Need to end discrimination against people with HIV: Association of hospitals

According to World AIDS Day website those people who undergo treatment and consistently take their ARVs are likely to reduce their infectiousness by 96 percent.

“Ending the AIDS epidemic means that adolescent girls and young women have access to education and appropriate HIV and sexual and reproductive health services”, he said in his World AIDS Day message posted on the UNAIDS website. Scientists have developed antiretroviral drugs to contain the spreading of the virus and according to the World Health Organization; people infected should seek medical help and advice at the earliest to minimize the risk of spreading the virus.

Social network and mobile dating apps have expanded the options for spontaneous, casual sex and are now being cited as a key reason for an increase in HIV infections in the Asia Pacific region.

Some of the achievements include increasing the percentage of people living with HIV who are diagnosed from 81 percent to 87 percent, eliminating the AIDS Drug Assistance Program waiting lists and modernizing HIV testing and treatment guidelines. Last year Ingham County had 25 new cases.

The foundation even called for deeper compassion for people living with or affected by HIV and AIDS. Wendy Phipps says while the Federation has made significant advancements regarding HIV-AIDS awareness and treatment of persons living with the disease, more needs to be done.

For more than thirty years Doctor Peter Gulick has been studying HIV and AIDS. “We want that he troopers are aware and fight against it and stay away from it through awareness so that can serve the nation better”, said BSF Tripura Frontier IG, M F Farooqui.

While the volunteers received a warm welcome from most people, the executive director of AIDS Moncton, Debbie Warren, says there is still a stigma attached to HIV and AIDS. “HIV is about global health and we need to fast truck and quicken the pace of action”, he said.

The deputy president also said his country has significantly reduced mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

India is among the top three countries with the highest number of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases, alongside South Africa and Nigeria.