HIV scenario in Orissa
It's time to wear red ribbon
When her husband died in the past month, Jayanti (name changed) came to know that he suffering from AIDS. Tests have shown that 30-year-old Jayanti and her three month old son, along with two other young children were also HIV positive. The news spread through the village. Her family was ostracized by society, even doctors refused only to visit her because she was HIV positive. Ostracism, humiliation and abuse at the hands of the family, the community and the medical profession are increasing in Orissa. The lack of adequate medical care, treatment facilities and socio-economic support for families and the community has driven many patients to despair and suicide.
After the UNAIDS report, 285 people have died of AIDS during the 2000-2005 period, but activists say it is very difficult to get an exact number of AIDS-related deaths because AIDS rarely as cause of death given - unofficial estimates point to a figure of 300 people. From 21, 623 blood samples, referred to 2306 cases of HIV-positive and 467 cases were AIDS virus need to. Among these cases, 68 percent of men and 32 percent women. If we as age group, the age group account (25-39) years, a maximum number of cases. Ganjam district is alarming experienced increase in AIDS cases and is probably the dubious distinction who earn the highest number of HIV cases among all districts in Orissa in the coming years. According to this report. AIDS had claimed, while the HIV-positive cases increased 151 already living in the district between 2000 and 2005 to 960 during the same period. A report shows that 11,357 people who attended the voluntary and confidential counseling and testing centers in medical clinics in Berhampur in this period. Most HIV cases have been reported from blocks Polo Sara, Hinjili Digapahandi and Belguntha.
migration, low literacy, poverty, urbanization, injectable drug users, unsafe sex and ignorance about the transmission of the disease are important factors for the spread of the deadly Disease. Migration is the main culprit for the rising number of HIV cases. Unofficial sources say that the 10,00,000 Oriya migrant workers in different parts of the country. The situation worsened due to the colossal by the super cyclone in 1999 followed caused damage and the subsequent severe drought of 2000 by an unprecedented floods. One of the main objectives of the migration is Surat. From 1975 began in migration towards Surat. The migrants work in the textile industry and some also work in diamond polishing industry. From every corner of the state, people migrate to Surat. Ganjam district is first in the series. There are more than 600,000 Oriya migrant workers in Surat from Ganjam district work alone 900,000 workers from the state. At least 30 percent of them are seasonal migrants and the others live in the slums of Surat around the year, under conditions of high risk unprotected sex, which can lead to HIV transmission. The medical community of Orissa confirms the alarming rise of AIDS among migrant workers. Brothels thrive as much as jobs, and this is one reason why Surat is a sitting duck for an AIDS bomb. Surat is the only city in Gujarat with an organized "red-light" area. Large-scale dissemination of premarital promiscuity, multiple sexual partnership with commercial sex workers and high homosexuality are part of this work. The commercial sex workers are the AIDS carriers in Surat. The threat of AIDS is more terrible than to be understood that usually, as migrant workers return to their homes, the risk over several hundred kilometers to take their families.
Age Group Male Female
0-147563
15-24102172
25-39 1079 441
40 31 046
If you study the above graph, the maximum number of HIV + ve cases in the (25-39) years age group found and this group is known as the main workforce of a family or community. They are also the profitability of their family. Because less opportunity they migrate to different parts of the country in search of work or HIV virus carries back. It is the parent carriers of the virus and his wife to be the first victim. And the trend is that. The next goal will be the newborn. Younger children with the age group (0-14) years are innocent and unaware of the dreaded disease. The disease is blessed by their parents. you can find in each age group that the infected male figure is more than the female counterpart. But in the age group (15-19) years, you can find a peculiar change. Here the number of women is HIV + with five 172 as opposed to the 102 men. The reason is more women in this age group are married, and the virus is memorable gift from her husband. In the age group over 40 years, 310 men and 46 women infected with HIV positive virus. Now the time has come to think on these rising numbers of HIV-positive cases. The disease really created a scare in every village of Orissa. If anyone of fever or cold suffer, then the villagers began to draw a map of where he worked, his work career by. Every time to fulfill in his struggle for the daily basic needs, so it can migrate to other countries and other parts of the state. If the patient has gone everywhere from his village, then without second thoughts they diagnose the case as AIDS. Then count the starts down in front of a concrete report from the medical official, the villagers kill him by imposing unnecessary restrictions. The main problem is not loving or hating the people who are affected by the dreaded disease, but to prevent the virus before it added even more victims to his group.
to in the country, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to prevent HIV / AIDS in order, set a national AIDS committee in 1986 chaired by the Union Ministry of Health and family with representatives from different sectors. The committee was formed with the aim to bring together various ministries, non-governmental organizations and private institutions for effective coordination in implementing the program. To strengthen program management, the state government has its own management organizations include Orissa State AIDS Control Society technical advisory committee and high-level body in accordance with the guidelines of the Strategic Plan.
Orissa has conducted State AIDS Control Society (OSACS) targeted intervention programs in the state for the most vulnerable groups. Targeted Intervention projects are currently being run by NGOs in several districts for commercial sex workers, truck drivers, migrant workers, fisher-folk community, prison inmates and slum women workers. But lack of awareness among sexually active young people, the disease in terms of the main obstacle to its spread. Reports have illiteracy and ignorance is often attributed to the spurt in AIDS cases.