Health is perhaps the most valuable thing a person has. But, unfortunately, they begin to understand this only by loosing it.
AIDS is one of the most common incurable diseases of our time. This terrible abbreviation stands for “acquired immune deficiency syndrome”, which develops because of HIV infection. HIV undermines the immunity of the sick person, the immune system ceases to cope with its tasks and the patient’s health is infected with various diseases that completely mow down a person. By simple words, AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection. This disease was revealed by scientists not so long time ago (the beginning of the 80s of the last century), but how many millions of lives it took! According to statistics for 2021, about 5,000 people die from AIDS every day in the world! And this is at the time of tremendous progress of mankind in all sectors! And it’s scary to imagine how many infected people there are around the world. Unfortunately, progress in the treatment and cure of AIDS has yet reached the point that this disease is being treated and periods of remission are coming. And here, probably, you need to ask yourself the question about the progress: yet or already? After all, despite the fact that the disease still remains incurable, the lives of patients with today’s treatment and drugs are increasing, and the diagnosis is no longer so terrible, because you can and should live with AIDS!
The name of AIDS is associated with something terrible, which causes horror and from which you want to run away. It is this association that is one of the reasons why many patients conceal their disease, and at the same time do not receive the necessary treatment. And the thing is that there is little information about this disease in society. Society is afraid of AIDS patients as lepers, and few people know that infection with this disease is possible only through blood and through milk from mother to child, that you can safely communicate with carriers of this disease, touch them and even be in the same household environment – all this does not carry the risk of infection, AIDS is not transmitted either by airborne droplets, or through household objects, or even through insect bites. It is ignorance of all the necessary information about this disease that leads to stigmatization, when not just resentment is inflicted, but lives are broken. Often people with AIDS are simply not allowed to live in peace, others stigmatize them and discriminate against them.
December 1 is declared the International AIDS Day worldwide. This day exists in order to protect people from AIDS, and to protect the patients with AIDS from the cruelty of society.
The purpose of this day and the AIDS control program is to raise awareness of the world’s population about the disease, ways of its spread, methods of prevention and treatment options. And the red ribbon twisted with the letter “V” became his symbol.
Every year, the IZB school joins events dedicated to this day, children draw posters related to the topic of AIDS, sharing their thoughts, in the classroom they are told all the important information they need to know about this disease.
This year we decided to invite a gynecologist and an urologist to talk with the girls and the boys on the topic named “Adolescent sexual development and personal hygiene rules”. Gynecologist Dilfuza Bazarbayeva acquainted the girls with the rules of personal and intimate hygiene and answered many of their questions. No less interesting was the conversation with the boys of the urologist Kamoliddin Shamsiddinov. He spoke about the impact of bad habits, the use of electronic cigarettes, hookah and various energy drinks on the adolescents’ health. The guys had a lot of painful questions that they can’t ask their parents because of embarrassment.
But such conversations are the main step on the way to safety from AIDS and a sure way to avoid infection, so that later you do not regret your lost health and that you did not find out in time and did not take care of the safety of your and your loved ones. In addition, children should know that the infected people have the right to education, social and medical assistance, support and confidentiality under the law of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
