Written by Saad Umar Shamsi
According to United Nations statistics, the number of AIDS patients in Pakistan has exceeded over two hundred thousand , but only five thousand patients have come forward and registered themselves for treatment. Dr. Salman Shahid, project director of the Punjab AIDS Control Program. According to the general population of Pakistan, this disease is very rare, less than one percent, but there are high-risk groups in certain groups, such as female sex workers, eunuchs, and people who inject drugs through syringes. increasing from He further says that the external aid received for the prevention of AIDS in Pakistan has also decreased considerably and now such organizations are more focused on flood-affected areas. According to Dr. Salman Shahid, Pakistan AIDS. The goal of the Millennium Goals of the United Nations has not been met, but efforts are being made to prevent this disease and centers have been opened for free consultation, diagnosis and treatment of AIDS. He also says that the real problem in Pakistan is to expose the AIDS patients who are not in the public eye due to social problems. said that at present three and a half million people around the world are suffering from AIDS, most of them live in African and developing countries.
According to him, in the year 2009, 2.6 million new patients were reported worldwide and 1.8 million deaths were caused due to this disease. According to him, the situation is improving now and AIDS has been prevented from growing in 56 countries of the world. Dr. Maha Talat, a UNICEF official, said that there is a 40% chance of transmission of the virus to the children of AIDS-affected women. However, the chances of transmission of the virus during pregnancy, childbirth, childbirth and breastfeeding are less than five percent. An expert, Dr. Ghazala, said that this year’s World AIDS Day is about human rights. According to him, we all should take care of the rights of AIDS patients, do not treat them in a biased manner and only consider the disease as bad instead of the patient. A change of thinking is essential in the fight against AIDS. A major concern in the fight against AIDS and HIV in Asia is the criminalization of sex workers, drug addicts, and homosexuals in Asian countries. This approach regarding efforts to stop the spread of the virus was presented on Wednesday during the ongoing World AIDS Conference in Vienna, Austria. A proof of this is that in at least twenty-five countries in Asia, drug use is still prevalent today. Or those involved are sentenced to death for crimes such as possessing them. In this way, drug addicts are afraid to seek treatment to avoid punishment.
According to Anand Grover, the special representative who prepares reports for the United Nations Human Rights Council and a well-known legal expert, it is an undisputed fact that through injection. Drug abuse is one of the main causes of the rapid spread of AIDS worldwide. In the same way that the AIDS virus is transmitted from one person to another through unprotected sex. Raquel Ong, a female official of APN Positive, a support network for people living with HIV in the Asia Pacific region. Says that in many Asian countries, drug addicts use any facilities that are beneficial and helpful for them.According to Anand Grover, there are 15 countries in Asia where homosexuals are convicted and sentenced by the courts. Thus people who could potentially develop AIDS, or who could spread the HIV virus after contracting it, are pushed further into the background. Anand Grover, Vienna He told the participants of the conference that the use of drugs in many parts of India has been going on for centuries and in the past sex workers were given great importance in the Indian society due to their social status. He gave an example and said that India In many parts of the country, opium pills are still common today, and in the past, important households hired women, who had connections to the upper class but were sex workers of their day, to learn social etiquette. During the discussion on this topic at the World AIDS Conference in Vienna, it was demanded that there is a need to unbias public opinion in relation to drug use, sex workers and sexual relations between same-sex couples. The thinking of making homosexuals guilty of crimes should also change and the governments of all Asian countries should adopt a solid and enlightened policy in this regard. They have to think seriously about how the spread of AIDS and HIV virus can be stopped.It must be reduced further.
According to Michel Sidibe, the international network of preventive measures needs to be further improved in order to achieve this goal. In 2008, 430,000 children were born worldwide who were born with the HIV virus. In many countries in Asia and Africa, 45% of pregnant women, when brought to various hospitals for treatment, their babies have been exposed to the AIDS virus before they are born. In 2007, the rate of such pregnant women in these countries was 35 percent. By the end of last year, millions of people living in mostly poor countries could not afford the expensive treatment of this deadly disease. In 2008, the number of people living with AIDS worldwide was 4.7 million. According to UNAIDS estimates, by 2010 international efforts to prevent HIV will require an additional approximately $25 billion. ..