Today the world is celebrating the AIDS world day ; it is not a celebration but rather a day of solidarity with AIDS patients. Approximately we have about over 10,000 positive HIV patients in Egypt and only 1500 of them are registered in the ministry of health. I do not need to tell why this small number is registered in the ministry. This is of course besides those who do not know that they carry the virus and continue to live on.
On this day I would like to focus on a segment in Egypt that is threatened by AIDS and we pretend that we do not see them. The streets’ children, those children are threatened by AIDS and no one seems to care about this danger. Already nobody seems to care about them in the first place. 97% of these children thanks to drugs and unsafe sex are just closer to this virus than ever.
I do not know when we will pay attention for real to them!!??
Also the AIDS patients in Egypt suffer due to the lack of the advanced medical care they need and the look of the society towards them , it is enough how they are treated in the hospitals . The people in Egypt unfortunately believe that all the HIV patients are either be homosexuals or prostitutes, well not all of them are so and people should be educated more and more to know that how it is transmitted. It is being transmitted through heterosexual relations, drugs and blood transfusion.
Drugs and blood transfusion are the real challenge facing the Egyptian society and it is God’s mercy that HIV and HBV are not spreading like fire because of them. It is enough that by the recognition of the ministry of health HCV has spread in Egypt for decades because of poor medical measures and the use of contaminated syringes. It is enough that Queen Farida had been infected by HCV through blood transfusion in the Maadi military hospital in mid 1980s !!
Safe sex and condoms are not enough in our case , we need better medical care and a better social protection for those lost kids in the street.
- AIDS in Egypt “Wikipedia”
Dear Zeinobia,
ReplyDeletenot only the street children are the ones who have to fear Aids. Truth is in all these tourist resorts on the Red Sea sex is frequently exchanged between Egyptian males and foreign female tourists and no - many times no protection is used. Egyptians need to be better educated about Aids, STD's etc. Knowledge through education.
Thanks for highlightening the Aids issue in Egypt.