If the consequences of AIDS is not tackled immediately then the essential services such as health, welfare and justice will be severely weakened.
According to the UN, Aids is now the number one overall cause of death in Africa and is in fourth place among all causes of death worldwide.
The Aids epidemic began in Africa, but in many cases governments were slow to respond. The problem has been exacerbated by poverty, illiteracy, weak education and public health systems and the low social status of women.
To tackle the rising epidemic in HIV it is essential that the government take appropriate steps to improve the situation. This is why it is crucial that your government takes immediate action to reduce the epidemic.
At present I believe public health measures are the only way to stop the spread of HIV. This means that people can be educated about the spread of infection and encouraged to change their behaviours so as to protect themselves and others. Educating people to practice safer sex is probably the only control method currently available to health authorities, nevertheless, this could be introduced in more detail so that it can help reduce the number of people becoming infected with HIV. The transmission of HIV can also be controlled by using barrier methods, such as condoms and femidoms, during sexual intercourse. This again links in with educating people about the causes of HIV.
Better testing for HIV is a priority in many countries, to help carriers of HIV become aware of the fact. The UN says poor countries can achieve a lot by improving education and access to condoms, even if they cannot afford expensive drugs.
Finally, we have seen that AIDS and HIV are now widespread throughout sub-Saharan Africa from Uganda to South Africa. It is now a serious health problem because HIV infection makes people more vulnerable to existing diseases such as malnutrition, TB and malaria. AIDS is also having an adverse effect on the economic development of this country, and the purchase of expensive drugs drains government funds. This shows that immediate action must be taken in order for the number of epidemics to stay low, so that the economy will not be affected as much. If HIV cases decline then simultaneously the AIDS epidemics will fall too. Overall, this will then reduce the number of death cases and people becoming infected with the disease.
