Five Things You Should Know about World AIDS Day

Every year, we celebrate World AIDS Day we lot of enthusiasm and pledge to eradicate it from the world. Once the celebration is over, very few people are concerned about it. However, considering the fact that this disease is spreading like an epidemic, it will be better if we take steps to get our facts correct and ensure that more and more people can be saved from this deadly disease. It should also be noted here that apart from AIDS medicine information, keeping these facts in mind will also help you in saving yourself and your partner from a deadly situation.

Things about AIDS that you should keep in mind

Here are few things that you should keep in mind in relation to AIDS. Let's take a look:

Treatment for HIV AIDS have now become affordable for many more people: A decade ago, the situation was such that the treatment for HIV AIDS was not affordable to all. It was extremely costly. However now, the cost for the treatment of AIDS has reduced a lot. Thus, more and more AIDS infected people will now be able to afford the treatment and lead a better life.

Scale up the medical treatment of AIDS patients speedily: The rate at which presently patients are getting medical treatment for AIDS is quite slow. The speed of providing treatment to the patients should speed up immediately. Special care should be taken so that newborns, infants and children can immediately get the medicines and required treatment.

AIDS is killing more people in developing countries compared to developed countries: This is an important fact that should be kept in mind. More than 1.6 million people die every year from various illnesses related to AIDS. Some of these include pneumonia, tuberculosis and meningitis, etc. All these are curable diseases. However, the fact is that no authentic information is available in relation to where these people are dying or whether they know about the disease, etc. Extensive research is required in order to bring all people under the medical umbrella.

Options to save more lives are available: New and innovative treatment and medicine information is available all over the world. Moreover, health ministries across the nations are eager to share medical information in order to eradicate the disease from this world. Many health organizations create a group of patients wherein one patient is given the responsibility of collecting the medicine and distributing it to others. This encourages bonding and saves people from physical hardships of traveling. These small steps play a great role in helping more and more people to get medication for AIDS.

Developing countries will lead the path to eradicate AIDS from the world: Government across Africa, Asia and Caribbean have started various campaigns in order to make people aware of HIV and AIDS. They are also taking steps to make sure that medications are also available to more and more people. 

Keeping these 5 major things in mind will help make any AIDS campaign successful. One should be sympathetic towards AIDS patients so that they will be able to cope up with the disease easily.