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AIDS Awareness among Graduate Students of
Arts and Science Streams- A Comparative Study
Deepak kumar*
Meenakshi **
ABSTRACT
HIV stands for human immune deficiency virus that causes AIDS (Acquired immune
deficiency syndrome). It can be transmitted through contaminated blood and from infected
mother to child. There is no cure for it. It primarily attacks men and women in their
economically productive years when they provide the major labour force. India is estimated to
have the second largest population of population with HIV/AIDS next to South Africa. AIDS
epidemic in India in heterogeneous; at risk groups are women, youth and then others, where
the epidemic shifts from the most vulnerable group such as sex workers, injecting drug users
and men who have sex with men to bridge population that includes partners of clients of sex
workers, people with sexually transmitted infection and drug users and then to general
population. In areas that are mare severally affected, the epidemic has started to challenge
recent development achievement and to raise fundamental issues of human rights concerning
people living with AIDS. Repercussions of the disease have forced us to join hands against it,
which is handicapping the society and physical process of the direct victims and the related
ones. In the present study an attempt has been made to see the AIDS Awareness among
graduate students of Arts and Science streams. Simple random sampling used for the selection
of sample. Hundered graduating students of Jhajjar district selected for the study.Results
showed that the students of both types of the streams i.e. art and science stream are not equally
aware about AIDS Awareness. All this implies that students of art and science stream needs
more awareness towards AIDS.
Keywords- AIDS (Acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
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INTRODUCTION
HIV stands for Human Immune Deficiency Virus that causes AIDS (Acquired immune
Deficiency Syndrome). It can be transmitted through contaminated blood and from infected
mother to child.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic in India in heterogeneous; at risk groups are women, youth and the
others, where the epidemic shifts from the most vulnerable group such as sex workers,
injecting drug users and men who have sex with men to bridge population that includes
partners of clients of sex workers, People with sexually transmitted infection and drug users
and to general population. In areas that are more severely affected, the epidemic has started to
challenge recent development achievement and to raise fundamental issues of human rights
concerning people living with HIV/AIDS.
What is HIV?
HIV stands for human immune deficiency virus. It is virus that causes AIDS. A member of a
group of the viruses called retro viruses, HIV infects human cells and uses the energy and
nutrients provides by those cells to grow and reproduce.
What is AIDS?
AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
ACQUIRED- to get/ develop after birth not inherited through genes.
IMMUNE- reduction of body’s resistance ability to fight infection.
DEFICIENCY- Shortage, reduction.
SYNDROME- a group of sign and symptoms and not just a disease.
Which is not a part of a germ or a single known cause? It is a disease in which the body’s
immune system breaks down and is unable to fight off infections, known as “opportunistic
infections” and other illnesses that take advantages of a weakened immune system.
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When a person is infected with HIV, the virus enters the body and lives and multiples
primarily in the white blood cells. These are immune cells that normally protect us from
disease. The hallmark of HIV infection is the progressive loss of a specific type of immune
cells called T-helper, or CD4, cells. As the virus grows, It damages or kills these and other
cells, weakening the immune system and leaving the person vulnerable to various
opportunistic infections and other illnesses ranging from pneumonia to cancer. A person can
receive a clinical diagnosis of AIDS, as defined by the U.S .Centers for Disease control and
prevention (CDC), if he or she has tested positive for HIV and meets one or birth of these
condition:
The presence of one or more AIDS- related infections or illnesses.
A CD4 count has reached or fallen below 200 cells per cubic millimeter of blood. Also called
the T-cell count, the CD4 counts ranges from 450 to 1200 in healthy individual.
COMMUNICATION ROUTES OF HIV/AIDS
Communication via sexual exposure
The AIDS virus is primarily transmitted through sexual contact. There are two key
scientific factors which allow us to understand its spread: the likelihood that an infected
person will transmit the virus to a partner during sexual intercourse; and the frequency with
which individuals acquire new sexual partners. HIV is carried in sexual and virginal fluids
and in cervical secretions as well as in blood. Any exchange of fluids during intercourse can
results in transmission of the virus across the porous membranes of vagina ,penis, mouth or
anal canal in to the blood streams. The fact that seminal fluid transmits the virus is confirmed
by studies of artificial insemination. Women have even been infected by a single exposure to
infected semen during artificial insemination. It may be noted that there are several confirmed
cases of HIV transmission through artificial insemination with semen of men not known to be
infected. Therefore it has become necessary for screening sperm donors for HIV. The “Co- factors” such as sexually transmitted disease (STDs) which increase both vulnerability in
acquiring the virus and the likelihood that an infected persons will transmit the virus.
Communication via blood
