Being neglected because of disease
Posted by African Press International on April 5, 2012
NEPAL: HIV-positive children, orphans neglected
RAKAM, – In the village of Rakam in Dailekh District, about 700km northwest of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, 12-year-old Ravi* is living with HIV and has no idea if he will finish his education.
“I feel weak all the time. My uncle is tired of hearing my complaints,” he told IRIN. Barely six when he lost his parents to AIDS-related illnesses, he now lives with his father’s brother and family, who are struggling to support him.
It is proving a challenge. They can’t even afford the bumpy eight-hour bus journey to the nearest city of Surkhet for his CD4 count test, which measures immune strength.
According to the National Centre for AIDS and sexually transmitted disease (STD) Control (NCASC), there are close to 5,000 children under 14 years of age living with HIV in Nepal today, but local NGOs and health workers estimate the real number to be much higher.
“There could be many more orphans and children living with HIV, but the government of Nepal has failed to pay any attention to their plight. Supplying medicines is not enough,” said AIDS activist Deepa Bohara, the coordinator for NGO Parivartan ko Lagi Pahuch (Access for Change).
There are as many as 15 HIV-positive orphans and children in Dailekh alone, the group reported. “We are extremely worried about the welfare of these children. We hope to get enough government support to help them,” said Khagendra Jung Shah, chief of the Dailekh District Hospital.
His office can only provide life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs – there is no separate budget to give these children any social support. Moreover, there are no programmes to sponsor their education, pay for medical expenses or offer psychosocial counselling.
Dailekh is one of the poorest districts in the country, with most people living on less than US$1 per day, according to government figures.
Stigma remains high in Nepal, and HIV-positive orphans sometimes face neglect from relatives after their parents die. In one extreme case six months ago, a five-year-old orphaned HIV-positive child (name withheld upon request) died of exposure after his relatives forced him to sleep in the barn out of fear that he would infect the other children.
“I don’t fear dying from AIDS, but constantly worry about the day when my mother dies and I will be alone in this world,” said Ashim *, 10, who lives with his HIV-positive mother.
“We are extremely worried, not only about the orphans, but also those whose HIV-positive parents are alive. What happens after their parents die?” said another health worker, Sushil Bikram Thapa from Nepal STD and AIDS Research Centre, a local NGO.
According to the National Centre for AIDS and STD Control in the Ministry of Health and Population, there are more than 50,000 adults and children living with HIV, and an estimated overall prevalence of 0.30 percent in the adult population (15-49 years old).
*Not his real name
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source www.irinnews.org
mothman777 said
How the hell are these kids getting HIV? If it is stated that it is through child prostitution, or from their parents through childbirth, I could not accept this. It sounds like Bill Gates’ population reduction by vaccine programme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaokq8v9JPI
The only way HIV is getting into Nepal is not through sex tourism, but vaccines maliciously poisoned with HIV to murder these innocent kids.
I would recommend that the government here avoid giving their kids all vaccines from the west, or anywhere else. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed, and disease stems from an overly acidic body, lack of minerals, and lack of vitamin D3 from too little sunlight.
The process of pleomorphism in an unhealthy body causes friendly bacteria and other organisms to change into harmful pathogenic life-threatening disease, when viewed live in blood under a dark field microscope. Considering these kids are living in a very sunny part of the world, that they are not covering up their skins, then lack of vitamin D3 should not be occurring, also, the air should be extremely pure there and very rich in oxygen with all the surrounding forests, and oxygen kills all pathogens in sufficient quantity as it alkalizes the whole body.
Also, the soil there, so close to the Himalayas, should be extremely rich in minerals, and if for some reason it is depleted in minerals, then they should remineralize the soil with good quality basalt rock dusts and any other rock dusts that may be necessary to fully remineralize the soil. See my essay on remineralization of sol at ‘Mothman777′s Blog’. Prof Samuel Epstein said that 95% of all disease is caused by poor mineral content of foods.
The human body was not designed to need to use vaccines, which contain horrific brain damaging chemicals such as thiomersal which is very largely mercury. Simple cleanliness, good food and sunshine are all these kids need. I recommend banning all vaccination there immediately, and they will see incidences of all diseases drop. The government will have to face the true facts, and not mere rubbish from so-called ‘doctors’.
Gates has already stated quite clearly that he intends to reduce the world’s population with vaccines (the non-Jewish population that is – Gates is Jewish). It is a well-documented fact that spiked hepatitis B vaccinations have already been deliberately used to infect unsuspecting gays in America with HIV leading to AIDS and then death; and this process is simply being carried out in Africa and India too on any so-called undesirables that the world elite wish to exterminate.
Nepalese government, please suspend all vaccination programmes now, you are only harming your children with any kind of vaccine anyway, including with the uncontaminated ones, and vaccines do not work anyway, just read the numerous papers on the facts of this. Do not let the vaccine pushers fool you. Have some of the current stocks of vaccines you have at the moment laboratory tested for any evidence of poisoning in this manner. http://www.rense.com/general87/avoid.htm
http://www.originofaids.com/articles/early.htm