June is AIDS Awareness Month

This month is AIDS Awareness Month. With the prostitution becoming rampant and our youth's outlook on sex becomes more liberal, HIV is now becoming one of the fastest ever spreading virus in the planet.

Its high time that everybody should be made aware about the dangers of HIV and AIDS. In recent studies, most people cannot even distinguish the difference between HIV and AIDS and cannot even define them and their differences. What is more saddening is the fact that being unaware about the dangers of HIV and AIDS puts more people to risky behaviors along with their families to contacting HIV.

In order to make Non-Government Organization's (NGOs) goals work, it must be backed up by citizens who understands the nature of the opponent, which in this case, the HIV virus itself.
The fight against HIV/AIDS is long and the development of HIV vaccine is yet far from our reach. Cure and effective vaccine is all our hope to stop this society's menace. Citizens of the world, and all policy makers should all unite to fight HIV/AIDS now!

Sorry...

As with most of my other blogsites, I would like to apologize for not being able to update my blog for almost a month now. My mom's health predicament made me so much busy and rendered me incapable to do other things, hence my blogs slept. :)

Now that everything came back to normal, I promise to update my blogs. Be sure to check my other blogs as well. My main blog keeps the regular update because I can usually write almost anything in there, unlike this blog which caters only for health issues related HIV and AIDS.
You can check on my other blogs by clicking on the blogsites under the MY BLOGS on the right side of this blogscreen. Thanks!

Insurmountable Pain

I haven't been able to write something in my blog for the past 8 days due to my mom being at ICU at St. Raphael Foundation and Medical Center. She suffered massive blood loss because her lung tissues collapsed due to frequent coughing and add to that - infections. Now that her immune system dropped, she suffered from secondary bacterial infections such as Tuberculosis (TB), pneumonia, sepsis, a type of infection of the blood, which are now under control. But she is still being observed at the ICU and will yet to wait as to when she will leave ICU and be sent to an ordinary patient room though.

My heart bleeds everytime I see her suffering. This incident has caused my mother, me and my family a lot - emotionally, physically, mentally and all that stuff. I had to ask for all of my relatives' help just to buy my mom her medicine since I already run out of budget and all of my savings are gone for the hospital had to cancel all medicine supplies for my mom since our bill is getting really high and that I have to buy everything that she needs from dextrose, medicines, and all the liquid solutions that she needs while she is in ICU.

I am asking all your help to please pray for my mom and my family. May God help us to get through all this soon enough and help my mom recover completely. Thank you so much for reading. Thank you so much...

Jules

HIV Epidemic in Bangladesh

India is one of the countries abroad that is badly hit by HIV/AIDS epidemic. People in Bangladesh particularly is among the cities (just south of Pakistan) that is badly affected by the disease. In India alone, more than 5 million people were reported to have contracted the disease but the World Health Organization estimates that more than 8 million people are currently living with HIV in India.

The development of vaccine still remains a challenge for scientists in much the same way as treating the people who already are infected with the disease. Prevention is always better than cure and its always important to be aware of the risk factors that will put us more in danger of contracting HIV.

Local HIV/AIDS Conference

I was riding a jeepney along Balibago (Angeles City) when I happened to see a banner that says about conference HIV/AIDS blah blah blah... I was curious but did not gather enough urge to get off the PUJ (Public Utility Jeepney wehehehe) and join the conference (as if haha!). Too bad I wasn't able to snap a picture (which I usually do) lest, my precious phone might get snatched by unscrupulous citizens. =D (Bad me hehe).

I've always been interested in issues regarding HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis and other communicable disease and have planned on taking Medicine back in college but poverty killed that dream! LOL! I'm still battling with it but I think success is not yet within my reach. But looking at what I have gone through in life I believe that being a winner is relative and money is not always the basis to being a winner. A lot of rich people aren't even happy with it. My dad used to tell me that happiness should always be our end goal in whatever things we do; be it in our personal lives such as in a relationship and our work, i.e. professional lives.

Well, I just hope that scientists will be able to find the cure for these diseases soon and develop a vaccine to prevent others from being infected, too. Be safe everyone!