World Aids day

Outbreaks appear to be exacerbated around the world from time to time, whether it is HIV, rabies, or covid. On World AIDS Day 2021, the human race is recently overcoming the losses from another giant virus, Covid 19.

2021 Theme: END INEQUALITIES. END AIDS. END PANDEMICS.

This World AIDS Day, UNAIDS is highlighting the urgent need to end the inequalities that drive AIDS and other pandemics around the world.

Without bold action against inequalities, the world risks missing the targets to end AIDS by 2030, as well as a prolonged COVID-19 pandemic and a spiraling social and economic crisis.

Forty years since the first AIDS cases were reported, HIV still threatens the world. Today, the world is off track from delivering on the shared commitment to end AIDS by 2030, not because of a lack of knowledge or tools to beat AIDS, but because of structural inequalities that obstruct proven solutions to HIV prevention and treatment.

The Covid effect in past years has adversely affected the ambition to reduce 90 percent of new HIV infections, treat and reduce 90 percent discrimination by 2030. Today, we would like to commemorate the HIV-positive and affected people living in remote villages of Nepal and with limited access to health facilities. Their limited access to the health center to count CD4, to get an ARV, due to COVID impact and panic demands more advocacy to HIV infected people of Nepal.

The concerned agencies and government should pay attention to the families who are suffering from the effects of both Covid aftermath and living with HIV.

World AIDS Day first calls on us to speak openly about sexual and reproductive health and rights, carrying various banners, signs, and promotional materials with red ribbons, organizing various rallies, gatherings, seminars to spread awareness about HIV / AIDS.

HIV and AIDS are two different things, HIV is a virus that causes AIDS. HIV is now considered more of an infection than a disease worldwide.

Not every HIV-infected person has AIDS. Today, HIV-positive people are getting the same comfortable and long life as others by adopting regular use of medicine and undergoing a healthy lifestyle. Their medicines are freely available in various government health institutions of the Nepal government.

Today, on World AIDS Day, lamps are lit for the eternal peace of the souls of all those infected with HIV. Until a decade ago, HIV was an epidemic in Nepal, an epidemic is an infection that can happen to anyone.

Due to the increasing support and investment of governmental and non-governmental organizations, the knowledge and public awareness of HIV among Nepalis is increasing and today HIV has become a concentrated epidemic. Now the prevalence of HIV is concentrated within a certain risk group population. The Government of Nepal has set up a National AIDS and STD Control Center in Teku Kathmandu to deal with issues related to HIV and its multifaceted impact, especially on HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Just as HIV became an epidemic only in a targeted group, so too is COVID-19 expected to decrease soon. The world desperately needs a vaccine for both HIV and covid.
 Stay safe everyone

Suyog Dhakal