AIDING THE AIDS

Twenty two thousand researchers, doctors, activists and members of the press attended the International AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) Conference sponsored by the International AIDS Society at Mexico City in 2008.

The Conference was for a week to discuss the strategy to control the cruel disease that killed 25 million people since 1981.

In fact, AIDS are a set of symptoms resulting from the damage to the human immune system caused by the human immune deficiency virus (HIV).

Former US President Bill Clinton said that “we must do more.”

The William Jefferson Clinton Foundation is involved in promoting health and economic development around the world to help the 33 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS.

Among the African countries, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Liberia and Senegal are most affected by this disease.

The Clinton Foundation supports work to fight epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria while building basic health systems. 

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently informed that there are 56,300 new infections every year in the US itself.

It is a global problem; there is no country not infected and babies are born everyday with HIV, the virus causes AIDS.

The activists advise that the AIDS infections should be met with stepping-up prevention, testing, counseling and community approach.

In the US African – Americans suffer seven times the risk of infection that whites do, because of poverty, gaps in care, drug use, incarceration and a stigma in the community that discourages testing and treatment.

Hispanic Americans have three times the risk that Whites have.

The US Government sanctioned $48 billion to control AIDS abroad.

It is one of the worst diseases spreading silently in our society.

Creating awareness, preventing its spread, curing the infected with medicine, researching for a better drug to defeat this nasty disease and safeguard a healthy society free from it. 

Even Bill Gate’s Foundation is spending lot of money to solve the problem of this disease which is spreading like wild fire all over the world.

Human race is threatened by this silent killer which descends from generation to generation.

How are we going to control it?

A very big question in everyone’s mind!

Understanding the biology of the disease and undertaking research to resolve this question of control is the topmost aim of Governments and many Non-Governmental Organizations.

I hope new breakthroughs will come soon to solve the problem of AIDS.