A person in your colony has recently been diagnosed with AIDS. People/residents in the colony want him to leave the colony for the fear of spread of AIDS.
a) Write your view on the situation, giving reasons.
b) List the possible preventive measures that you would suggest to the residents of your locality in a meeting organised by you so that they understand the situation.
c) Write the symptoms and the causative agents of AIDS.

Explanation

a) Recently by chance, AIDS is diagonosed in our area. It is fatal disease. We should create awareness among the people to combat such situation and not to isolate the AIDS infected person from the society.
b) It is important that HIV/AIDS is not spread by more touch or physical contact, it spreads only through body fluids.
It is, hence, imperative, for the physical and psychological well being, that the HIV/AIDS infected persons are not isolated from family and society.
c) AIDS is caused by the Human Immuno deficiency Virus (HIV), a member of a group of viruses called retrovirus.
Transmission of HIV-infection generally occurs due to:
a) Sexual contact with an infected person.
b) by transfusion of contaminated blood and blood products.
c) by sharing infected needles as in the case of intravenous drug abusers.
d) from infected mother to her child through Placenta.
Symptoms of AIDS: HIV-AIDS is characterized by a decrease in T-helper (T-H) lymphocytes. The patient suffers bouts of fever, diarrhea and weight loss. Due to decrease in the number of T-helper lymphocytes, the person starts suffering from opportunistic infections like, mycobacterial infections, toxoplasmosis, fungi and virsues.