Keep A Child alive

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Dear All

Greetings from Brijesh

RNP+ a network of positive people started its activities towards the uplifment

of these Section by minimizing the stigma and discrimination attached with them

and to improve their quality of life. In order to start bridging the vast needs

of PLWHA and to ensure their participation in all HIV/AIDS related programs.

Our aim is to improve the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS by

minimizing stigma & discrimination carry with them and bring them towards the

main streams of the society with more confidence and dignity.

Despite the numerous promises and provisions made by the Indian government, the

state of many of the country's children continues to be pitiable.. Statistics

reveal that there are close to 13 million child laborers, about 3 to 5 lakh

children are forcibly engaged in prostitution and at least 18 million children

live on the streets in India. Coupled with child abuse and poverty figures, the

picture is far from pretty. A little help on your part can and will bring these

numbers down!

Many countries that had previously seen child-survival rates rise, as a result

of improved healthcare, are now seeing these rates fall again. It has been

estimated that without AIDS, Botswana’s under-5 mortality rate would have been

31 per 100,000 in 2002 compared to 107 with AIDS. By 2010, the country’s

under-5 mortality is expected to have increased by 100 deaths per 100,000 as a

result of AIDS.

Most regions of the world, including African regions, have seen a decline in

child mortality but in Southern Africa, the area most affected by HIV, under-5

mortality has increased.

In Africa, studies suggest that one in three newborns infected with HIV die

before the age of one, over half die before reaching their second birthday, and

most are dead before they are five years old.7

Conversely, in developed countries, preventive measures ensure that the

transmission of HIV from mother to child is relatively rare, and in those cases

where it does occur, a range of treatment options means that the child can

survive – often into adulthood. This shows that with funding, trained staff

and resources, the infections and deaths of many children in lower-income

countries might easily be avoided.

Children affected by AIDS

It can be argued that every child growing up in an area with high HIV prevalence

is affected by the epidemic regardless of whether they, or a close family

member, are infected.

HIV can damage a child’s life in three main ways: through its effects directly

on the child, on that child’s family, and on the community that the child is

growing up in.

The direct effects of HIV on children

Many children are themselves infected with HIV

The effects of HIV on a child’s family

Children live with family members who are infected with HIV.

Children act as carers for sick parents who have AIDS.

Many children have lost one or both parents to AIDS, and are orphaned.

An increasing number of households are headed by children, as AIDS erodes

traditional community support systems.

Children end up being their family’s principal wage earners, as AIDS prevents

adults from working, and creates expensive medical bills.

The effects of HIV on a child’s community

As AIDS ravages a community, schools lose teachers and children are unable to

access education.

Doctors and nurses die, and children find it difficult to gain care for

childhood diseases.

Children may lose their friends to AIDS.

Children who have HIV in their family may be stigmatized and affected by

discrimination.

Dear all you must be aware that the present scenario of children's infected and

affected is getting from bad to worse where as we are not so serious about them

RNP+ is successfully running a care home of 35 orphan Chaldean's by aids without

any support

without any support I  have taken the OATH that by 2010 at least 100000

Children's will be sponsored for their Educational need

to make them a responsible citizen of this great NATION INDIA

 

Therefore let us join hand to make the Children's future Better

NO DONATION PLEASE ADOPT OR SPONSOR

Brijesh

 

RNP+ 

Mahadev Nagar, Chitrakoot,

Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur-302021

Ph:+91-141-2353469, 4030861, Mob: 09351538722

E-mail: rnpplus@...

Rajasthan Network for People Living With HIV/AIDS

64, Mahadev Nagar, Chittrakoot,

Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur-302021 (Rajasthan)

Phone: 0141- 2353469, 4030861

Fax : 0141- 2353469