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HIV/AIDS; life threatning in PAKISTAN.
ASSALAM-U-ALLAIKUM:
u all must be knowing that HIV/AIDS is one of the leading deadly diseases which dont have a proper treatment as well...i think MASHALLAH most of the docotrs visiting this site must be knowing about HIV/AIDS more than me but still i want to update those who are new in the medical field and are medical students and the layman as well...
u know the first case of AIDS reported in pakistan was in 1987 in lahore...in late 80s and 90s it becomes evident that most of the people esp men are effected by this disease who are travelling abroad or while living.on returning back,some of these men transmit the disease which goes on to their wives and ultimately pass on to the new borns as well..most of the people who are infected belong to the 20 to 49 age group.as the first case of HIV was reported in 1987,and uptil the research done in september 2000..it increased to almost 1699.among those heterosexual transmission was the main cause in about37%of the reported cases,in 18% contaminated blood was the main cause, in 4% drug users,in 6% homosexual or bisexual sex workers..and transmission cases of unknown cause are about 37%...while the HIV/AIDS prevalence is low in pakistan as compared to the other countries;it doesn't mean that it will remain low but it gradually becomes unlimited if the risk factors are not avoided or stopped and as the matter of prostitution and homosexuality is increasing rapidly so by about a few years,the prevalence in pakistan would also increase unlimitedly..
the main causes of HIV/AIDS vunerability are unemployment,social exclusion,physical or mental abuse,gender-based discrimination which is very common in pakistan,blood trasfusion,commercial sex workers,injecting drug users,sexually transmitting infections,homosexuality and migration and mobility ....these are the main factors which someway or the other lead to this deadly disease...
u know according to the research done in the year 2003....
1.the estimated number of cases including adults and children in 2003 were almost 74000.out of which adult male who are aged between 15-49 years are almost 73000.and the females aged between 15-49yrs are almost 8900..estimated number of deaths in the year 2003 were almost 4900..
we can reduce this number only by removing the above given risk factors from the communtiy...and i hope you all will be supporting this phenomena...
regards,
dr kiran.
Posted by: kiran123 Posts: 41 :: 18-01-2006 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: HIV/AIDS; life threatning in PAKISTAN.
bigger threat than HIV is Hep B and C which would be about thousand times more common in pakistan than aids.
This is like a time bomb planted in a human being just waiting to explode. The ones responsible for this spread in our socity are :
1. Dentists.
2. Quaks using unsterilised instruments and needles.
3. Barbers.
4. Unscreened blood transfusions.
Pls whenever u visit a dentist or a doctor make sure that the instruments and needles are new/ sterilised and donot feel shy to ask this question categorically.
ijaz
Posted by: ijazali Posts: 151 :: 24-01-2006 :: | Reply to this Message
Re: HIV/AIDS; life threatning in PAKISTAN.
Dear Dr. Kiran,
I studied you article, I am interested to know about apporaches/ strategies are being implemented through Many Projects are being run,so I would like to obtain extremely much advantage of different Resource Centers and desire to recognize very much about different strategies and approaches about HIV-AIDS & TB as an opportunistic infection.
I studied somewhere that successful HIV prevention depends on changing risk behaviors that definitely includes growing condom use and reducing the numbers of sex partners among sexually active people, reducing needle-sharing behavior among injecting drug users.
As HIV & TB continues to spread in many countries, prevention efforts are increasing to promote the changes in behavior mentioned above. Every Organization needs information to design appropriate prevention programs and to monitor whether these efforts are successful or not and what are still key challenges for GO/NGOs/CBOs in sustaining the same programs or what are still high priority needs of donors in form of affordable & sustainable approaches that can be run after project budget completion?
What strategies are developed and implemented that can play an important role in increasing awareness, reducing stigma, improving the visibility and importance of HIV-AIDS & TB on the public health agenda. Achieving political and administrative commitment and educating the media?
Many projects have run under dedicated leaderships and managements therefore different persons’ inputs can help us to see the response to HIV-AIDS & TB in different comprehensive and strategic approaches that ultimately will keep up to date, new lessons could be learned and improvements will inevitably be made accordingly or even it would be known that which efforts are made to justify the expenditure of resources only and are not in real beneficial in prevention to reduce the prevalence rate and promote community involvement.
Hope for the positive response soon.
Yours truly,
Faiz Muhammad Bhangar
Chairman
Community Development Network Forum (CDNF)
Larkana, Sindh Pakistan
cdnf_lrk@yahoo.com
Posted by: Faiz Posts: 1 :: 23-10-2007 :: | Reply to this Message