Friends,
Is it important to make people realize all the time that where they are wrong and what wrong they are doing? In fact what hapens when you get them realize about their mistakes they start getting corner from you. This is because person usually avoid doing this.
what you feel???

HIV/AIDS: A Threat to Sustainable Development in the Developing Countries
Farhad Ali

In every time in the history of mankind, there came a problem that threatened the life, the existence of human beings. It challenged the world community; it confronted with them, it said fight me if you can. It slowly spread with deep roots across the globe regardless of cast, creeds; it crossed all the boarders and reached all the continents.
Suddenly, it made its home in the blood of Homo sapiens. HIV (Human Immune Deficiency Virus) causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is now prevalent and appearing as more a social problem rather than a clinical problem in the world as a whole. Currently, there are around 42 million people living with the deadly virus across the globe. Out of these people, 38.6 million are adults. Around 5 million people are reported to be newly infected in the year 2002, out of this figure 4.2 million are adults and 2 million are woman. In the year 2002, 3.1 million AIDS deaths have been reported in the world.
HIV/AIDS is believed to be a threat to the sustainable development worldwide. Sustainable development means development with sustainability of all natural and artificial resources exploited for the cause of development. The basic consideration of conservation of these resources for the generations to come is kept in the mind while framing the policies. The future generations could harvest at least as much as the present generations are harvesting. The human resource is thought to be the most important resource because it is the only resource that harvest rests all the resources, which is at greater risk in present scenario of HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The population worldwide is increasing and the resources are shrinking, it is doubtful to state the present process of development as a sustainable development.
There are several indigenous technologies of specific regions across the globe. These indigenous technologies are confined to the places of origin and there is no documentation of these technologies. Since these are known to the local people only and are transferred from one generation to another generations, the spread of HIV/AIDS in these communities will be a cause of extinction of these technologies. It is reported that HIV is spreading from urban areas to rural areas and also within the specified location because of its nature of transmission. The prevalence of STIs in specific areas makes people more vulnerable to HIV infection.
It is also reported that the age of first intercourse has comedown, which is again a dangerous sign in the absence of knowledge of safer sex. The sexually active group that is 15-49 years, which is considered to be productive age group for any community or country. The people of this age group are more sexually active and thus more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Once a person gets infection, he /she needs special attention to pay to his or her health as HIV drains out his or her immunity to fight the disease and become prone to many infections which are so common in nature. In such condition he or she would not be able to work properly and take the burden of the work. Small ailments will become the regular visitors of his or her body. The person’s absence will rise at his work place and if one is a technical person at the work place, the work will definitely suffer and the productivity would come down which is the key of survival of any industry in the present scenario of WTO. In case of prevalence of infection of infection in labors force, the production is again at risk since the replacement of the labor would not be the solution as how many of the labors can be replaced. The situation is going to be worse in the developing country where mechanization is still to go a long way. The labor-intensive technologies are prevalent in most of the developing and underdeveloped countries of South East Asia. In these countries the production system would be worst affected. The countries like China and India, where rice is the staple food crop and grown in the major portion of the cultivated agricultural land, may face a acute shortage of labor since rice is a transplanted crop and requires hand roping. The transplanting is done by migrant labor force who remain outside their home place and the studies reveal that such labor forces are sexually active outside their homes and have multiple sexual partners. The prevalence of STIs make them more vulnerable to HIV infection. Increase in the reactive population would adversely affect rice production system in these countries. This will be a major concern for these countries because of the connection between malnutrition, hunger, famine and HIV/AIDS. The population dynamics and the role-play in these societies would also change as widows, grand parents and children suddenly take on roles they are unprepared for. Various kinds of constraints would be created in the farming system such as time and energy limitations created by HIV/AIDS provoked shortage.
HIV/AIDS created havoc could easily be imagined in the different components of the business system when supporting organs like finance, marketing, and logistics, HR, R&D and administration would experience frequent absence of staff and organization would have to suffer as the cost of training of technical man power which has already incurred would not give the desired returns expected earlier. Again cost of medication and compensation against the death of the staff would add on the burden of the organization. Recruiting new individuals, training them would again a constraint for the organizations under the global business recession. Moreover the organizations would not be able to get benefited with its experienced staff. HIV/AIDS created shortage of experienced technical manpower may change the shape of business system where an individual may have to have double or triple specialization to meet the working requirements of the organizations. Say a marketing man has to acquaint himself with the operations in finance or HR or say the logistics. This will lead to the shortage of experts in a specified field. The government expenses would have to increase on medication, awareness, hospitals, care and support of the positive people and other infrastructure development and this would lead to less allocation of funds towards other developmental activities. Ironically the population would keep on growing, as the infected population does not die soon after infection, as it takes years together. A sever resource crunch is likely to be experienced in these countries under this scenario.
So it is our responsibility as an individual and as a community, to change our life style and behavior so that we can control the spread of HIV/AIDS. We have to act now, not wait till HIV infect one of us, our friends, our community, our love ones, our colleagues or the whole community. We have to act now before this monster destroys us and we left with nothing to pass on to our future generations.

Previous studies have "seriously underestimated" the economic impact of the AIDS epidemic, which could cause economies in the hardest-hit nations to collapse in two generations, according to a World Bank study released yesterday, the Boston Globe reports (Donnelly, Boston Globe, 7/24). The report, titled "The Long-Run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and an Application to South Africa," found that while many economists had predicted that the epidemic would result in a 0.3% to 1.5% drop in African countries' gross domestic products each year, such estimates were flawed in the long term, failing to take into account the impact of education and parenting on the economy, according to Agence France-Presse (Agence France-Presse, 7/23). In contrast, the report says that the economic costs will be much higher. AIDS weakens the economies of African countries in three ways, according to the report. First, the disease mainly affects and kills young adults, removing their salaries and wiping out human capital -- the person's accumulated job and life skills. Second, the deaths of young people weaken or destroy families, ruining the mechanism by which a person passes on human capital to succeeding generations and draining the family resources needed to send children to school. Finally, the chance that the children themselves will eventually contract the disease in adulthood makes personal investment in education seem less important (World Bank release, 7/24). Therefore, while early damage may appear slight, these factors acting in combination could in the long run result in economic collapse (Agence France-Presse, 7/23).

South Africa
The report draws broader conclusions about other sub-Saharan African countries through its case study of South Africa. In the absence of the AIDS epidemic, South Africa may have experienced "modest but accelerating growth of per capita income," the report says (Reuters, 7/23). With an estimated 25% of South Africans ages 15 to 49 currently HIV-positive, the report estimates that by 2050 the per capita income per family will be half the amount it was in 1990, dropping to $12,901, according to the Globe (Boston Globe, 7/24). This suggests that South Africa's economy could face collapse within several generations "unless it combats its AIDS epidemic more urgently," according to a World Bank release (World Bank release, 7/24). In about 90 years, South Africa's per capita GDP could suffer a 50% decline, according to Shanta Devarajan, a report co-author and World Bank economist (Agence France-Presse, 7/23). Devarajan has presented the report to technicians in several government departments in the country (Reuters, 7/24).

Reaction
South Africa, which has become a "symbol for inaction on HIV/AIDS," must "bolster spending on public education" and President Thabo Mbeki, who "continues to be evasive about" the disease, must "throw his weight fully behind efforts to educate his citizens and change their behavior, efforts which have paid dividends in countries like Uganda," according to a Financial Times editorial (Financial Times, 7/24). "This report confirms how important it is for policy makers to act swiftly and effectively to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to treat those with the disease," Clive Bell, a study co-author and a World Bank research fellow, said, adding, "Keeping infected people alive and well ... so they can continue to live productive lives and take care of the next generation, is not only the compassionate thing to do, but it is also vital for a country's long-term economic future" (Reuters, 7/23). Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of the Toronto, said that the report "strikes me as missing the point," because regardless of the economic impact of the disease, "[w]e need to act because it is killing millions of people" (Boston Globe, 7/24).