This UP village is sick of AIDS:

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This UP village is sick of AIDS:

[india News] Etah (UP), Residents of the village of Samaspur, near

Etah, in Uttar Pradesh have decided to take firm steps to combat the

menace of AIDS.

According to official estimates, there have been at least four

reported cases of AIDS related deaths in the area over the last

month.

The district administration has now swung into action and a sampling

test for eight people were conducted. Five of them have been tested

positive.

According to R P Sukhla, District Magistrate, Etah, all measures to

control the spread of the infection is being taken.

" Around 15 days back, we received an information that there are some

AIDS victims in this village. So the AIDS control team at the

district level was sent to this village and we had done sampling

tests for eight people and according to the reports five have been

tested positive. They have been given medicine and we are trying to

identify them and are trying to control the it (the syndrome) to

some extent, said the DM.

The residents of the poor village, with a small population of not

more than five thousand, are very ignorant of what AIDS is all

about.

In most of the cases, the infected people are those, who have gone

to work in metropolitan cities like Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata,

Bangalore etc.

" I have been suffering for quite a long time. I had gone to Delhi

for work. I contracted the disease there, " said Asim, an AIDS

victim.

Now, the villagers are feeling insecure and have now requested the

government to take immediate steps to stop the deadly virus from

spreading by sending a team of doctors to the village.

Nabbo, whose husband has succumbed to AIDS, fears that she and two

of her sons might have also contracted the virus.

" I do not know what his disease was. He was in Mumbai for work and

he passed away there. Now we want that a doctor should come here and

tell us if we too are fine or not, " said Nabbo.

" I earnestly request the government to send a team of doctors to

this village so that people here can be made aware of the infection,

added Jagdish, another villager.

India has an estimated 5.1 million HIV positive people, the second

highest after South Africa. Experts say the number of those infected

could quadruple by 2010. (ANI)

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