Deadly Pandemic

Deadly Pandemic
According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) there will be a $ 25 million increase to continue and strengthen the fight against AIDS for 2010. A study carried out by UNAIDS explains that what countries need, along serious actions, are serious investments in order to reach the goals set for 2010.
The above amount will attempt to cover the objectives in order to achieve global access to prevention, treatment, attention, and support to HIV/AIDS victims during 2010. The United Nations asserts that one-third of the total amount designed to the fight against AIDS will cover initiatives and actions destined to the change of habits and social factors that may help slow down the spread of the deadly pandemic. Another part of the total amount will be destined to strengthen health systems. The rest of the budget will go to protective services, such as the methods that aim to prevent mother to child transmission of the virus, which to that extent provide antiretroviral therapy.
The United Nations suggests that for 2010, approximately 6.7 million of the diseased will have access to the antiretroviral treatment, more than 70 million pregnant young women and girls will undergo HIV/AIDS detection treatment and will receive services for mother to child prevention, and 20 million of young men and boys that have homosexual relations, 7 million of those who turn to prostitution, and 10 million of injectable drug addicts will have access to HIV/AIDS prevention services.
The study conducted demonstrates that global access should be a solid reality for humanity, especially for those individuals who are exposed to the contagion of the deadly pandemic, as well as those unfortunate who live with the virus.
In 2007, more than 33 million victims lived with the disease. The number of new contagions reached 2.7 million, while HIV/AIDS related death tolls reached 2 million. Concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa is 67 percent of the total of those infected victims – individuals who suffer in the struggle to survive the deadly virus.
The steps towards AIDS prevention, according to the global Summit of the Global Health Council, must respect: “human and spiritual values”; and must protect: “Human Rights and the dignity of human beings”. President Yoweri Maseveni of Uganda achieved for the Ugandan population to modify their sexual conduct. Approximately 93 percent of the Ugandan population has indeed modified their sexual practice in order to combat AIDS. According to Uganda´s Demographic and Health Survey, the ABC of the matter centers itself on: A) abstinence, B) fidelity, and C) character. (Translated by Gianna A. Sanchez-Moretti)


Author and journalist Clemente Ferrer has led a distinguished career in Spain in the fields of publicity and press relations. He is currently President of the European Institute of Marketing.
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