Who has the upper hand in the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS, this deadly virus or we. Throwing up such intricate question, the White House’s top adviser on AIDS has warned that the world is losing the fight, aimed at controlling HIV/AIDS and that too when developing countries have access to anti-AIDS drugs.
This is quite a serious issue that has put a question mark on the credibility of the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS, stressing on the need of revamping it so that propitious results could be drawn out. It is quite shocking that where on one end, we are moving ahead, conquering the strongholds of HIV/AIDS, unfortunately,on the other end, more cases of HIV/AIDS are tumbling out. Expressing similar concern, Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Disease in the US, remarks:
For every one person that you put in therapy, six get infected. So we’re losing that game, the numbers game.
It is true that male circumcision has come out with positive results against HIV/AIDS, however, this fact could also not be ignored that each year this deadly virus manages to creep into around 600,000 lives, elongating the path of achieving dream of a world-free from HIV/AIDS. Following are some of the examples, which come out propping the claim made by the White House’s top adviser on AIDS:-
• There has been noticed an alarming rise in HIV/AIDS in Asia, which according to UNAIDS’ 2006 Epidemic Update led to around 630,000 AIDS-related deaths.
• There has been noticed surge in HIV/AIDS in the Middle East that alone in the year 2003 managed to engulf around 75,000 people there.
• In many countries of Eastern Europe & Central Asia, HIV/AIDS is fast encroaching upon that could be cited from the fact that in the year 2006 alone, around 270,000 people were newly infected with HIV.
These facts are enough to show that AIDS epidemic continues to devastate around the world, which confirms that final destination called ‘HIV/AIDS free world’ is still nothing more than a dream and in order to let this dream come true, it is pertinent to fuel the ongoing fight against HIV/AIDS further.
Via: Independent
