There is a health article that I want you to pay attention to. It is the results of a study conducted by the World Health Organization. (WHO) on the impact of AIDS on the lives of women.
GENEVA – In its first study of women's health around the globe, the World Health Organization said Monday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44.
Unsafe sex is the leading risk factor in developing countries for these women of childbearing age, with others including lack of access to contraceptives and iron deficiency, the WHO said. Throughout the world, one in five deaths among women in this age group is linked to unsafe sex, according to the U.N. agency.
"Women who do not know how to protect themselves from such infections, or who are unable to do so, face increased risks of death or illness," WHO said in a 91-page report. "So do those who cannot protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy or control their fertility because of lack of access to contraception."
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This is cause for major concern about our lifestyle habits. We have got to the ones who take full responsibility for our lifestyle habits.
If you don't have the information about HIV/AIDS please click onto this link. You will out what we are facing as women and what to do to help protect yourself.
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Monday, November 9, 2009
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Sex eduxation is key, I heard that china has 13 million abortions a year. Now if they are having that many people having unprotected sex imagine how many are being infected.
Very important article. I have worked in health care for more than 13 years. I have seen a lot of patients come and go, for a variety of reasons. But when it comes to HIV and AIDS, I cannot begin to tell you how devastating that disease has been to the black community, and to my own personal community, as well.
Sometimes I wish I could get the images out of my head, but I can't shake the faces of the people who literally, die right before my eyes.
A long time ago, I knew a woman named Coco. Yep. That was actually her real name. She was a beautiful sister, who could hold her own, intellectually. Always dressed to the nines, I thought she was a model, or a high paid fashion executive. Turns out, she was a prostitute. Long story short, she contracted HIV, which lead to AIDS.
The last time I saw her alive, she was sitting at a bar, draped in Dior, nose covered in cocaine, and drunk as a skunk! I had never seen her in that condition. Ever!
I asked her if she was OK. It took her a second or two to focus her eyes. Once she realized it was me, she started crying. Tears were gushing from her eyes, mascara running down her cheek. In between her gasps, she started telling that her boyfriend gave her AIDS. You could have knocked me over with a feather!
I asked her how she knew her boyfriend had infected her. She told me that she always used protection with her "tricks", and that the only person she had unprotected sex with, was her boyfriend. I asked her if she had been to a doctor. She said she had, and that she didn’t have much longer to live. This was the late 80s. Back then, AIDS was a definite death sentence.
God… this is difficult to write. I haven’t talked about Coco in years. I guess I needed to get that story off my chest. Sadly, Coco was the tip of the iceberg. Before all was said and done, I watched more people than I can count on my fingers and toes, die from complications due to AIDS. I started to feel like I was trapped in a demented episode of The Twilight Zone.
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I sincerely believe that sex education is important too. Obviously we are not getting the message across that protected sex is the way to go. I also believe we need to put a major emphasis on relationships as well. If you don't like the other person well enough to be involved with them for the rest of your life-don't make that happen by producing a baby with them.
Timothy,
We have had friends die from AIDS and it has been so heartbreaking to see how many of them were treated by their family towards the end of their lives. They were totally abandoned. My children's godfather was infected. He committed suicide by overdosing on drugs. That made me realize that our community needed to be educated and pushed towards having an entirely different attitude about this disease. We should not be leaving our own folks out in the cold with no one to support or comfort them towards the end of their life.
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