SOCIAL mobilization against the dreaded Human Immune Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome remains to be the most practicable way prevent its spread, agree members of the Provincial HIV AIDS Multi-sectoral Council (PHAMC) at the universal commemoration of the Word AIDS Day December 1.
The day is what the United Nations World Health Organization designated to commemorate those people who have been wasted by the disease and to advocate for those affected by the HIV who are not yet given the access to all support they can get.
Carrying this years theme: Universal Access and Human Rights, the PHAMC which spearheads along with Philippine Red Cross Youth (PRCY) also agree that many things need to be done to elevate people’s awareness on the dangers of HIV and other forms of sexually transmitted infections than can lead to the disease.
Among the many things, social mobilization against the disease would seem to be the most immediate and is where most people in the community can get involved.
In his message, PRCY master trainer in HIV AIDS education and volunteer Stephen Bryan Yu Bongcaras pointed out that since HIV AIDS became a global phenomenon, some 1.8 million people have died, most of them coming from poor and developing countries like the Philippines.
Of this, some 33.3 million people are still living with HIV, and 2.3 million of them are children who may gave inherited the virus from birth, he said during a message he gave at the commemorative program held at the ICM Activity Center.
The bigger concern however is that the disease continues to prowl on the unsuspecting would be victims.
While the disease has been noted since late 1980’s, the search for cure has been a failure, and the only medical management has been mainly on the anti-retro-viral therapy, said Dr. Wilnilia Causing, HIV AIDS Core Team Leader at Governor Celestino Gallares Hospital, during the open forum.
Anti retroviral therapy only slows the affectation and retards the infection from HIV to the most dreaded AIDS.
While governments have been focusing on the disease lately, Dr. Fruserma Mary Uy said the management is not that accessible to the patients, thus the universal call.
The Bohol commemoration started off with a 9:00 am motorcade from the plaza Rizal to Island City Mall where the program was set.
An open forum on HIV AIDS moderated by PIA ensued where people attending the activity shot questions and points of clarifications from PHAMC member panelists. (racPIABohol)
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