Aids in India
India, being one of the most populated countries in the world, is suffering due to its poverty and lack of health care, allowing AIDS to rapidly spread among the region. AIDS - the acquired immuno deficiency syndrome, is spread by a virus called human immuno deficiency virus, also known as HIV. It's the preliminary stage of AIDS and it attacks our body's immune system, and increases the vulnerability against other diseases that will eventually kill the infected person. HIV does not kill the infected person instantly, but rather lingers in the body without noticeable signs, until the virus has wiped out the immune system. This process can take between six to eight years and is one of the reasons that the disease can spread unknowingly (Dube 5). AIDS is the later stage of HIV and is not curable. The symptoms for this disease include unexpected weight loss, enlarged glands, night sweats, diarrhea, fevers, chills and dry coughs. There is a limited amount of ways that the disease can spread, but the most prominent is through intercourse (Kalra 27). Other ways include blood transfusions, drug users that share a needle or syringe containing contaminated blood and through HIV positive women that give birth and
transmit the disease to their infant. (On page 4 there is a graph that illustrates these modes) (Graph data is found in Kalra p.26) The reason for the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India is because of poverty, illiteracy, lack of health care, drug abusers, and the oppression of Indian women (Dube 127). Poverty is one function that prevents the population from tools of prevention, such as condoms. It also forces many women to become sex workers to provide for themselves and whomever else they are supporting. Because of poverty the population is illiterate and cannot become educated on the methods that will enable prevent them from contracting AIDS. The lack of health care is another result of the country's poverty which holds the population back from getting the needed resources to deal with the epidemic. Furthermore, the drug abusing population shares their contaminated needles, which again spreads the disease. The most disturbing issue of how HIV/AIDS is spread is through the oppressed women. This is because even if a woman remains faithful to her husband, she must comply with his sexual desires. The husband on the other hand might not have been faithful, which in turn means that he might have the disease and has given it to his spouse. If the spouse tries to obtain medical treatment for her disease it brings shame on her family (Dube 52). This is
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