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HEALTH COMMISSIONER URGES RESIDENT TO GET TESTED FOR HIV

PHILIPSBURG-Health Commissioner Maria Bun-camper-Molanus is urging residents to get tested for HIV (Human Immunode­ficiency Virus) as the first step in prevention, treat­ment, and care for HIV/ AIDS.
"Not knowing one's status is among the main factors in the spread of the AIDS epi­demic," the Commissioner said in a press release is­sued via Government In­formation Service (GIS).
In Latin America, an es­timated 1.7 million people carry the virus, but more than two-thirds are un­aware of it. Those who don't know they carry the virus do not know that they may need life-saving drugs, GIS said. Worse, they may inadvertently transmit the virus to others.
"The more people who get tested for HIV will result in our society being able to control and eventually halt the spread of the disease, which is a global epidemic. People who get tested and learn they are HIV-positive can seek treatment to control the virus' progression. Those who learn they are HIV-negative have extra motivation to protect their HIV-free status," Buncamper-Molanus was quoted as saying. "I encourage our citizens to visit their fam­ily physicians to know their status."

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WOMEN AND HIV/AIDSIn recent years, the rate of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among women worldwide has been increasing. By the end of 2005, approximately 17.3 million women were living with HIV/AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). This figure represents nearly half the 38.6 million adults living with HIV/AIDS. Women make up a smaller percentage of HIV/AIDS patients in developed nations. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that nearly 944,305 Americans, including more than 178,463 females, were diagnosed with AIDS through 2004.Most cases of HIV infection in women are the result of sexual contact with infected men, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Use of needles tainted with the virus during intravenous drug use is the second most common method of transmission among women.Virtually all people with HIV will go on to develop AIDS. However, it can take a decade or more before HIV develops into full-blown AIDS. The rate of HIV infections that develop into full-blown AIDS among women in the United States has plateaued after rising steadily in recent years. This is largely a result of more effective therapies that keep the virus at bay. However, younger women are increasingly being diagnosed with HIV infection. Women age 24 and younger accounted for 15 percent of the female HIV/AIDS cases reported to the CDC from 2001 through 2004.In addition, rates of HIV infection among women of color have risen. According to HHS:* African-American and Hispanic/Latina women account for 81 percent of AIDS cases in women in the United States despite composing just one-fourth of the country’s female population.* More African-American women between the ages of 25 and 44 die from HIV/AIDS than from any other cause of death.

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____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ 24th AIDS CANDELIGHT MEMORIAL TAKEN FROM THE DAILY HERALD Monday May 21, 2007 “HIV/AIDS” COMMITMENT NEEDED TO LEAD WAY TO WORLD WITHOUT AIDS.In the opening remarks, Acting Lieutenant Governor Mathias Voges expressed his appreciation for the organizers of the event, which he said not only honoured AIDS victims worldwide, but also those here on the island. He reflected on the number of people affected by HIV/AIDS worldwide, pointing out that based on a survey done by the Dutch government St. Maarten has the largest number of people living with HIV or AIDS in the Netherlands Antilles. . He further said that with the abundance of readily available information regarding AIDS prevention methods the large number of people getting the HIV virus in the Caribbean could have been and can be avoided. Therefore, he said, it should be the mission of St. Maarteners to educate their young people at home and in schools about the reality of AIDS. Dr. Gerard van Osch of the AIDS Foundation said, "If we look at our local statistics we have done a pretty good job in preventing the epidemic from exploding in our faces. But we've done a horribly poor job in really getting the disease under control" He said despite 18 years of prevention programes in St. Maarten and 14 years of treatment, the number of new HIV infections per year had not decreased. He said St. Maarteners could not depend on one leader to help fight AIDS; this has to come from each one of us. He said everyone had to be committed, to lead the way to a world without AIDS. He said Government and key Government departments should commit at all levels; schools, churches, homosexuals, sex workers, doctors, nurses, laboratories, SVB and insurance companies should all join in the commitment to prevention, education and equality of victims in this worldwide epidemic, the AIDS virus.