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Aids Prevention

Stamping Out Gender Discrimination To Prevent Hiv/aids

Stamping out Gender Discrimination
to Prevent HIV/AIDS

Anirudha Alam

Gender discrimination saps social consistency jeopardizing health and educational development. It is increasingly recognized as a key factor that makes women gravely vulnerable to AIDS and STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections). Improving and intensifying poverty reduction strategies pragmatically, overall development programs should be en-gendered. Otherwise development achievements may be endangered failing to contain epidemic.

Approximately 17.7 million women were living with HIV/AIDS in 2006 all over the world. Multiple vulnerabilities like social, cultural, economical and biological factors intertwined as a vicious circle may make prevalence sky-high anytime among women in the developing countries of Asia. So we have to raise a clarion call on combating the spread of epidemic through ensuring gender equality.

Gender discrimination promotes unequal access to resources and opportunities, sexual violence, practice of unprotected sex, women trafficking and women's paltry representation and participation in social development activities. All of this result in power disparities that characterize personal relationships between male and female undermine the development of not only women but also a nation to a great extent. In this context, capitalizing on capacity building initiatives for vulnerable women encompassing sensitization, training & orientation, exchanging information, experience & views and networking may play an important role to reduce the incidents of HIV as a whole.

Having significant and multifaceted impact on public health, education, technology, business and administration sector as well as on demography, household, macro economy and society on a great scale, HIV/AIDS continues to spread in Asia and the Pacific. Comprehensive HIV/AIDS prevention programs have been initiated successfully in some countries. Nonetheless several grave factors like illiteracy, gender inequality, unprotected extra marital sexual behavior, increasing use of intravenous drugs, isolation from generic health care services as well as lack of outreach treatment and care services are contributing to the spread of HIV/AIDS gradually from most-at-risk population to the general population. As a result, the number of HIV infections among women is increasing day by day. This is why focusing very appropriately and timely on the importance of women empowerment, policy makers should be made gender sensitized necessarily.

Adopting an inter-sectoral approach to gender equality and establishing links between gender, development and HIV/AIDS, vulnerable nations have to have technical supports to confront epidemic. There is no alternative to integrate gender into such major development areas as good governance, poverty alleviation, disaster management & recovery, sustainable environment promotion, information & development communication (IDC) as well as HIV/AIDS prevention.

An in-depth study entitled ‘The impact of women empowerment on HIV/AIDS prevention in Bangladesh' conducted by BEES (Bangladesh Extension Education Services) indicates that women are mostly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS due to their inherited conservative behavior, beliefs in superstitions and religious dogmas. They are deprived of enjoying their minimal rights as well. Consequently they are affected by gender discrimination severely. A recent survey initiated by Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallayan Foundation showed that only 22% young women (15-25 years) had heard of HIV/AIDS and do not know how to protect themselves from AIDS/STIs.

HIV/AIDS epidemic is mounting all over the world especially in the developing countries being the greatest impediment to human development. Young girls and women are greatly vulnerable due to their lack of power and means to protect themselves from practice of unsafe sex and ignorance as regards reproductive health. Through a gender lens, multisectoral development strategies should be both pro-poor and pro-women supporting the integration of HIV/AIDS prevention into the development planning activities. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are intended to halve extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. So in the course of reducing poverty, promotion of gender equitable behaviors through gender awareness will be able to contribute to reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS as per the desired achievement .

Anirudha Alam
Deputy Director
(Information & Development Communication) and Trainer
BEES (Bangladesh Extension Education Services)
183, Lane 2, Eastern Road, New DOHS
Mohakhali, Dhaka 1206
Bangladesh.
Website:http://www.bees-bd.org, http://www.newsletter.com.bd/anirudha

Phone:+8801718342876, +8802 9889732, +88029889733 (office), +88028050514 (res.)
E-mail: anirudha.alam@gmail.com, info@bees-bd.org, bees@worldnetbd.net

Ref: UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank

About the Author

Anirudha Alam is a prominent human resource development specialist and trainer. At present he is working in a national NGO and community based organization named BEES (Bangladesh Extension Education Services) as a Deputy Director (Information & Development Communication) and Trainer. He is one of the Executive Board Members of Bangladesh Project Management Institute (BPMI) as well. He writes and edits more than forty books and a good number of articles on various issues like human resource development, training, women empowerment, human rights, education awareness, social development, income generating activities, environment awareness, reproductive health, HIV/AIDS awareness, juvenile literature, short stories and so on. His noteworthy books are Kulsums and Karims (a collection of success stories of disadvantaged people of Bangladesh), Kulsums (a collection of success stories of disadvantaged & destitute women of Bangladesh), The Reflections (a collection of posters on literacy & education of Bangladesh), Towards a New hope, Social Assistance Message Collection, Social Assistance Advocacy Manual, Eaisab Rat Din (a collection of juvenile poems), Du Sha Bachharer Sera Bangla Kishor Galapa (a collection of juvenile Bengali stories of two hundred years) etc.

Website: http://anirudhaalam.onsugar.com/

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Aids Prevention

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:22:53 +0000

Colloidal silver has been widely known to be an effective alternative treatment method for bacterial infections; its antibacterial properties help a person boost or help their immune system to cope with severe or chronic diseases. Colloidal silver is sold as distilled water that has microscopic silver nano particles in it.

Back in the year 1990, the Albert Einstein College of medicine in New York City studied the effects and the benefits of small currents of electricity applied directly to the blood, normally through electrodes placed in one artery. The research shows that majority of the diseases that are caused by viruses, bacteria, microbes, germs, pathogens, and parasites can be treated and controlled through the electrification of a patient's blood. In fact, their research shows that if a patient's blood stream receives a current of 50 to 100 microamperes all the viruses and bacteria are eliminated. Once they are eliminated, the bacteria are removed from the blood stream through the kidneys, liver, and lymph. It is thought that colloidal silver is similarly effective in controlling infection in the body.

In the case of AIDS and HIV treatment, colloidal silver attacks the virus and prevents them from affecting healthy body cells and especially the CD4 T helper cells in the immune system. Opportunistic infection is the major problem encountered by AIDS/HIV patients who develop an impaired immune system; It is reported that by using colloidal silver, patients can prevent or reduce infection complications and boost their immune system. Colloidal silver is reported as being very effective in boosting a person's immune system and thus helping them prevent or control the development of AIDS in the body or at the very least maintain a patient's health condition.

Aside from AIDS/HIV, colloidal silver is also effective in treating and preventing other maladies. Studies have shown that colloidal silver's antibacterial properties are effective in treating wounds and skin burns. In fact, doctors in 2007 used silver sulfadiazine (topically applied and similar in action to colloidal silver) to treat skin burns. Research shows that colloidal silver is an effective treatment method for skin wounds and burns as its antibacterial properties are effective in killing infections as well as speed up healing and preventing further infections.

In fact, it is so effective that some wound dressings have embedded colloidal silver in them which helps in controlling infection in the wounds. During the manufacturing of the bandage, nano-crystalline particles of silver or colloidal silver are incorporated into the bandage making it more effective in preventing infections as well as speeding up the healing process of the skin. Colloidal silver is also known to be used in medical appliances such as catheters; this helps in preventing and controlling urinary tract infections which can occur when a patient uses a catheter. Colloidal silver is often used to treat ear, staph and intestinal infections; as well as, leukemia, conjunctivitis and other kinds of diseases.
Because of its reported effectiveness against aids, colloidal silver has the potential to be one of science's most important discoveries. The benefits of colloidal silver seem to be overwhelming which is why a lot of health stores and websites are selling them as health supplements. If you are interested in colloidal silver and its reported benefits, consult your doctor about it.

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