A CALL TO HUMANITY - HIV/AIDS' REALITY
WHAT CAN YOU DO NOW? TOO LATE??
Tunde was a bright high school student and the eldest son of large family. He had many great visions to change society and wanted to become a social entrepreneur on Victoria Island. One day he was invited by some of his friends to a party where they began to drink alcohol and eventually became drunk. Each of his friends went off to sleep with girls and strongly encouraged him to do likewise. Tunde hesitated but eventually followed their lead. During intercourse he used a condom which slipped off in the act. After, he said to a friend, “I wonder if I have AIDS?” His friend answered with looking alarmed, “People with AIDS get sores all over their body, lose weight, and get all kinds of special diseases like TB, cancer. They always die. It’s a miserable way to go. You had better check with a doctor.” Tunde discovered he was HIV positive, and died a few years later from AIDS.
No one wants to die like Tunde, we are all longing for an AIDS free world. The whole world is looking the clinical solution by discovering vaccine, and or stopping transmission through the wide use of condoms. But is it really possible to stop? After hearing my opinion you may think of me as a crazy person, as did one of my favourite teachers. When I expressed my ideas during discussion on AIDS prevention, I was scolded and stridently pushed out from his room. He said, “I don’t like mullahtontro (militant ideology). You can go now!” I was shocked by his rejection, and thought, “Am I right in my position as a development activist? Do my ideas favour the establishment of true human dignity?” The teacher believes and promotes the culture of ‘sexual freedom’. He refused as he felt my idea was ancient, backdated and religiously makeup-ed, but I have strong confidence that there is no alternative way. There are bright sides of religious ideas, such as advancing civilizations, protection of human kind from spiritual suffering and developing the formal and practical shapes of moral and ethical values.
In order to stop AIDS, we have to first find out the causes and the ways it’s spreading. According to the UNAIDS worldwide 85% HIV is transmitted by sex and the remaining 15% through sharing injection, drug needles, blood, birth or breast feeding by HIV positive mother, etc. From UNAIDS findings it is easily to see that the main reason AIDS is spreading is unsafe sex, that is, the ‘misuse of sex and love’.
Not only my teacher, but also the UN, most of all responsible activists and organisations, are promoting superficial solutions to AIDS. Sustaining movements against AIDS opens a great business for condom and media companies. It is the best time to promote the ‘culture of absolute sex’ instead of ‘safe sex culture’ through effective use media and ICT opportunities. I believe, sex is the most divine and joyful act of this universe by which human being come to the world. It should be practiced with its absolute standard. But nowadays it is contaminated and negatively influenced by the unethical media influence and too much emphasis on physical desires. The source of joy and creation is converted now into a source of suffering. We have to awake up and open our eyes, and need to avoid the unconscious, animal-like sex practices which severely violate women’s rights, child rights and rights of deprived groups. We know, the main purpose of life is the accomplishment of God’s blessings, that is to be a matured individual, an ideal husband/wife, responsible parents and citizens as well as leaders who take care of their community, country, world as well as their environment.
STOP HIV/AIDS NOW!!!
PREVENTIVE COUNSELLING- Involves determining whether the lifestyle and behaviour of individual or group of individuals presents them with a risk of HIV infection working with them so that they come to understand the risks, helping to identify and define the true potentials for behaviour changes and then working to achieve and sustain appropiate and chosen changes in behaviour.
COUNSELLING- is the proces of encouraging and enhancing self determination, boosting self confidence and working with the patient to maintain motivation for optimum changes in behaviour through creating a supportive and trusting relationship. It also provides help for those facing the tremendous uncertainties and stress associated with having HIV. such stresses can lead to episodic or continual physiological morbidity in those infected and in their loved ones and careers.
WHY IS COUNSELLING NECESSARY?
Absence of counselling leads to:
Severe, chronic physiological and psychiatric disturbance. Harm resulting from fear of death in affected persons.
Conclusively, preventive counselling is a process of making general health education messages personally relevant so that individuals can through a continuing personal relationship with a counsellor respond in an individual way to health education that they might otherwise regard as unrealistic or of little personal importance.
The spread of the scourge can be so easily prevented by changes in behaviour which can be made when there is a trusting and supportive relationship with a counsellor.
I'm Leslie Omoruyi, the director of fighthiv organization,
www.fighthiv.8k.com. Fighthiv has come to give releif to those affecetd and more preventive and consciousness measures to those unaffected. Unfortunately, the organization is threatened at this moment due to financial and HIV/AIDS materials constraint.
We have contacted several bodies overseas who said their projects to Africa only had to do with the southern parts where HIV/AIDS is highest. We expect little or nothing from a country in which corruption and deception have become the order of the day.
Our address is youthkeep@yahoo.com. We need your encouragements in every and any way. please see to ensure that the dream is kept. we must not stop. You can aid by sending what you can and by helping us get aid from other larger organizations that you can gain acess to (online and physically) or those nearer to you.
WAR AGAINST HIV/AIDS
fighthiv organization is threatening to fold up due to financial and health materials constraint. We need aid in any measure to keep up.
JOIN THE FIGHT NOW!!!
FIGHT AGAINST HIV/AIDS
HATE THE VIRUS NOT THE PEOPLE. THEY HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO LIFE LIKE YOU. SUPPORT PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
JOIN THE TEAM NOW!!
Waiting to hear from you.
