World AIDS Day

Today is World AIDS Day. Let us all join hands and help spread AIDS awareness. Here's a start:

• AIDS stands for Acquired ImmunoDefficency Syndrome
• AIDS is caused by Human Immuno Virus(HIV)
• HIV attacks the body's white blood cells and damages the body's defenses against infection

HIV is known to spread in four main ways:

• Un-protected sexual intercourse
• From a mother to the foetus
• By using needles that have been already used on an infected person.
• Transfer of HIV infected blood.

India is one of the highest HIV infected countries in the world. More and more people are diagnosed with HIV and AIDS everyday.

This can be changed only with proper literacy about the disease. Let us not shun the poor souls that have been infected. Let us not look upon them as sinners. Let us look upon them as people who need our understanding and our support. Let us help our brothers and sisters overcome fear of the disease.