Date: 4 Dec 2007 14:37:34 -0000 From: "Bonefacio Lopes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Ministry of Health should conduct some AIDS counselling lessons, skits, Musical shows for AID victims, there could be many people in Goa who are suffering due to AIDS quietly, there are also many who know they are infected and infecting other innocent lives. > Mario observes: > It is a little too late for those who already have HIV/AIDS, other than expensive treatment which sometimes works fairly well. If they know they have the virus and continue to deliberately infect others it would be considered a serious crime in the US, and I hope it is a serious crime elsewhere. > Bonefacio wrote: > The youth are the pillars of tommorrow and if they are not made aware or protected on the deadly killer AIDS then as elders we have done nothing.
It is the responsibility of each and every Goan as well as Non Goans to contribute positively and immediately in awakening the awareness of AIDS in Goa by highlighting the essence of abstinence, honesty between couples, compulsory testing and above all Prayer. > Mario observes: > I hope the prayer you are referring to is that people who are prone to the well known risky behavior that causes them to get infected, experience an epiphany. > During previous pandemics one could pray that the virus or infection, generally airborne or transmitted through food or water, did not get to you. > In this pandemic, with the exception of the really innocent victims like babies born to infected mothers or unsuspecting wives and husbands infected by their spouses, those who get infected actually have to work quite hard at it, most engaging in risky behavior repeatedly. Cases of transmission from blood transfusions are very rare today. I recently heard of several unsuspecting patients who were infected through organ transplants from one infected donor. This, too, is likely to be the exception and unlikely to happen again. > The bottom line is that this is a pandemic whose growth should have been easy to stop because almost everyone knows by now what they have to do to avoid getting infected. This is the message that the youth need to learn and understand. > On the other hand, the risky behaviors that spread this deadly disease are based on human weaknesses, frailties and addictions, and so it continues while causing massive misery and suffering and using untold economic resources that could have been spent on other human needs. >