EBOLA,HIV/AIDS ARE TWIN DEMONS

EBOLA,HIV/AIDS ARE TWIN DEMONS

BY ABDULMUMINI ADEKU.

 

EBOLA IS CURRENTLY RAVAGING THE WORLD

The rave of the moment, Ebola Virus Disease and another scourge, the Acquired Immune Disease Syndrome[AIDS] are both said to be as deadly as each other.

In an exclusive interview with Paedia Express Multimedia in his office recently in Lagos,Nigeria the Program Manager of not-for-profit organization, the Journalist Against AIDS ,Mr Benjamin Adeeyo told this reporter that it will be stupid for the entire world to say that because Ebola was severe ,HIV/AIDS will no longer be taken seriously.

He said that he did not in any way buy any idea that tends to suggest that HIV was not as serious as Ebola,noting that the two were actually Siamese twins in terms of lethality.

He urged the general to be very wary of there sexual health and not turn to promiscuity as a way of easing out sexual tensions as HIV was still a major public health concern that the world is grappling with.

He noted that any issue which has been labeled a public health concern has no forms of border  limitations  except if concerted efforts are made to address the issue.

He explained that what the Ebola crisis has done is that it has brought death closer to people who could be infected  by HIV/AIDS.

He assured that  Ebola Virus disease can also  be spread  sexually like HIV/AIDS since it can be found in body fluids and serum of Human beings.

According to him the world may not have to live long with the pains of Ebola Virus as there seems to be some promising drugs that will soon be unleashed on the scourge  through vaccine trials but added quickly that this was not the case for HIV/AIDS as there were only drugs that can manage the saga and not cure it now.

He however added that the breakthrough in the HIV/AIDS realm right  now was that treatment drugs were been improved upon on  a daily basis.

In his assessment before now people could take drugs for HIV treatment and it will take 3 to 4 days before they are fully activated in the human body framework unlike today when a particular drug can work out in  24 hours.

He revealed that the kind of drugs used by HIV victims today have less side effects and were less toxic as well due to the universal standards being used for its therapy.

He affirmed that it will not be out of place to say that the world was inching near a cure for HIV/AIDS despite lamenting that the stakeholders were no longer getting the kind of financial support that they desired to be able to work on the malady.

He added that even if there was a cure today,organizations like theirs will have to find new avenues in the trade in order to be relevant.

Paedia Express Multimedia understands through THE Guardian Newspapers of London and the Agency France Press in Conakry,Guinea that the United States is unhappy about the slow pace of global interest in the Ebola war

The US ambassador to the United Nations has criticised the level of international support for nations hit by Ebola as she begins a tour of west African nations at the epicentre of the deadly outbreak.

Samantha Power said before arriving in Guinea on Sunday that too many leaders were praising the efforts of countries like the US and Britain to accelerate aid to the worst-affected nations, while doing little themselves.

“The international response to Ebola needs to be taken to a wholly different scale than it is right now,” Power told NBC News.

She said many countries were “signing on to resolutions and praising the good work that the United States and the United Kingdom and others are doing, but they themselves haven’t taken the responsibility yet to send docs, to send beds, to send the reasonable amount of money”.

Besides Guinea, Power will travel to Sierra Leone and Liberia – the three nations that account for the vast majority of the 4,922 deaths from the Ebola epidemic.

More than 10,000 people have contracted the virus in west Africa, according to the latest World Health Organisation figures.

Another country in the region, Mali, is scrambling to prevent a wider outbreak after a two-year-old girl died from her Ebola infection following a 600-mile bus ride from Guinea. She was Mali’s first recorded case of the disease.

An adviser to the Malian health ministry said the 43 people placed under medical observation in Kayes in western Mali – where the girl died on Friday – showed no signs of the illness.

About a dozen other people were also being observed in the capital, Bamako, where the girl had spent about three hours visiting relatives on the way to Kayes.

Mauritania meanwhile reinforced controls on its border with Mali, which effectively closed the frontier, according to local sources.