HIV AIDS ELUCIDATION
Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a serious and sometimes life-threatening disease caused
by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Estimated about 1,1 million Americans
are infected with HIV, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC). Approximately one-quarter (seperempat) of those infected are unaware of their status.
Human
immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a blood-borne virus typically transmitted via sexual intercourse (hubungan badan), shared intravenous paraphernalia (barang-barang), and mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), which can
occur during the birth process or during breastfeeding
(menyusui). The patient with HIV may
present with sign and symptoms (gejala) of any of the stages of HIV
infection. No physical findings are found those of the presenting infection or
illness.
The first case
was found in San Francisco on a gay in 1981. Until the end of the year of 1995,
the number of people infected HIV in the world were about 28 million, where 2.4
million of them were babies and kids and around 8500 people of new infection
happens daily. By September 1996, HIV/AIDS has infected 449 people aged 20-29
years old. The total number above was based on the official records which are actually
lower than its fact because of the incapability of health surveillance system
in our nation. HIV-AIDS problems in many countries indeed had been showing iceberg phenomena (fenomena gunung es) that what we look was smaller than its reality.
One way to
overcome the spread of HIV is by using condom. Condom is one of contraception equipment
which is used to prevent pregnancy (mencegah kehamilan), to manage born rate,
and prevent many kinds of sexual illness when someone doing sexual intercourse.
But on the other side, there are so many pros and cons caused of condom
campaign. One of the popular government programs was ATM Condom. ATM condom
released in 2003. The legalization of condom in Indonesia attracts so much
attention from our society. Some people agreed about that but some else denied.
Some people who decline condom legalization assume that if we legalize the
condom use, even though the users are not in the wedlock (status pernikahan), it seems we legalize an affair (perselingkuhan). In contrast, if ATM Condom doesn’t exist, the HIV
AIDS sufferer will increase day by day.
To sum up,
HIV-AIDS is potentially hazardous (berbahaya) to our health, so we have to
protect ourselves, our family and our environment from HIV-AIDS. There are the
simple things we can do to prevent it, we can called A-B-C-D Formula. A is Abstinence (menahan nafsu), it means
don’t ever do the sexual intercourse out of wedlock. B is Be Faithful (setia), it means we have to be loyal to our spouse. C
is using Condom (gunakan kondom), it means if the A and
B ways cant done. And D is Don’t use
drugs (hindari obat2an), it means
that drug abuse is very potential in spreading HIV-AIDS, especially from
injection.
1.
What
is your general opinion about this topic?
2.
What
are actually the causes of HIV-AIDS?
3.
Do
we have to avoid ODHA (AIDS Sufferer) to prevent HIV-AIDS?
4.
Why
do we have to agree with ATM Condom programs?
5.
How
do you think the ABCD Formula can prevent AIDS?
BENTENG
PANYNYUA ENGLISH CLUB
(Social Institution for
Education and Human Resources Development)
Secretariat of Activities: Fort Rotterdam Jl.
Penghibur No. 1, Makassar
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