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Treat HIV infected with love'

By Mostafa Kamal Majumder
People infected with the Human Immuno-Deficlency Virus (HIV) should be treated with love and care to prevent the spread of the virus.
The virus Is transmitted only through blood and sex. say experts.
A man infected with HIV develops into a full-blown AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) patient in 10 to 15 years
People having HIV. how ever, do not suffer any difficulty before the disease is fullblown.
Experts say the virus can spread if needles of syringes are shared, or blood from a HIV infected person Is transfused into another man The virus is also transmitted
through sex
But there Is no fear of being infected even if a healthy person hugs a HIV Infected person or even kisses the latter provided the former does not have any mouth Infection, researches around the world have revealed.
Experts also say that there Is no reason to view aids pa tlenls as social outcasts, be cause one may contract the virus by just sharing a syringe or needle Irt a clinic or dispensary or while taking injectlble drugs with others.
Thus a doctor treating pa tlents without any knowledge of the existence of HIV positive persons may cause spread of the dreadful virus. x
In the United States where the Incidence of the disease Is the highest. experts have even suggested that people might get infected with HIV from dentists not using sterile surgical equipment for each patient.
If an HIV positive person is treated as a social outcast, he or she will just suppress the information, thus creating more risks of spreading the virus.
Such patients should be persuaded to bum the syringes they have to use any time they examine their blood
Such persons should be persuaded not to have sex. In some countries governments openly advocate the use of condoms to avoid the risk of getting Infected with HIV. ac cording to information received from around the world.
In Bangladesh one aids patient has so far died, and three HIV cases have been Identified. In all the Instances except one they contacted the disease from abroad.
Another HIV positive case, the first in Bangladesh was a foreigner arrested In connection with smuggling He was released last year
The aids patient who died In a rural area of Bangladesh
liner. He was deported to
Bangladesh as he was having repeated bouts of diarrhoea and was diagnosed as a fullblown aids case a couple of years ago.
The authorities concerned have found that the wife of the aids patient has also become a HIV positive case.
Two other HIV cases have come from Dubai — both of them deported following detection of the presence of the virus 1n their bodies through routine medical check-up. Both of them are 1n their twenties. The first one detected last year was not married. The second Is only recently married.
It Is gathered that after being deported from Dubai recently the second case was referred to AIDS experts who advised him to go to his village home and bring his wife to Dhaka for a check up. They also persuaded him not to have sex with his wife without safeguards and to sec to It that needles and syringes used by him were not used by others.
Hie experts said they were not sure whether the AIDS scare now being reported from Sylhet is due to the same HIV
They say it Is a pity that po lice have been sent to haul up the patient By doing so we will only encourage him to hide his Identity and cause havoc tn the society', they said
If they arc treated with love and care, they will follow the advice given by physicians, and will pose little threat to the society.
Last year the government had opened a cell for AIDS patients at the Infectious Diseases Hospital tn Dhaka
Reliable sources say that the doctors and the nurses at the hospital are against admitting AIDS patients there, because of superlstltlons and misconceptions about the disease.
The cell at the Infectious Diseases Hospital is also not a clean one said one expert. 'If a patient Is taken there, he will get the feeling that the next time he will be taken to a
A well maintained cell In hospitals with doctors ready to tackle such patients should be opened, experts add
Meanwhile. It la withered that the first AIDS patient who died recently at hla village home was treated by a village doctor who used a single sy tinge to Inject medicines Into many people Including the AIDS patient.
The concerned auihorlUcs have collected and destroyed the syringe. A survey ol the area to determine If HIV has spread to more pa^k^ls now the authorities concerned, sources say
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