This month it was reported in our national newspaper The Australian, that the rate of continuing new Aids infections indicates that there has not been any dramatic success in curtailing the spread of the disease throughout the world over the last decades.

The statistics quoted were that 34 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2010 and that the rate of newly infected HIV patients is still high, at 7000 a day, as reported by the UNAIDS agency of the United Nations.

Over the last three decades there have been nearly 30 million people die from AIDS.

Although there is a recognized difference between the two conditions, it is certainly the official medical opinion that HIV leads to AIDS. To quote the spokesman Michel Sidibe, executive director of UNAIDS “It is a major problem; it is a major, major major issue.”….

It is apparently a particularly serious issue in India and South Africa.

In spite of enormous amounts of money poured into the cause to fight the global problem, represented by one year’s contribution of three countries alone – the U.S.($3.165 billion) Britain ($658 million) and the Netherlands ($ 389 million) the methods of control are proving to be less than successful.

The former US President Bill Clinton, a long standing worker against Aids offers a practical note that accents wastage of funds. Others can no doubt contribute their suggestions.

We hear less about AIDS nowadays.  We wonder ……

Has AIDS ceased to be a ‘sensational’ item in the minds of the Press ?

Are the ‘controllers’of the situation and medical professors less than proud as to the degree of success that has been achieved through the present methods used to curtail the disease?

Are there simple financial resource tangles that require severe attention to correct graft within the international management of contributed funds?

What monies are being poured into treatment and what into prevention?

Are there educational programmes to instruct people that it is imperative to cease sexual behaviour that provides the basic invasion of the natural immune system?  Or does modern lack of moral codes and excessive permissiveness accent ‘tolerance’ to the extent that simple physiological science is ignored along with rules of hygiene?

It is not likely that we will see a global cure for this and other serious diseases until the fundamental corrections are encouraged and a vision is perceived re the true causes.

Tags: AIDS and other sexually based disease, battle against AIDS, better health and hygiene necessary, new approach to morals, sex life

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