1st Dec is World AIDS Day
Posted by Taufulou | Labels: AIDS, HIV, Sex Transmission, World AIDS Day | Posted On Wednesday, December 2, 2009 at 11:30 PM
I have just got to know that 1st of December is actually World AIDS Day. This is to create awareness to the public that HIV infection had causes this. This year's theme would be 'Universal Access and Human Rights' . In this event Malaysian AIDS Council is also part of it.
'The Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) pandemic is a wide-spread disease caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. Infection with HIV occurs by the transfer of blood, semen, vaginal fluid, pre-ejaculate, or breast milk. Within these bodily fluids, HIV is present as both free virus particles and virus within infected immune cells. The four major routes of transmission are unsafe sex, contaminated needles, breast milk, and transmission from an infected mother to her baby at birth (Vertical transmission). Screening of blood products for HIV has largely eliminated transmission through blood transfusions or infected blood products in the developed world. (more readings click here)
Since AIDS was first recognized in 1981, it has led to the deaths of more than 25 million people, making it one of the most destructive diseases in recorded history.
Despite recent improved access to antiretroviral treatment and care in many regions of the world, in 2007 the AIDS pandemic killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children.[1] In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, with an estimated 2.5 million people newly infected in 2007.[1] This has been attributed[who?] to lack of access to antiretroviral treatment in huge areas such as the continent of Africa, where (according to French researcher Olivier Schwarz), less than 10 percent of infected are reported to have access to it.[2]' - source from wikipedia
We live once in our life is yet just do not waste every precious moments yet we must :
this place looks hou suk. i think i have been there few years ago.