Leprosy, AIDS and Tuberculosis patients need your support.Please stay with them if you come in contact of any such person in reality & help them for their treatment. Brush aside the wrong social stigma. Because all 3 diseases are not contagious at all and also not highly infectious. Leprosy and TB are completely curable also by MDT & DOTS treatment respectively.
Only sympathy, co-operation, help & guidence for treatment including help for good nutrition, rehabilitation in good habitat, mental support is needed. Please do not hate them ignorantly. Stay with them and help in their cure. Leprosy and Tuberculosis are spread by airborne droplets from respiratory tract by sneezing, coughing or nose discharges from rhinitis like many other respiratory infectious diseases e.g. measles, influenza, chicken pox etc. As these patient are not needed to be kept aside from society, likewise leprosy and tuberculosis patients also to remain among us. Only help them to get treated appropriately at right time. And if we say about AIDS, the infection of HIV (Human Immuno-deficiency Virus) does not occur so easily through airborne way or contact like any other disease we suffer from. It only spreads through --
And where the matter of the sexual mode of spread comes, it is the fact that almost all human have sex as part of normal life and many of them have undisclosed multiple sexual partners without got infected with HIV luckily. So do we hate all humans around us for sex? And whether a person is monogamous or polygamous, it is a moral issue, it should not hinder in the way to cure or proper treatment of any diseased person. And it is also the fact that a HIV infected person may be got infected from her/ his spouse or partner who is polygamous with unprotected sexual habits. Whatever else any patient should get help from hospitals and society. Because we have to stop the spread of these diseases at least at this stage. We should know 2 facts about AIDS --
Treatment of these diseases are available at District level Govt. Hospitals at almost free of cost. At first, Investigations can be done at District Hospital. For Leprosy, skin microbiological study at Pathology department and for HIV infection investigation can be done at ICTC clinic of the District Hospital. ART is available here. MDT & DOTS can be available from Block level hospital (BPHC), even from your nearest Health Sub-center after once TB or Leprosy is diagnosed. Sputum examination for TB suspect is done at BPHC onwards. Please send the patients there for cure. Please join the campaign to support these patients socialy, mentaly, medicaly and economically. It should not be only the matter of joke like 'Buladi' among the public anymore. Here are few important links -
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AuthorDr. Anindya Das, B.H.M.S. Archives
October 2018
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