HIV positives want to work for the AIDS patients

HIV positives should come out openly to fight against the social stigma and they should work to change the attitude of the common people regarding AIDS. This was stated by none other than two HIV positive patients while speaking in an awareness programme organized in Sambalpur on the eve of the world aids day on Tuesday. The positive duo even appealed the people not to hate the patients affected with AIDS. The programme was organized by BISWA where the two attended as guest of honours.

“It was quite painful when I came to know that I was affected with HIV positive in 2007. But than I decided keep my self involve in creating awareness about the deadly disease. I faced several difficulties due to ignorance and lack of awareness of the people about the disease. So we formed an organization with the help of government involving HIV positives patients of the region. ” HIV positive patient Thakur Nanda told while talking to TOI.

Sources said, people are still not aware about the AIDS. Especially in rural areas people are totally ignorant about the AIDS and its preventive method. They do outcast him from the village once they come to know about affected person. Even the family members do not help the patients with a fear of the co-villagers. in such a situation patients do not want to come forward freely. “I know the village people they just out cast me from the village once they come to know about me. Even my family members do not come forward to co-operate me. So I understand the pain of departing from the family members and society”, another HIV positive patient Prakash Patel told.

According to them, they have formed an organization in the name of Sambalpur Network of positive people (SNPP) where as many as 135 persons tested HIV positive have joined as members. The organization is looking after the welfare and treatment of the patients. “We have closed connection with NECO and ART centre located at Burla and we take all necessary help to provide medicines and health care to our members, we have also opened a office at Sambalpur to give information to our members regarding health care and medicines”, the project coordinator of the SNPP Tusarkant Pradhan told.

In an another programme, Utsarga, the premier blood donation organization of Sambalpur organized a programme at Homeopathy College, where doctors claim homeopathy has specific medicines that give good response on the HIV..“I have experimented homeopathy medicines on few positive patients and the result is amazing. We have medicines to partially cure the deadly disease.”, Homeopathy doctor Ram Charan Pradhan claimed. According to him, homeopathy has ability to cure AIDS but it requires lot of costly experiments. "But we need government support for further experiments and examination to over come the deadly disease", he added.