RISE. ACT  AND PROTECT – THE WORLD CELEBRATES WORLD AIDS DAY

By: Ayabonga Nkalitshana

For the past 27 years the World AIDS Day has been celebrated as a way to create awareness against the pandemic and also to encourage people and government to be active participants in the fight against aids and also know the risks involved, in engaging in unprotected sex and be abler to fight it until the end. The theme for this year is: RISE, ACT AND PROTECT which emboldens people to be liable citizens to combat the spread of the virus and fight it to the end.

It is apparent with the campaigns that have been ran around the world  that the main objective by all governments and people is to have a zero percent existence of AIDS and its virus on the global scale. One of the touching things involved in the campaign for AIDS, is the contribution of the infected people to be part of the awareness campaigns, and also show that having the disease is not the end of the world, and for them to have courage and publicly admit to be infected. The also form part of an important cause to fight the disease up to its end.

Research has shown that the mostly infected and affected people in South Africa are the youth which engage in unsafe practice of intercourse and are exposed to it through the danger of being raped, because of the participation in the night life entertainment. It has also shown that the number of infected children during birth has decrease due to massive concentration on education about the virus and other effects which are part of it.