World AIDS Day 2008

It was just a regular college day, the only difference was i was attending the First Lecture,that was of Dipen Chapagain(D.C) sir. I was in no mood of taking that lecture too, but i had the call from the Dipen daju himself asking me about the Class,since me being the so called Class Representative(C.R) :-P. So i hastily rushed to the Classroom.The "Operating System" class was pretty exciting, learning about Interrupts,Entry to Critical Region , Processes. Also a warm welcome by D.C Sir for my 2nd class, out 7. ;-).

Out of many absentee, Ruchin Sing was one. But after the class was over, i could see him with a box full of The Red Ribbon,which is the global symbol for solidarity with HIV-positive people and those living with AIDS. He was just busy distributing the Ribbon to others, he even put the one on the D.C Sir's Sweater, and i was reminded it's December 1,the World AIDS day.He had told me about his idea of distributing the Red Ribbon before a week. He wanted to celebrate the World AIDS day in our Pulchwok Campus too and he did it. Bravo Mate. The slogan was , remember your ABC's, where " A " stands for, abstinence, " B " for "Be Faithful " and "C" for " Condom ". We had this slogan in our MSN Live Messenger Display name and Facebook status for 4 days before today and will be keeping it for few more days. Ruchin Singh the hero, the activists.
There's lot of controversies on the hypothesis of the Origin of AIDS, no single hypothesis has been unanimously accepted,but out of them Cameroon Chimpanzee Hypothesis is one of the most convincing. It is assumed that the HIV-1 most likely originated in wild chimpanzee in the southeastern rain forests of Cameroon. This might have transferred to the Human Race during late 19th or early 20th century.Primatologist Jim Moore suggests that colonial practices may have created conditions conducive to the spread of the virus. The hardships of forced labor could have suppressed the immune system of the initial hunter, allowing the virus to infect and take hold in a new host.The colonization of Africa brought close contact of many people of different parts of world together and thus the spreading of Virus world wide. Whatever may be the reason,fighting with it has been really baffling and even billions of dollar injection, for the research and development of its cure, hasn't been quite fruitful yet.

In 2007, an estimated 33.2 million people lived with the disease worldwide, and it killed an estimated 2.1 million people, including 330,000 children. The figure itself shows the lethality and abundance of the virus. Also, the reason to celebrate World AIDS day and spread the knowledge and awareness about AIDS. If we can create an aware and educated society, state , country and world about AIDS,then we can cease the spreading of the Virus to other new host, thus saving beautiful life.

If everything goes right,we decided about organizing a "Awareness Talk Program" on the Library hall of our Campus, on coming Friday, to support the campaign of fighting AIDS and put some effort on raising awareness.




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Causes of AIDS:
SEXUAL TRANSMISSION(Sexual Contact with Infected Person)
EXPOSURE TO BLOOD BORNE PATHOGENS (Blood Transmission and Sharing of Syringe of Infected Person)
PERINATAL TRANSMISSION ( From infected Mother to the Child)

MISCONCEPTION:
There has been many misconception regarding the AIDS. Some of them are,AIDS can spread through casual contact,kissing,sharing beds or utensils, the sexual intercourse with a virgin will cure AIDS, and that HIV can infect only homosexual men and drug users.

To prevent yourself, Remember you ABC's.
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The latter day was not so good, as the Computer Basket ball team lost to Electronics on the ongoing Inter Department Basketball tournament organised by ANNFSU,Primary committee,Pulchwok Campus.

Anywayyyy, this was the essence of World AIDS Day,2008, for me.

Take the Lead. Fight AIDS. Keep the promise.Let's do it.