AIDS PANDEMICS

I am interrupting our normal schedule to talk about Aids. Today is the 1st December and as a tradition it is a day when the world takes time and observes the major milestones made in the fight against HIV/AIDS since its first discovery in early 1981. Between that period when the first victim succumbed, there has been a record of twenty five million more deaths world wide. About thirty three million people world wide are HIV infected. It is such a massive number of people to loose, the fact being that, Aids is a disease that can be avoided. Market information about HIV/Aids, how one can get infected, risks and controls have been brought out extensively and there is no one who can claim ignorance confidently as justification. And if it happens that there is some one out there who believes that the battle has not been well served, then today is the perfect day to lay claims aside and focus on finding information on Aids related issues. Ignorance and again I emphasize ignorance will never be and shall never be a reason to talk about and cite as the chief impediment to be stuck, to lag behind and lack something or be a victim of a named circumstance be it the said virus. In our earlier articles we emphasized that your life is your own responsibility and that you must play your part diligently. Aids is not an inevitable  thing. It can be averted if we choose to respect ourselves. Sex kills people and it has caused many a major land slide and reduced their lives to shame, prejudice and apathy, get it, you are not an exception if you choose to listen to your selfish antics. Get it clear that sex is only preserved for the qualified few and if you don't make it to the list, stop engaging in premarital sex whether with your rightful boyfriend or girlfriend. The young people again are at it just like last year. Risky ages of fifteen and twenty four have refused to embrace knowledge to grow but rather diverted their energies to irrelevant matters that has no direct benefit to them now. We largely pick wrong directions that are non supportive to our futures yet we are the first to complain that there is no employment. Young people, how can you talk of lack of employment when yourselves have little concern about what you do? Why don;t you take the effort you put in ail behavior and convert it into constructive time to think about your life and your career path? The world has a theme of getting to zero whether it is about new infections, Aids related deaths or discrimination. We can only substantiate and realize such an objective by creating awareness around ourselves and spreading the same message to our peers. As a young person, take responsibility and know what your life needs from you. Your life needs leadership and direction. Don't sink your own boat to short term affairs. You have thirty or fifty years ahead of you, think about them.