The new faces of HIV/AIDS: Our Children

New aspects of HIV / AIDS in the Pozanna: Our children were called leprosy in ancient history. Often, most societies call people who suffer leprosy as a wanderer, due to illness-related fear and illness ignorance. In fact, Judaism religion and law classify people who are symptomatic of leprosy as "dirty". In addition to suffering from diseases that may be very uncomfortable, people with leprosy must suffer from insults and humiliation related to social unpopularity.

HIV / AIDS is a new epidemic in our history, there is currently no cure or vaccine against HIV / AIDS. HIV infects through rare infections such as sexual contact, including homosexuality and homosexuality, injections of drug users, transfusions, etc. HIV has a long duration of infections, infections, diseases. In 2008, the number of people living with HIV all over the world was 33.4 million, of which 31.3 million were adults, 15.7 million women, and 1 million children under the age of 15. In 2008, 7 million people are newly infected with HIV and 1 million die of AIDS-related diseases and are still one of the leading causes of death in the world.

HIV and AIDS have influenced millions of people all over the world. Since 1981, 25 million people have died as a result of AIDS involving men, women and children. Currently, there are 40 million people infected with HIV and AIDS all over the world, and 2 million people die from AIDS-related diseases every year. The US Centers for Disease Control estimates that one third of the million people living with HIV are unaware that they are infected with HIV. The earliest known case of AIDS occurred in 1959. - Imagine a world where innocent children are infected with HIV for mother-to-child infection. Please imagine a world where my father can not play soccer with my son in autumn afternoon. Please imagine a world that has repeated yeast infection for months. Finally, please imagine a world where you can not remember your mother 's name due to short term memory loss.

There are 41 HIV-infected children in Saint Lucia, 21 of them are AIDS. This accounts for 10% of the total number of HIVs confirmed. 3% of cases are vertical infections (mothers and babies). In Saint Vincent there are 27 children known to be infected with HIV / AIDS from their mothers. Nine of the patients were pregnant with a positive test at the previous birth. The number of children orphaned by HIV / AIDS is unknown. There is no direct question to the caregiver as to whether the caregiver (or a member of the family member) is suffering from HIV / AIDS, but it receives a series of questions related to stigma and discrimination in the context of the virus. More than three quarters of people say they are willing to take care of AIDS patients' families, but about one third want to keep the disease secret. The latter discovery contradicts the experience of people engaged in fashion.