Combating HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and other diseases

HIV is a virus which destroys human immune system. In the early phases of disease, the individual has no indications. Be that as it may, as the disease advances, the invulnerable framework gets to be weaker. HIV is transmitted through unprotected sex, transfusion of not contaminated blood, sharing of needles and between a mother and her new born child amid pregnancy and labor. A large portion of the Africans are victims of HIV.

Malaria is brought on by a parasite called Plasm-odium, which is transmitted through the bites of contaminated mosquitoes. In our body, the parasites reproduce in the liver, and afterward contaminate our body cells. If not treated, fever can rapidly get to be life-undermining by disturbing the blood supply to organs. Dengue Virus resulted in numerous deaths in Pakistan.

Malaria and HIV and different sicknesses result in more than two million deaths per year.
In territories with malaria transmission, HIV expands the danger of malaria and fever in grown-ups.

HIV effected pregnant ladies who get to be malaria victims are at expanded danger of all the unfavorable results of malaria in their pregnancy.

• Almost 600 youngsters passed on each day of AIDS-related causes in 2012.


• Malaria intercessions spared the lives of three million adolescent kids somewhere around 2000 and 2012.

Mrs Shehnaaz from Islamabad is victim of AIDS who lives with 6 kids under her care: 3 young girls and 3 young boys around 1 and 13 years. She lost her spouse to the illness and is required to address her own particular needs and additionally those of the children she resides with. Individuals like Shehnaaz inspired Labor solidarity association to begin a system of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Mitigation. The association through this system has backed defenseless family units through their effective seminars.

Prevention of mother and Child transmission of HIV: A Pregnant HIV lady takes medicines in pregnancy and labor to combat the danger of passing HIV to their infants. Their new conceived infants additionally get HIV medication for 6 weeks after conception. The HIV medication diminishes the danger of disease from HIV that may have entered a child's body during labor.

•Needle Exchange: Always utilize new, unused needles or by flushing the needle and plunger with water each one time you utilize a medication syringe.

•Getting Tested: The best way to make sure of your HIV status is to get tested. With oral test, you can even get a cheek swab and get your results in 20 minutes.

•Get Lotions and Safety Nets: To battle Malaria it is imperative to utilize nets and creams which don't permit mosquitoes to draw close to you and don't let any water stand adjacent your spots especially after Rain.

To conclude it’s on us to take best care of ourselves and avoid everything which is prone to these diseases as if we do self-safety and get careful with every step these diseases can never come near us.

By Mishaal Shahzad
Islamabad
Pakistan

Issues faced by Young Girls and Women Empowerment

Gender Inequality basically refers to unequal treatment based on sexual orientation. It emerges from differences in socially developed gender roles and additionally organically through hormonal differences. Gender frameworks are regularly hierarchical; gender twofold frameworks may reflect the disparities that show in various measurements of everyday life. Gender Inequality disparity comes from discrepancy, whether experimentally grounded or socially built.

In every aspect of society, gender inequality balance has turned into the norm. All around acknowledged standards of human rights have set the standard for correspondence between women and men. This concept reaches out to the distinguishment that young girls and women are remarkable individuals with rights and duties like those of young men and boys.

Have you ever pondered the lives of young ladies of your age in poorer nations as far and wide as possible? From numerous points of view they are the same: these young girls enjoy in family, attempt to discover time for hanging out with friends, and consider what's on the horizon. Anyway in a few ways the issues and difficulties confronting them are altogether different.

Twenty-five percent of adolescent young ladies in "developing" or low-salary nations live in extreme poverty. It implies that individuals don't have all the basic needs for survival, in the same way as food, water, lodging, home, clothing, education, and health care. 

In numerous nations, young girls are esteemed far short of young men; they don't have the opportunity to go to class, to long for a future career, or have fun time. Envision what your life would be similar to if your parents thought it didn't make sense for young ladies to go to class, get medical consideration, or even get as much foodstuff as young men.

Education: In numerous countries, when young ladies are near to their puberty, their guardians demoralize them from proceeding in school or even pressurize them to drop out, to protect their reputation and marriage prospects. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, just 17 percent of young girls are enlisted in secondary (high) school.

Training = Power: Every year of educating builds a young lady's earning power by 10 to 20 percent, while the return on their secondary education is significantly higher. Additionally, improved education for young girls is interfaced to lower HIV disease rates, lessened baby mortality, and an increment in a country's general for every capita pay.

Work Opportunities: Young women have a harder time finding work than young men and by and large are considered as just for a restricted range of "suitable" occupations like sewing, housekeeping (household), or factory work. These occupations pay less of what the young men's occupations. Young girls are frequently abused by their managers in light of the fact that they have constrained power, security, protection and rights.

Early Marriage: Young Motherhood, Unwanted Pregnancy, and Disease: One in seven young ladies in creating nations get married before age 15, and almost half are married by age 20; regularly, the young ladies are not given a decision in the matter. Married, young ladies go from fathers and siblings to their spouses. Not just do one-third of ladies in creating nations conceive an offspring before age 20, they are much more prone to pass on from pregnancy-related complications than ladies in age of 20.

Their children are likewise at higher danger of illness and death. Substantial extents of these pregnancies are unwanted, since a large portion of these young women need access to legitimate health awareness and birth control. Every year, somewhere around 2 and 4 million girls resort to risky, off and on again fatal, abortion techniques. 

Young Girls and women in late-modern social orders are depicted as those most subordinated to the consumer society. In previous socialist nations, prostitution has offered restricted to acquire the moneynecessary to take part in new consumer ways of life. All through history, young people have been examined as to their demeanour, conduct, sexuality and general behaviour. Moral Panics are frequently structured in West Society .Ex: Teenage Pregnancy and Crime rate expanded due to growing youthful mother population. In Central and South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, one in five births is to a female under age 20. The conception rates for youngsters in this age gathering are additionally high in Latin America and the Caribbean and in East Europe compared and rest of Europe as appeared.

The lifestyles and practices of young ladies and women have changed. Smoking and under-age drinking have ended up more normal and become a norm, and drug use has expanded. A British study -In 1995 demonstrated that one in five females between the ages of 14 and 25 utilized cannabis at any rate once a week, and 22 percent of the 15-to 16-year-old young ladies surveyed had attempted it;11 numerous young ladies apparently related drinking and drug use with sociability and development.

Consistently, more than 14 million young ladies wed before their eighteenth birthday. Early marriage is most common in rural and impoverished territories of sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia; however the practice is in no way, shape or form restricted to these regions.

Poverty frequently triggers this practice. Families may trust that an early marriage will secure a young girl's future and honour. Again and again, however, these unions bring about disempowerment, misuse, and early pregnancy – all of which can prompt genuine wellbeing outcomes.

The information is compelling: almost 30% of young ladies matured 15–19 in a marriage or dating relationship have encountered physical and/or sexual violence on account of their intimate partners. Complications joined to pregnancy and labour is the second leading reason for death among these girls.

Early marriage damages a young lady's rights. It adequately closes her Education and her capability to win her living further down in future, helping society's economic and social advancement. It can likewise put her life in danger.


Conclusion 
Girls are needed to be encouraged and backed by other ladies. Occasions bringing ladies and girls together, workshops building self-assurance and respect toward oneself.Displaying persuasive yet aspiring good examples to young ladies who they can look toward and learn from. Raising aspirations of young people and helping them recognise their so they can accomplish positive things in life. We must guarantee equivalent access to education and livelihood opportunities for ladies and young girls. We must challenge social standards that help male power and control over ladies and young girls. We must empower adolescent young ladies with confidence, faith and awareness of various life options. We must work with juvenile young men and young ladies to create equal connections relationship in shared appreciation. We must train parents and schools to teach kids through non-violent practices.

BY
MISHAAL SHAHZAD

Women: Pride or Prejudice

Pride, the word describes the superiority, and we are habituated to put this adjective to men only. But have we thought, if this word would be addressed to women, then what turmoil might  happen? Surely, lots of male were dissatisfied and vehemently criticized the process as insane and still put the women at the bottom of the society as a prejudicial view. This politics of the word not only shows the aggressiveness towards, women but also reflect the male chauvinism.

Taking the reference from the female scholars, Simon De Bevoir, in Second Sex critically examines the contrast between men and women as:

I am sometimes vexed during abstract discussions to hear men say to me, “You think thus and such because you are a woman.” But I know that my only defense would be to respond, “I think it because it is true,” thereby eliminating my subjectivity. It would be out of the question to reply, “And you think the contrary because you are a man”; for it is understood that the fact of being a man is not a singularity. A man is in the right in being man: its woman who is in the wrong. (LDS 1:14, TM; TSS xxi)

         This opinion clarifies the gap between men and women which are right and wrong in the parameter of societal view respectively. This kind of view was germinated when the society was upbringing from it’s nascent to developed stage. But the recent trend in development by the donors through NGOs/INGOs has emerged as a panacea to uplift the status into developed form.

Taking the reference of SAARC countries, we can take glimpse of the female body the main role in government and other countries.

 Especially in Nepal, we can see the bigger picture of women in a positive way. Nepal has gone through the civil war for years and as a result from that, it has established as a republic nation and freedom of expression was a catchphrase for women. From this example, we can see that it takes time to dismantle the traditional view to come in a positive form.

As we are in the 21^st century we should take a leading role to educate the family, society and ultimately to the whole nation that we are equal human beings and there shouldn’t be any distinction between the sexes. Youth can be the catalyst to change this mentality and advocate the community by being a voluntary goodwill ambassador. Girls and boys should join the hand and lead the small project like empowering society in the issues of sex, gender and teach the positive view. Apart from the individual initiation, government should take a lead role to come up with the clear strategical view which benefits the gender concept.

If we want to really see the world as a gender balance, first and foremost we have to deconstruct the word prejudice and honor the women with the word pride. Real change comes when we join the hand and go together for the genuine cause.

By Suraj Sharma

Reference:

Beauvoir, Simon de. “The Second Sex.” Critical Theory since Plato. Ed.Hazard Adams. New York: Harcourt, 1992. 993-1000.