According to a recent article, “HIV
Compounds Poverty In Nepal”, Nepal’s Western region is suffering as the HIV
infection is being brought back into the country by traveling seasonal workers.
Generally speaking, the regions women are taking the brunt of this infectious
disease. As stated in the article, many men were traveling to India to seek
seasonal jobs. As a result, the men brought the HIV infection back with them
and spread it to many women. The women who became infected had to face extreme
measures and sell of their land and even livestock to get HIV treatment for
their husbands and even themselves.
Furthermore, India has 2.5 million
people living with HIV/AIDS. Also it has big cities that act as hubs for sex
workers who are recruited from Nepal’s poverty-ridden regions. In addition, it
is the destination that millions of semi-skilled and unskilled workers travel
to. Meanwhile, according to Nepal’s 2011
Census, out of a total population of 26.7 million people almost two million
people are working abroad causing hardships to households by bringing the HIV
infection. In addition, many women who become infected with the disease are
accused of being sex workers and in return are denied resources even in their
own home.
Clearly, this is a social problem.
Many families face hardships and suffer tremendously because they catch the
disease unintentionally. In addition, these men travel abroad in seek of work
to support their families but instead bring back more problems. It is unfair to
these families and individuals who are only trying to better themselves or even
just to survive to have to face catching the HIV infection because they
searched for a job. Aids causes harm and leads to death, there is no cure for
the infection. All in all, Nepal and other countries such as India, need to
work on improving their Aids prevention program. Finally, Nepal should find
some way to help workers travel less, by offering more jobs. Also, they should
implement testing centers for those who are entering and exiting the country
for work. As stated before, there is no known cure for HIV infection but there are
ways to help prevent people from catching and spreading the disease to others.
2 comments:
I do not understand why Nepal is still requiring worker to travel to areas that are infected with HIV knowing that it is a great chance that workers could be infected and bring the disease back to their families when they return home. This just does not make any sense to me. HIV is not a disease that has a cure so my questio is, why take that risk. Nepal should offer more jobs so that these people do not have to travel. I think your solutions were right on target. Those are the same things that I would like to see happen.
nice posting.. thanks for sharing..
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