HIV in Africa

HIV in Africa

Introduction

AIDS has become since the advent of the first cases in the early eighties, in a major public health problems worldwide. Despite promising results with protease inhibitors and drug combinations in the treatment of persons infected with HIV is not likely that a vaccine or other treatment to reach definitely effective cure of the infection are available in the future next. So prevention is the most realistic strategy of behavior in the HIV epidemic (Epstein, 1996). Prevention policy very often has a base or general opinion rather than scientific, and therefore requires a better knowledge of the characteristics of infected patients to assess the best prevention programs and policies, taking into account the peculiarities of each area and its evolution over time. Every year many patients suffering from this disease lost their lives. Still, many of the people around the world are fighting with this disease. The researches have shown significant findings that the disease causes several psychological problems in the person. These psychological problems make the person feel uncomfortable in life and affect their self-esteem negatively. The paper also discusses the story of a person who has suffered with this fatal disease (Takebe et al., 2008).

Discussion

According to the fact, Aids disease started from Africa and it has initiated from there. So, there are more patients of Aids in the Africa than anywhere in the world. It is the story of a high school boy who belongs to a lower level income group. His parents with their limited income allow him to study in a school to become a successful person. Alex was 16 years old; he was in 10th grade in a private school. His father was a mechanic and manages hard to earn bread and butter. Alex was the only son of his father. The boy fells love with a girl who was also in the Alex's school. Both were just friends and then the friendship turns into love. Their love crossed the limit and they indulged in unethical physical relation. The girl who also belonged to the under privileged area did not know that her father was HIV positive before her birth and she is also infected with it. After three months Alex suffered from flu a few weeks after the infection he also found rashes and swollen lymph on his body. His parents thought that he has a regular virus flue that will be fine in some days, but after a month his glands started swollen.

His parents started searching good doctors as they were living in the village and under privileged area they were not able to found the doctor who can diagnose the disease. In 1991 I started having very bad knee. At first no one realized that this was related to HIV. For six months I could not walk and I went on crutches. Then I was sent to the Central African Hospital.

This was the start of my hospital life, I soon realized that I would ...