Now a day AIDS is increasing all over the world in an enormous position. No country could face it successfully. It turns very unique position in some countries of Africa like Uganda, Gayer, Cambodia, and Sub Sahara region etc. East Asian some countries are also affected by this. In South Asian country like India is the second largest country in the world for HIV/ AIDS. There are 5.1 million people carry or suffer of this. It will be the main reason of our country for vulnerable of HIV/ AIDS. Because we have to depend in various reason of that country.

Mainly our internal Business fully depends on it. Such there many way we bound to go India. Burma is another neighbor country is already a large number affected in here. AIDS surveillance specialist Mr. Parvage Shajjad Mollik said, “There are so many cultural values and socio economical systems are responsible for this increasing like this dieses, poverty and illiteracy is also responsible for this increasing. This indicator is not fully responsible but it helps to change behavior on so that. So if we want to prevent of this at first we have to emphasize to try to change sexual behavior. We did success to find out our vulnerable target groups and why they become vulnerable”.

HIV/ AIDS is a sexual disease, but it is deferent from other sexual transmission disease (STDs, STI). Other STDs have proper medicine and these diseases don’t create cause of die, but AIDS is very dangerous, there are no any alternative way to survive after it infection, it can end of life. We find out first vulnerable group in Bangladesh is injection drug user (IDUs) and second is professional sex worker. There are many reason every year are increasing IDUs all over in Bangladesh.

It easy to get in every location in Bangladesh and chipper than other is the main reason for this; other reasons are political and socio-economical frustrations. Last year 4th surveillance report was about 4% IDUs are infected with HIV/AIDS all over in Bangladesh, but after one year we see the one area of Dhaka City this raise to 8.9%, this report we get from 5th surveillance survey. This ratio will be clouded in our social norm and can help to hamper our economical condition. Our country is very poor so we are not able to face a large number of patients like this disease.

So we have to take necessary steps to prevent it’s increasing. We need several level of advocacy champing to build up awareness of HIV/AIDS. We need to encourage gender/ reproductive health education, which not only prevent HIV/AIDS but also help to prevent others STDs/STI (Sexual Transmission Disease). We can influence our government education authority to include about HIV/AIDS details our primary and secondary level’s curriculum.

Gender education is essential in our country’s adolescent boys & girls. This education can play a vital role of empowerment our illiterate society. It can help to develop our adolescent into a proper knowledge. Religious superstition & fundamentalism prevents to get such kind of education from their childhood. But this knowledge is very important for mental & physical development, it can help their social interaction, social behavior, reproductive health & sanitation, sexual behavior, to able to adopt all kinds of social change, to awareness them of their rights etc. Individually lack of knowledge these one can create other problems.

We also increase peer educator for professional sex worker, peer educator means a group of person or individual who are take from target group or brothel to give them proper training. After training they can able to awareness others.

We need to take TGP (Target Group Promoter) strategy for residence or other sex worker. It is very affected for residence sex workers or hidden sex workers. TGP is a newly invention idea (Proved by Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation) which help to prevent HIV/AIDS. TGP is a one kind of source/ broker/ sealer (Called in Bengali is Dalal), who collects clients/ customers for residence sex workers; they encourage people to buy sex. Without TGP (Their nominated source) the residence sex worker doesn’t allow any new client. TGP will play a vital roll in our action. Residence Sex Workers (RSW) lives together three to ten in a house. They continue their business under a Guidance or Governance or a Teem Leader (is called Sharderni in Bengali).

These teem leaders communicate with some local people, who help them by delivering customer or client, these people is called source (in Bengali called Dalal). They depend on each other. Some times those sources shelter them from local unexpected situation or from police harassment. If we could continue this action then TGP will play very important role. Because residence sex workers don’t stay long time in a house, they change their house after three to six months, but they always keep contact with their source (TGP) for continuing their business. For this reasons TGP is very important programme.

In some areas a group of drug user uses one syringe when they take drug. It is very dangerous for increasing HIV/AIDS. So we should try to alert them, and give advice them two or more drug user don’t use drug by a one syringe.

Prevention is always better than cure. This principle holds a phenomenal significance when it comes to HIV/AIDS. AIDS is one such disease that does not have any permanent cure. Available treatment options are only effective in reducing the symptoms associated with the disease. In such scenario, it is important to have adequate protection so that you do not get the infection.

Preventive measures for persons who are HIV-negative

1. It is important to understand all details pertaining to HIV and the way it is transmitted from person to person. One should also have an idea about various symptoms associated with AIDS.

2. Creating public awareness regarding HIV and AIDS by means of educational programs

3. Having a sexual pleasure with a stranger can be dangerous. One should never enter into any such an act. Make sure your partner is not infected with HIV.

4. One should never engage in unprotected sex. One should always use condoms. Latex condoms are more useful than those made of polyurethane.

5. A circumcision performed under a medical supervision can reduce the risk of an HIV infection.

6. HIV can also get transmitted through infected needles and other sharp instruments. Hence, it is always good to use a clean and sterilized needle while injecting drugs. New razor blades should be used while shaving.

7. Blood transfusion is another important mode of HIV transmission. Hence, it is always better to have blood that has been screened and is negative for HIV and other STIs.

Preventive measures for persons infected with HIV

1. The best preventive measure is to completely abstain from having sex. Always follow safe sex practices such as use of condoms and avoiding any oral or anal intercourse. Sexual devices used by HIV positive individuals should not be shared with others. By this way, one can prevent the spread of this disease to others.

2. One should never shares needles, syringes, razors, toothbrushes or blades with others. These items can become a potential source of transmission.

3. An HIV-positive individual should never donate blood or organs. Any such donation can cause the disease to spread to other individuals.

4. If the partner with whom an HIV-positive individual had sex is pregnant, it is always better to share with her the fact about your condition. An early treatment can help in preventing the disease within the woman as well as the child.

AIDS and HIV are words that can still provoke feelings of fear and anxiety in many people today — and this in spite of the fact that this viral infection is no longer the killer it once was. With the advent of sophisticated drugs used in combination therapy, HIV has become a largely manageable condition, something that can be successfully lived with.

Where HIV was once shrouded in mystery, and even called ‘God’s vengeance’, today we know that HIV is a viral infection that may be acquired through a few well-established routes.

We know that HIV transmission can occur through sexual contact, blood-to-blood contact, such as sharing hypodermic needles, and passed from mother to baby during pregnancy, the birthing process or through infected breast milk.

HIV simply cannot be transmitted through activities such as hugging or most kissing, nor can it be acquired from toilet seats, shared eating utensils, glasses, cups or plates etc. because of this there is no real need to be anxious about these particular areas. In fact, HIV is such a fragile virus – or, to be exact, a ‘retrovirus’ – that the virus can survive for only a brief period of time when outside of the body.

Though HIV infection has been with us for more than 30 years, many people still remain uninformed about it and how it may be acquired. Because of this, HIV-AIDS continues to cause much irrational fear and anxiety — and prejudice. This kind of irrational fear can often be quite easily cleared through education, a basic understanding of the means by which HIV is transmitted, and knowledge of how it can be prevented.

Prejudice, though, in any shape or form, can be more difficult to counter. Only when we are aware of the reason for our prejudices and are prepared to see prejudice for what it really is can it be vanquished.

But apart from the fear and anxiousness that can come from basic ignorance and blind prejudice, there is also another form of fear that can develop regarding HIV-AIDS and this is what has come to be known as ‘AIDS Phobia’.

People who have this disorder – and there is an overlooked and sizable demographic – remain extremely worried and often paranoid about contracting the infection despite being educated about HIV, being reassured by doctors and health advisors, and even having taken blood tests which prove that they are not infected and so have no reason to be fearful or remain anxious. Such people are what has been referred to as ‘the worried well’. For these individuals, HIV-AIDS phobia is an extreme form of anxiety disorder.

Over the past several years, working both in private practice and as a consultant psychotherapist for one of the largest HIV and sexual health organizations in Europe, I have worked with a number of different people who were experiencing this particular problem and have seen how truly incapacitating it can be. It is an anxiety disorder that completely side-steps rationality and logic, so that no matter how often the person is assured and re-assured that they have not contracted HIV-AIDS, and so have no reason to worry, they persist in their belief that they may indeed be infected.

Based on experience, I believe the word ‘phobia’ is, in fact, inappropriate here, because it sounds like something that can be quite easily treated with simplistic measures such as a couple of NLP or EFT techniques, simple desensitization, or a few counseling sessions. ‘Phobia’ suggests that it is nothing more serious than a fear of spiders or elevators or having to stand up and talk in front of other people. This in no way minimizes the real difficulties experienced by people who have these common phobias, but these things are true phobias and so can very often be cleared in just a couple of brief sessions using the right kind of therapeutic techniques.

Though AIDS Phobia can be successfully treated, it appears to be very different in nature to ordinary phobias, and so usually resists such treatment.

In my experience, AIDS Phobia is less of a simple phobia than it is a mental health issue closely aligned to obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.

Because of this, I prefer to call AIDS phobia ‘HIV Anxiety Disorder’, or HIV AD.

People experiencing HIV AD share many of the same symptoms as those diagnosed with OCD. These include fear about safety and security, thinking or feeling that objects are dirty or contaminated, worrying about health and hygiene, and intrusive, disturbing thoughts about aggression or sex.

Underlying issues connected with sex, sexual orientation, the fear of illness, abandonment, or of death very often pre-exist the appearance of HIV Anxiety Disorder.

Often the person presenting with HIV AD has experienced a strict upbringing in which sex was very much a taboo subject, or in which certain forms of sexual expression were frowned upon, or have undergone premature sexualization experiences, and so powerful feelings of guilt have been subconsciously associated with the sexual urge and these have then become internalized.

For others, sickness, death of a significant other, or the sense of being abandoned or rejected at some stage in their development, has left them with an underlying sense of real fear. Very often fear and guilt combine, and when these powerful emotions come together the ground is fertile for HIV Anxiety Disorder.

Treatment involves going to the cause of the fear and resolving both this and any guilt that may be driving the disorder. This means uncovering those earlier, initial sensitizing events that laid the groundwork and in all probability preceded the actual HIV AD symptoms, and then re-processing the subconscious mind’s interpretation of such events so that it can clear the anxiety. This is most effectively accomplished through the use of hypnosis and hypnotherapy strategies, which allows direct access to the subconscious mind. When this is achieved, then the person can be taught cognitive strategies that enable him or her to examine irrational thoughts and better process them in the future, thereby better managing or lessening the anxiety.

Like OCD, HIV Anxiety Disorder or AIDS Phobia can take longer to treat than other simple phobias, and progress is not necessarily linear, but the good news is that it can be successfully treated.

If you or someone you care about is experiencing excessive anxiety or an irrational fear of HIV-AIDS then do not despair, help is available. Contact a competent and well-trained hypno-psychotherapist who has experience in this area and free yourself from this unnecessary anxiety.

DISCLAIMER: This article is provided for general information purposes only, and should not be treated as a substitute for the medical or psychological advice of your own doctor or health care professional.

AIDS is a scary disease. There is no treatment for it and we all know that at present, the only choice is controlling the symptoms of the disease before it becomes full-blown AIDS. But unless patients start with the antiretroviral treatment there is no actual hope for controlling the disease!

Let’s take a closer look at the statistics!

When HIV was first identified, in the year 1980, researchers were caught unaware about the potency of the virus and what it could do. Initially sheer ignorance caused the disease to become so widespread, that at a certain time, hospitals were flooded with patients who had the disease and did not know it yet! Scientists at the National Institute of Health estimated that several million patients contracted the disease through casual sex, infected needles and of course blood transfusions. But with the formulation of antiretroviral therapy, patients have been able to lead a much better quality of life free of the crippling stigma of the disease.

But there are problems with the treatment too!

At the present time, antiretroviral medication is prescribed by a trained doctor who chooses the medicines to control and prevent the replication of the virus in the human body. But the medications are expensive and hard to find, especially in developing countries like Africa and Asia. The cocktail of drugs also cause severe side effects like diarrhea, vomiting, fluctuation in blood cells etc. Another worrying concern is that with constant use over the last two decades, several people have developed resistance to the drugs which are used in the AIDS treatment regime. For the thousands more who get infected everyday, this is not at all good news! The onus then falls on research companies and pharmaceutical labs to find newer and better medications that work. As the research continues, it stands to reason that the medication will be expensive and do on.

Everything is not doom and gloom!

I agree that it does look bad for all patients who are infected at present with the scary disease. But it’s not all that bad. In order to assist the fight against the disease, pharmacy majors like Merck and Abbot has decreased prices on several of their most commonly used antiretroviral medications. The US government has also stepped up with promoting the use of generic antiretroviral medication over the branded ones. The government has stressed the fact that there is no difference in the formulation of the brand-name or the generic medication but the cost of the generic medication will be significantly lower.

Do not self prescribe!

The strong range of antiretroviral medications is not something that you can prescribe for yourself for your condition. It is very necessary that you get in touch with a doctor to find out the risks and benefits of the different therapy regimes before you start on them. The next best thing is to find out the exact stage you are in as regarding your disease. Please remember that individual responses to treatments vary. Get your viral load checked every three months and change your medication regularly.

There might seem to be hope, but we can still hope for an AIDS cure can’t we?

If you have recently been diagnosed with HIV or AIDS, it is important that you learn how to effectively cope with the HIV/AIDS stigma. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus diagnosis is one of the most challenging that one may receive in their lifetime. AIDS is considered to be the final stages of HIV.

If you have received a diagnosis, it is important that you have a solid support system in place. Unfortunately, most individuals actually discriminate against those that are diagnosed with the condition. While this is a devastating fact, it is an actuality. It is important that you learn to effectively cope with the HIV/AIDS stigma and in this guide; you will learn how to do just that.

In order to effectively cope with the HIV/AIDS stigma, you must first understand the reasons why it exists. First, and foremost, most individuals have a natural fear of dying. Given the fact that the virus is deadly, many will try to separate themselves from you. Yes, many do so because of the fact that they fear contracting the illness.

However, many will do so because they understand that you may eventually die from HIV/AIDS. This is a normal defense mechanism that occurs in those that are attempting to protect their own emotional well-being. The fear of death, the fear of coping with death, and the fear of contracting the virus contributes heavily to the HIV/AIDS stigma that exists today.

If you are trying to cope with the HIV/AIDS stigma as a patient, it is important to learn as much as you possibly can regard the condition. You should also attempt to join support groups and encourage your friends and relatives to do the same. Not only do support groups offer emotional support, they also offer educational support.

There are many organizations that focus on assisting those with HIV and AIDS as well as those that are close to the patient. If you gain an understanding of why the HIV/AIDS stigma exists and follow these strategies, you will be able to cope in an effective manner.

HIV/AIDS is often referred to as a silent epidemic because of its long incubation period. It means the disease may have infected a person for years already without any concrete symptoms. A person who is positive for HIV/AIDS may even infect other persons with this illness if he/she is unaware of his/her own condition.

The infection of HIV can be divided into various phases. However, in most cases, these phases are hard to discern from one another. The health of the infected person is actually dependent on the immune system of the individual which may also dictate the complications that might take place.

These days, HIV/AIDS is considered a chronic disease since an infected person may live for several more years due to the benefits of antiretroviral therapy. While the symptoms of HIV/AIDS are really hard to determine, below are some of the common things that happen to those who are infected by HIV/AIDS:

• Oral thrush
• Recurrent herpes infections
• Fever of unknown origin
• Persistent cough
• Diarrhea
• Weight loss. Those with HIV/AIDS can be observed to lose weight along the way since their immune system has been affected
• Fatigue. Most HIV/AIDS patients experience fatigue also because of the effects on their immune system
• Bacterial skin infections
• Night sweats
• Patients who are more advanced in the disease experience major problems due to opportunistic infections or cancers, such as:
• Cerebral toxoplasmosis
• Pneumocystis pneumonia
• Cytomegalovirus infection of retina or gut
• Tuberculosis
• Disseminated Mycobacterium avium infection
• Lymphoma
• Kaposi’s sarcoma which is a rare form of skin cancer
• Dementia

HIV/AIDS can be a very deceiving illness since a patient may remain very healthy for a long time with no symptoms at all although the virus is progressively destroying his immune defenses. This is what makes it hard to diagnose early. There are cases when the patients would be diagnosed when they are almost at the terminal phase making it really difficult to reconstitute, even partially, the immune system. With this, there is an apparent need to raise the awareness of the public about this disease. This disease is such a traitor and may infect other without them knowing it. The information of this disease must be widely spread especially among poor countries where the disease is rampant.