AIDS Cases Rising in Muslim Countries

AIDS Cases, Patients with a deadly diseaseAIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in Muslim majority countries reported increases. This condition is mainly due to low condom use and sexual activity between people who are often covered up.

AIDS is the final stage of HIVdisease, which normally takes 5-10 years of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to AIDS. The disease causes severe damage to the immune system. This condition gradually destroys the immune system, which makes it harder for the body to fight infection.

The new study, recently released in the journal PLoS Medicine on a study conducted by researchers from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, the sums of many studies in Arabic, French and English. As reported by The New York Times, AIDS cases increased in many Muslim countries. Factor is men who have sex with men in secret for fear of social sanctions (homophobia), religious intolerance and fear of prison or executed.

The report said that about 2-3 percent of men in Muslim countries to have sex with men. Plus a low percentage of condom use among both gay and bisexual men is common.

Most of these people when this biseksualitasnya secret status at risk infecting their wives. In some countries, even male prostitutes are often married to women for the demands of social life when the man had previously had sex unprotected free. Marriage that gave birth to a baby and lead to increased transmission of HIV. Truck drivers, prisoners, and street children are often infected with HIV.

In Pakistan, HIV infection rates increased rapidly in the transsexual prostitutes. The lowest rate of condom use also reported in the densely populated countries such as Egypt and Pakistan, while condom use is highest in the Sudan, Oman and Lebanon.

But since according to religious taboos, accurate statistics on some health aspects of the government’s hard to get the Middle East. International health authorities say that the highest AIDS infection rates in the world that comes through transmission from mother to fetus are in Muslim countries.

To fight the spread of the AIDS epidemic, some countries have implemented mandatory HIV testing for marriage licenses and work visas.

HIV-AIDS virus can be spread by:

1. Through sexual contact
Including oral sex and anal sex

2. Through blood
Through blood transfusion or transmission as a syringe alternately

3. From mother to child
A pregnant woman can transmit the virus to her fetus through the bloodstream, or nursing mothers can pass on to her baby through her breastmilk.