Saturday, 20 July 2013

What Is AIDS? What Is HIV?

I want to congratulate this site information for a good and useful work done. 

I am a Ghanaian Nurse. ActuaCly my research area was on Prevention of Mother to child Transmission of HIV. I have also had the opportunity of working for an NGO-Projects Abroad Ghana, educating schools and orphanages on HIV/AIDS. 

Locally, there is this practice ('Bantua') similar to enema in the hospital, where a whole family and sometimes, some public toilets keep or share the same 
'Bantua'. The 'Bantua' is filled with locall preperations belived to be able to wash out certain unfriendly abdominal contents through defaecation. The route of access is the anus. This tube-like 'Bantua' is pushed through the anus without any kind of lubrication, thus dispossing a person to anal injuries or bleeding. Although the practice is believed to be helpful, it is scaring when it has to be shared by both somewhat healthy and clinically sick people altogther unknowingly.Because blood, most of the times, is seen on the tube upon withdrawal, people who share the 'Bantua' may contract HIV OR AIDS without knowing the source. I believe this practice is done somewhere in the world. Reducing and or preventing HIV/AIDS infection is a global concern and therefore require global efforts. I believe you will find this piece of information useful and helpful. 

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