Africa needs to face AIDS bravely - on the occasion of the 20th World AIDS Day

in the world's fight against AIDS, people in many parts of Africa still live in ignorance and fear of AIDS, talk about "Ai" color change, but also refused to accept testingAccording to the latest United Nations report, there are currently about2
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500 people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of people infected with AIDS worldwideAIDS has replaced war and become the continent's number one killerIn some African countries, AIDS prevention and control work shows a high infection rate of, low detection rate ofand low attendance rate three characteristicsIn Zambia, for example, the hiv infection rate in Zambia is about 16 per cent, with an average of one in six people living with HIV, according to data released by the National AIDS Commission of ZambiaAnd the country's total population, only 13% of the voluntary AIDS testing, many people do not want to accept this free testing programThey believe that once they learn of AIDS, life loses hopeA middle-aged woman who was seriously unwell refused to be tested for AIDS at the ManassokoHospital
in LusakaShe told the health care workers, widowed for many years, once detected suffering from AIDS, I do not know how to face friends and family, but also do not know whether they can withstand criticism and white eyesIn the 1990s, the university's teaching hospital doctors said that in the 1990s, the hospital had secretly tested patients' blood samples without informing them, and as a result, many people were told they had AIDS, but were prepared to give up treatment because they had no psychological , and some had even committed suicide because they could not accept the reality In response to the above situation, some African countries have carried out "door-to-door detection" , "mobile search" and other humane detection methods Since 2
006, some 30,000 people in Zambia have been tested for AIDS in this way In in countries such as Uganda,
Kenya and Zimbabwe, the spread of AIDS has slowed the of awareness-raising and education efforts, , coupled with the widespread use of condoms and the promotion of new treatments In Uganda
, the rate of HIV infection, once as high as 30 per cent, has fallen to the current level of 6.5 per cent in "It's just of the millions of disease
s in the world, and is not different from other diseases , " said a Zambian military doctor who has been working on aids psychological counselling and treatment for many years In this way, we can face up to AIDS, the fight against AIDS "He wants people to break through social taboos and face AIDS In preparation for World AIDS Day
, , 1, 22, and from November 22, 1 million glass bottles containing letters from former South African President Nelson Mandela have been placed across South Africa, calling for action to combat AIDS Mandela wrote in his letter that AIDS has become not only a disease, but also a human rights issue He called on people to lend a helping hand and work together to fight AIDS through donations Socialites from some African countries have gathered in Zambia to issue a declaration against AIDS throughout Africa: "We have broken the shackles of slavery, we have overthrew colonial rule, we have defeated apartheid, and now we have the courage and strength to face the challenge of AIDS." "