AIDS
is a serious disease. It was discovered a few years ago. In these disease the
body’s immune system does not react tp infection, and because of this,
sufferers in over 70% of case succumb to it. When first discovered as a disease
entity, the causative organism was not identifield. A great deal of research
has been carried out to isolate the causative organism, and it has recently
been discovered that it is due to a
virus which invades special cells in the body and this results in the failure
of the body’s defence mechanism.
AIDS
is infectious and can easily be passed from one person to another, usually by
sexual intercourse with someone suffering from it. Other methods of
transmission are through blood transfusions donated by people suffering from
AIDS drug addicts. The disease is most often seen in homosexuals, mainly men
although women do get it too, and mortality as i have said is pretty high. The
number of people who contact AIDS is increasing, and since 1982 the incidence
has almost doubled.
As
AIDS is due to a virus, cure is extremely difficult because no known antibiotic
on orther medication is effective against viruses. This is what is frightening
about it. It is also known that having several sxual partners in quick
succession increases the risk contracting AIDS, so that promiscuity has many
more dangers than people solution in a disease like this, and to a large extent
you can prevent it by not indulging in promiscuity, which is such a popular
past-time for many people who do not subscribe to worthy values and codes that
influence their behaviour, sexual or otherwise.
Note
the repercussions of veneral disease on your health, your family and other
people who can be infected through intercourse with you. Of course you may say
“ They can be cured, can’t they?” Yes, if treatment is conscientiously and
completely carried out. The tragedy of the matter is that so many of the people
who are infected don’t realize they are and even when they do, they are afraid
to go for treatmeant. Their parents may hear about it, and they can’t face their
parents. If they are married and venereal disease is diagnosed, the other
partner has to be examined as well. This keeps many people away from
treatment.they don’t want anyone to know. Among those who do go for treatment,
many don’t realize that though the discharge has disappeared, the infection is
probably still present. A full course of treatment is required. Remember,
prevention is better and much more important than cure.
Is
it necessary to be involved in sex with as many partners as possible, and
sometimes with a very little information about these casual partners? Think of
the number of people who can be and are affected when sexual permissiveness is
the order of the day. And think of the many dangers health . besides all this,
think of the unnesessary trauma that those who are close to you will undergo.
Think of how your husband or wife willreact if they find out that you have
these disease to them. Are the dangers to health and happiness worth the kind
of sexual laxity that certain people practise and preach.
There
are many irresponsible adults who laugh about V.D.-who will tell you not to
worry about it. One penicillin jab, they say, will cure you, so why deprive
yourself of all the fun in sex? Beware of these people who have no standards,
no values. Veneral disease is nothing to be proud of neither is sexual
permissiveness. I have said this before, and i have already said that the
gonococcal infection of the eyes of the newborn can lead to blindness. The effects
of congetinal syphilis include increased mortality risk, certain skeletal
deformities and reduced efficiency of certain vital organs like the liver. You
must make your own standards of behaviour.
One
final word about veneral disease. We know that veneral disease exist, and will
continue to, but there is no earthly reason why we should suffer from the
disease. You cant prevent yourself from contracting veneral disease. It is a
matter of self discipline. However, if you do expose yourself to it and there is
the slightest, and again i say the slightest suspicion that you may be
infected, then go for medical attention at once. Don’t neglect yourself, for
what you are and what your health is depend so much on you yourself.
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