on online surveys
filled out by nearly 3,000 men using the Web site gay.com, which describes
itself as "the largest gay media property in the world." They were
mostly white, college-educated men from all over the
The survey found that 84 percent said they
met sex partners online, and about two-thirds had recently had anal sex without
condoms. About one-quarter of the men said they had had more 100 sex partners
during their lives.
While federal officials are not convinced
that HIV is spreading more rampantly these days, several clues
suggest it may be. The CDC's Dr. Ronald Valdiserri
noted that in 2001, for the first time in eight years, the number of newly
diagnosed AIDS cases rose a slight 1 percent. Furthermore, data gathered from 25
states found the number of newly diagnosed HIV infections increased 8 percent
between 1999 and 2001.
"We are concerned, and we are looking
very carefully at these trends for what they might do in the future," he
said.
Possible reasons cited by experts for an
increase include the much higher number of Americans living with AIDS as a
result of lifesaving medicines, fading memories of the ravages of the disease
in earlier years and a sense that HIV can be readily treated.
One of the CDC's goals is to make sure that
HIV-infected people know they have the virus so they will get treatment and be
careful not pass it on to others. The CDC estimates that one-third of the
900,000 people living with HIV know of their
infections.
However, new data from
Another study from the
"Prisons in many ways facilitate the
transmission of HIV," Wohl said. "Our experience is that when
people get out of prison, there are two things they want to do, and one of them
is get a Big Mac."
Much research suggests that people are most
likely to pass the virus on to others soon after they catch it, since their
virus levels are especially high then. A study from
Dr. Maria Wawer
reported that among these African couples, who did not use condoms, there was
an 8-in-1,000 chance of passing on the virus with each sex act during those first five
months after infection. The risk then dropped to 1 in 1,000 but climbed again to
5 in 1,000 in the 15 months before the infected person died of AIDS.
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Hax, Carolyn. (
http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/story/4566220p-5585397c.html
Tell Me About
It: She can't help thinking of his nine other women
By Carolyn Hax
Published
DEAR CAROLYN: My wonderful
boyfriend and I recently had the Stupidest Possible Conversation a Couple Can Have -- going over our respective sexual histories. We
didn't delve into too much detail, but I found out that he's slept with nine women before me. And this really, really, really (as in, I'm losing
sleep over it) bothers me.
I believe sex is a wonderful,
beautiful, almost sacred thing. I don't necessarily believe in waiting until
our wedding night, but I can't imagine giving something so personal and special
to a stranger like my boyfriend has.
Am I making this into a much
bigger deal than it really is?
-- Saddened
DEAR SADDENED: Correction,
this was the Smartest Possible Conversation You Two Could Have, precisely
because it might have exposed a deal-breaking difference in values. If you're
throwing around terms like "our wedding night," you were (over)due
for a delve into each other's past loves, and lusts. They matter. They help show
who you both were and who you since have become.
Except now you have the image
of him with nine other women to keep you up at night, when right now you need a
general idea of his sexual mores keeping you up at night. Citing exact numbers
was both too much detail and stupid.
Ask what his values are now,
period. Clearly you are horrified by what they were when he was 19. Fair
enough. But maybe it took a bout of
meaningless sex to knock him into the spiritual despair that led to the
questioning that led to the belief in
sex as a gift that led him to you. In the house that Jack
built.
In that case, your values
would be in perfect alignment, just by way of different paths. Or, he was out
for an even 10 and you were right there and not ugly; his experience can also
have put him on a wildly divergent path that crossed yours only by chance.
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vital difference between traditional Eastern culture and the modern Western
culture, be it a man or woman -
I believe sex is a wonderful,
beautiful, almost sacred thing. I don't necessarily
believe in waiting until our wedding
night, but I can't imagine giving
something so personal and special to a stranger like my boyfriend has.
Many a young man or woman who moves from a traditional
culture to the Western culture face “culture shock”. The above “open-ness” in life-style of
Western man and woman being one of the many reasons for the shock.
Imagine a person, being brought up in religious orthodoxy, with taboos etc. On
sudden exposure to an environment of sexual open-ness, he or she faces mental
shock. Not only East, any traditional environment. There are cases where Latin
American women from South America, brought up on chastity values, on moving
over to USA, undergo culture shock when faced by issues like the promiscuous
sexual relations of man as well as woman outside marriage.
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Jayarajan,
Gireesh,
Edited by D'silva, Pamela. (
http://www.ijtnews.org/aug02/aids.html
August
2002
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AIDS
on Rise in
The
finding is based on a sample survey done by the Family Health Institute, Trivandrum, on behalf of the Kerala
State AIDS Control Society (KSACS), the Government anti AIDS umbrella organisation which monitors and co-ordinates the anti AIDS
campaign in the State.
According
to the survey results, the total
number of AIDS cases in the State is 890
and HIV positive cases 70000 to
100000. Of these about 90 AIDS cases
and 7000 HIV positive cases have been
reported from Thiruvananthapuram
district.
This
is evidence of prostitution and other unhealthy practices in the city. Prostitutes
throng the busy centres such as East Fort, Statue, Thampanoor and Palayam day and
night.
Hariharan,
who is working as a volunteer with Soma, an anti AIDS NGO in the city, says: “There are about 200 sex workers who stalk the streets
everyday as well as many unseen ones. These women
constitute a high risk group and are potential transmitters of the dreaded disease”.
About
6.6 percentage of these sex workers are already known to be afflicted.
"Efforts are being made by the KSACS to create awareness among the high
risks groups about AIDS. This is mainly done through NGOs eight of which like
Soma, Thrani and Maithri
are active on the scene in the city”, says George Joseph, an official at KSACS.
These NGOs are encouraged to undertake social marketing of condoms, besides
free distribution. They also carry out ‘targeted interventions’, a peer-based
approach that enables and sustains behaviour
change among the high risk
groups.
Although
the KSACS and NGOs claim the activities to be effective, the overall results are not so convincing. A local sex
worker from the Palayam
area claims that most of their
customers are averse to the idea of condoms and, as elsewhere, the customer interests are paramount.
“There
is no need for too much of concern”, says Dr. N. Prasannakumar,
Assistant Director of Health Services (AIDS), “the statistics are based on a sample survey and is not
completely reliable. It may also be
that the capital city shows a high incidence of AIDS because it hosts a medical
college leading to reporting of a higher number of cases as being from the
city."
Gireesh Jayarajan
Edited
by Pamela D'silva
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Total number of AIDS cases 890 90
HIV positive cases 70,
000 – 1, 00, 000 7, 000
(Note: the statistics are based on a sample survey; not
completely reliable)
i.
Less morality
in society
ii.
Higher
incidence of extra-marital sex
iii.
Sex seen as a
sign of “manhood”
iv.
The prevalent
attitude among young boys and girls, young men and women to explore the
“forbidden fruit” (Refer jokes)
i.
Does that mean
lack of moral values, for men and women?
1. When such is the state of moral values in any society, is
it surprising that the number of AIDS cases is increasing day by day, in any
society?
a. It also means that to counter AIDS, one should personally
cultivate certain do’s and don’ts. Certain personal
rules. Moral values. Righteousness. If a person, whether man or woman doesn’t
have that basic self-restriction, there is no point in fighting AIDS. Just
suffer the consequences, the pain etc of being infected, or of being affected.
b. So what is the point in giving sex education to school
children, boys and girls, when there is an absolute lack of morality in
society?
c. Teach moral values, moral science as part of curriculum.
Then comes the next problem:
i.
You may preach
“empty words” of moral values in schools. BUT is that what is actually seen in
society?
ii.
How will the
little children correlate the concepts of morality, acts of righteousness etc
with what is taught in schools and what is actually experienced in society?
1. What genuine answer can a moral teacher give to such a
discrepancy, such a contradiction?
i.
No Sex
ii.
Be Celibate
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Kumar,
Manish. (
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Manish
Kumar
In
a shocking incident, a family in Hathauri
Dayal
Singh is a devastated man today. While poverty prevented his family any access
to treatment, the prevailing myth
that AIDS spreads through social interaction ensured that they were boycotted.
"No
one from the village came to see us. Even the men were not offered water. We
somehow managed to perform the last rites," says Indu
Devi, widow of one of the victim.
The
villagers also suspect that at least three members of the family, including two
daughters-in-law and a three-year-old child are HIV positive.
"My
child is always sick and I am worried. I never get any help," says Neelam Devi, another victim's
widow.
Even
the Rs 1.5 lakh, sanctioned
by former Health Minister CP Thakur, has yet to reach
the family.
Meanwhile,
the locals have barred any contact
with the family.
"We are afraid, so we blocked the route to their house. We are
apprehensive about getting the disease ourselves," says Ramnaresh Paswan, a villager.
And
it is this lack of awareness which the state government has to get rid off, if it wants to fight AIDS.
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Leeman,
Patrick. (
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?sf=13&click_id=13&art_id=ct20020501203020377R5252396&set_id=1
Deadly
new Aids symptoms surface in KZN
By
Patrick Leeman
The
epidemic of HIV/Aids in
Urging
the medical fraternity to be extra vigilant, Professor Runjan
Chetty, professor of pathology at the
One
new form was the bulging or distension of the large arteries to the head, neck
and limbs, often causing stroke-like symptoms and loss of feeling in the lower
limbs.
Prof
Chetty said this was an entirely new development in
the manifestation of the disease. He has just returned from a meeting in
He
said the presence of huge swellings,
often causing ruptured aneurysms, were
the first symptoms of HIV/Aids in the 16 patients observed with this condition.
A total of 40 patients with the manifestation had already been seen.
Professor
Chetty said most
of the patients who were studied did not have any clinically obvious signs of
HIV infection and none of them were being treated for HIV/Aids.
He
said that two-thirds of the patients
who were presented with these symptoms were male and ranged in age between 18
and 38.
He
said a colleague, Dr Nelson Moodley, from the
Department of Surgery, was embarking on a PhD to determine the cause of these
aneurysms from an immunological point of view.
Professor
Chetty said another strange manifestation regarding
HIV/Aids had been noted by his team. Where
the patient had already become HIV-infected, and the
immune system compromised, TB was now masquerading as an inflammatory condition in the form of non-specific
abscesses.
He
said this development was presenting
major diagnostic "pitfalls" for the medical profession.
If
these abscesses were not treated as
TB-induced and were instead treated as inflamed raised areas, the patient
could die from TB.
Professor
Chetty urged the
medical fraternity to be extra-vigilant in discerning both of these conditions.
The
swellings, he said, represented a "new" variation in the outbreak
of HIV/Aids, and the abscesses caused by TB an "old" variation.
This
was because TB was an old illness and was re-emerging in a highly dangerous way, alongside
HIV/Aids.
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“Thou belongest to That Which Is Undying, and not merely to time alone,” murmured the Sphinx, breaking its muteness at
last. “Thou
art eternal, and not merely of the vanishing flesh. The soul in man cannot be
killed, cannot die. It waits, shroud-wrapped,
in thy heart, as I waited, sand-wrapped, in thy world. Know thyself, O mortal! For there is One within thee, as in all men, that comes
and stands at the bar and bears witness that there IS a God!”
(Reference: Brunton, Paul. (1962) A Search in Secret
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