Impact of Hiv/Aids
HIV and AIDS are one of the most formidable challenges to human life and dignity, undermining social and economic development especially in sub-Saharan Africa. It has stripped families of their loved ones and hard earned income. To the economy, the damage is so extensive, there has been reduced productivity resulting in less gross domestic product.
HIV and AIDS are very vicious challenge to human life as there is been no cure for the pandemic hence the number of deaths due HIV and AIDS related diseases is so high. Sub-Saharan Africa on its own accounts for the highest number of HIV and AIDS prevalence. In this region is the most vicious strain of HIV, known as HIV1. It spreads a whole lot faster and is more infectious than HIV2. This problem is further exacerbated by poverty, poor nutrition, ignorance and lack of proper health care. People in developing countries progress from HIV to AIDS faster than people in developed countries. The immune systems of many people in developing countries have been weakened by diseases such as malaria parasites HIV and AIDS have for a long time been associated with promiscuity resulting in discrimination of infected people. In the community, people with HIV and AIDS are often shunned in some cases were cast out of the community. No matter how much respectable a person was, once people discover they are infected, they lose that respect and dignity. In the home if for instance when the breadwinner is sick, they are stripped of their position as head of the family, they are often regarded as too sick to make decisions, meaning that they have lost their dignity.
Ignorance in our African society led to people believing that people living with HIV and AIDS have been cursed by the gods hence they were discriminated or banished from society. They would be discriminated; no one would touch them or talk to them. Discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS is counterproductive as it increases vulnerability to HIV infection and
HIV and AIDS are very vicious challenge to human life as there is been no cure for the pandemic hence the number of deaths due HIV and AIDS related diseases is so high. Sub-Saharan Africa on its own accounts for the highest number of HIV and AIDS prevalence. In this region is the most vicious strain of HIV, known as HIV1. It spreads a whole lot faster and is more infectious than HIV2. This problem is further exacerbated by poverty, poor nutrition, ignorance and lack of proper health care. People in developing countries progress from HIV to AIDS faster than people in developed countries. The immune systems of many people in developing countries have been weakened by diseases such as malaria parasites HIV and AIDS have for a long time been associated with promiscuity resulting in discrimination of infected people. In the community, people with HIV and AIDS are often shunned in some cases were cast out of the community. No matter how much respectable a person was, once people discover they are infected, they lose that respect and dignity. In the home if for instance when the breadwinner is sick, they are stripped of their position as head of the family, they are often regarded as too sick to make decisions, meaning that they have lost their dignity.
Ignorance in our African society led to people believing that people living with HIV and AIDS have been cursed by the gods hence they were discriminated or banished from society. They would be discriminated; no one would touch them or talk to them. Discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS is counterproductive as it increases vulnerability to HIV infection and