HIV/AIDS Treatment

 

HIV/AIDS THE PARADOX OF THE MIND

 

A lot has been said and done to save the human race from the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Media campaigns targeting behavior change, have so far not managed to take way commercial sex workers or so called prostitutes from the streets of cities across the globe.

 

 Neither have the messages stopped infected persons from infecting others or non infected persons from getting infected through sexual activity. The multifaceted fight against HIV AIDS is still on while it may not be a surprise that part of the multitude of individuals involved in planning and implementing strategies against the disease leave offices at the end of the day to find pleasure in some kind of irresponsible sexual activity, or run businesses that are a comfort zone for the sexually irresponsible.

 

It may not be surprising that even some highly respected Judges may spend long hours in proceedings against sexual abusers such as defilers and rapists only to leave office and find comfort in some paid for sexual activity safe and away from the know of the public.

 

They do this while well aware that their action could lead to a new infection or encourage the irresponsible partner to expose themselves to this risk. It is not surprising in many cases to find that the same men and women who leave HIV/AIDS mitigation planning boardrooms by the end of the day walk strait to infect or get infected or risk to get infected.  No wonder the HIV/AIDS pandemic has continued to grow for the last two decades without any cure so far.

 

Messages quoting figures of various nature regarding the extent of the disease continue to flood various media outlets across the globe. We read that 21 percent of new infections of HIV/AIDS in Uganda are as a result of mother to child infection, while sex continues to be the leading mode of transmission of the disease.

 

Then we read that there are adults within the same country who have specialized in making money by operating brothels, despite the fact that prostitution is according to the law of the land, illegal.

 

We hear of anticorruption units, CID units and other security arms all located in the very cities and towns where this illegal business continues to enrich the corrupt, while peddling HIV AIDS like a usual product in the market.

 

We also have lawmakers across the globe who will do everything to convince the voters that they can make responsible laws on their behalf, yet years and years pass without any law being passed to address criminal offenses such as a parent knowingly going for a sexual encounter outside marriage, getting infected with the deadly disease, infecting the mother or father of the children, and even at times the unborn baby, knowingly.

 

As if this is not enough,  no known lawmaker has taken the initiative to address the eventual crime of siphoning the resources of families of such infected persons to the individual expenses of medical care, leaving the innocent children with unmet basic needs. 

 

The fact that rates of infection in developing countries such as Uganda are reported to be increasing now shows clearly that the media campaigns against the disease are far from reaching the mindset of the individual decision makers on matters of sex in a way that brings in a change of attitude towards the sexual act.

 

Obviously lacking is a message that will help the human race to conceptualize safe sexual activity as a high priority in each persons life, and then get a step further by actualizing this right mindset.

 

Now. There is an obvious indicator that the billions of dollars that has been so far spent on HIVAIDS prevention information dissemination has so far failed to stop the HIV/AIDS from increasing across the world.

 

This brings us to the question as to whether there might have been a wrong  approach to the various HIV/AIDS fighting strategies that are so far in place.

 

Time has come for the offenders such as those who choose to break their sexual commitments to one partner to be held liable to the consequences of the problems they create siphoning money that could have been used for development to buy expensive medication and food for them while the demands of the children they bear continue to heavily rely on persons who were not party to their decision to indulge in irresponsible sex.

 

Time has also come to review the reasons why despite the wide knowledge about HIV AIDS basics disseminated through the various partners fighting AIDS across the globe, many people still continue to do the very things that increase chances of contracting the HIV virus. 

 

This should go along with finding the solution to whatever it is so that the HIV/AIDS messages can start yielding reliably positive results. Let us find the best way to approach the mindset of mankind to accept that for instance it is not a prerequisite to enjoy sex at the expense of ones own future or that of a consenting or non consenting.

sexual partners.

 

The big job is in the need for an approach strong enough to help individuals adhere to one sexual partner once started. This means helping to create a generation that willfully buys the idea of retaining sex for marriage and family life.