I was watching a public awareness ad on TV regarding AIDS. A boy wanted to get some action with a girl and the whole theme about the ad was surrounded around saying no to sex. The girl was saying I am young but not stupid, you should have the guts to say no. Even if that was not an exact description about the ad it is more or less what they were trying to say. Even though they were trying to do a good thing, I believe the way AIDS awareness is being handled is wrong /inaccurate(in India).
Go and ask a 10th standard student about how AIDS spread. The answer that 90% of the students will give will be either it spreads to sexual contact or it spreads if you have multiple sexual partners. Even though this answer seems right its only half the truth. In fact its incorrect. AIDS does not spread if you have sexual contact nor will it spread if you have multiple sexual partners. It will only spread from one infected person to another through various ways including sexual contact. I do not know how other countries and going about informing people about AIDS, but in India, as we have a conservative culture I think people are trying to use the fear of AIDS as a way through which they can prevent premarital sex.
Having premarital sex may or may not be right, but to give false information and have things done your way is not right. I asked a few of my classes mates how AIDS spread. Quite a few of them actually thought if one had sex with many partners they will get AIDS. They were under the impression that you were supposed to have sex with just one partner. If engineering college students think like that god knows what the rest think.
Even in schools, in exams when they are asked the question how AIDS spread; the students write "through sexual contact" and get full credit for it. Luckily I had a good science teacher who corrected us when we wrote the same response for the question.
Most of the AIDS campaigns surrounds around not having multiple partners or not having premarital sex. I believe in doing so the public is getting misguided. You won’t get AIDS if you have premarital sex nor will you get AIDS if you have sex with multiple partners. You won’t get AIDS if you have sex without condoms with a person who does not have AIDS. AIDS is a dangerous disease, but people must get their facts right. Because of such misguided campaigns people are afraid to have premarital sex and have other false information about AIDS.
More importance should be given to the actual ways in which AIDS can spread. The fact that it can only spread from one infected person to another should be stressed upon more. Use of condoms is a good thing, but even if you do not use it when you are with a person without the virus you won’t get the disease. As getting AIDS through sexual contact is under our control, more importance should be given to it.Students in schools should be informed properly. All the ways through which they can get AIDS and ways through which they cannot get should be explicitly stated to them and not left to their interpretation of various sentences.
Getting AIDS through infected needles are being reduced by the way the syringes are being made. Getting it through blood transfusion is not exactly in ones control. Hence I believe that the Ads (prevention of AIDS) are made with a good intention but unfortunately they sometimes tend to mislead the public. If the school teachers are trained to properly inform the students I believe a lot of misnomers will be gone. The only way that people will get accurate information about the disease is that they get it in the grass root level.
PS: Just to clear the air, I do not have a girl friend nor am i writing this because some girl refused to have sex with me. Thought that people are getting their facts wrong :P
Go and ask a 10th standard student about how AIDS spread. The answer that 90% of the students will give will be either it spreads to sexual contact or it spreads if you have multiple sexual partners. Even though this answer seems right its only half the truth. In fact its incorrect. AIDS does not spread if you have sexual contact nor will it spread if you have multiple sexual partners. It will only spread from one infected person to another through various ways including sexual contact. I do not know how other countries and going about informing people about AIDS, but in India, as we have a conservative culture I think people are trying to use the fear of AIDS as a way through which they can prevent premarital sex.
Having premarital sex may or may not be right, but to give false information and have things done your way is not right. I asked a few of my classes mates how AIDS spread. Quite a few of them actually thought if one had sex with many partners they will get AIDS. They were under the impression that you were supposed to have sex with just one partner. If engineering college students think like that god knows what the rest think.
Even in schools, in exams when they are asked the question how AIDS spread; the students write "through sexual contact" and get full credit for it. Luckily I had a good science teacher who corrected us when we wrote the same response for the question.
Most of the AIDS campaigns surrounds around not having multiple partners or not having premarital sex. I believe in doing so the public is getting misguided. You won’t get AIDS if you have premarital sex nor will you get AIDS if you have sex with multiple partners. You won’t get AIDS if you have sex without condoms with a person who does not have AIDS. AIDS is a dangerous disease, but people must get their facts right. Because of such misguided campaigns people are afraid to have premarital sex and have other false information about AIDS.
More importance should be given to the actual ways in which AIDS can spread. The fact that it can only spread from one infected person to another should be stressed upon more. Use of condoms is a good thing, but even if you do not use it when you are with a person without the virus you won’t get the disease. As getting AIDS through sexual contact is under our control, more importance should be given to it.Students in schools should be informed properly. All the ways through which they can get AIDS and ways through which they cannot get should be explicitly stated to them and not left to their interpretation of various sentences.
Getting AIDS through infected needles are being reduced by the way the syringes are being made. Getting it through blood transfusion is not exactly in ones control. Hence I believe that the Ads (prevention of AIDS) are made with a good intention but unfortunately they sometimes tend to mislead the public. If the school teachers are trained to properly inform the students I believe a lot of misnomers will be gone. The only way that people will get accurate information about the disease is that they get it in the grass root level.
PS: Just to clear the air, I do not have a girl friend nor am i writing this because some girl refused to have sex with me. Thought that people are getting their facts wrong :P
2 comments:
yeah...if u asked the question to me i would also have replied to u in the same way others did .
The virus may spread through sexual contact with an infected person but as it is not always practically possible to verify that the partner is not infected. So everyone spread the message of playing safe by using condoms or having a single faithful partner(who might not have laid with another infected person).
I guess its quite obvious that everyone knows its sexual contact with an infected person that spreads the disease evethough they just say sexual contact.
@mammen ....every 1 not as smart as u:P
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