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Published: August 2, 2007
Contracting the HIV/AIDS virus used to be a death sentence, a fatal diagnosis that doomed a person to isolation from their community, judgment, and a slow, painful and futile battle. Today, with constantly progressing awareness about HIV and AIDS, successful treatments and support organizations in place around the world, the virus no longer has that fatal stigma.
People with HIV and AIDS now have networks of assistance based within the support organizations that provide information, counseling, treatment, and other helpful services. While researchers and doctors fight against the virus with medicine, the support organizations fight for the sick with community and care.
Support organizations generally serve many functions. They usually distribute awareness and information through at risk communities. They also provide counseling and guidance to people diagnosed with the virus, while also offering transportation, general medical check ups, referrals, support groups, etc. HIV/AIDS support organizations aim to help those with the virus understand, cope, and live with their affliction. With many of those infected being from impoverished economic classes (especially in Africa), support organizations provide essential services that most of those people wouldn't be able to access or afford. In the fight against AIDS, these support groups, and the networks of care they put in place, are perhaps the most effective weapons around.
Because the fight against HIV and AIDS is global, the support organizations in place differ in scope and size depending on where they are located and what resources are available. In America, support organizations like the Panhandle AIDS Support Organization (PASO) assist people with HIV and AIDS through a client/case manager relationship. Case managers work one on one with clients, advising them about health care, treatment options, and general demystification of the virus and what it means to live with it. They link clients together through support networks, therapy groups, and even online chatrooms.
In Africa, support organizations face an entirely different battle. The sheer number of people with HIV and AIDS on the African continent along with the staggering proliferation of the virus among impoverished communities make providing meaningful support an almost insurmountable challenge. But with groups like the HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Organization (HAPSCO) in Ethiopia, there is hope. Today, the support group involves 65,000 people working through men's and women's associations already in place to educate, test, treat, and counsel those infected. This grass roots approach allows for services and efforts to reach masses of sick people that would otherwise be completely on their own.
The scope and scale of the war against HIV and AIDS is universal. It's only through support organizations like PASO and HAPSCO that infected people get the community, assistance, and treatment they deserve and need. It's thanks to such support organizations and the hundreds of thousands of dedicated volunteers, workers, and doctors around the world working to help those in need that contracting HIV and AIDS is no longer a death sentence. It is thanks to them that there is hope.
Sources:
HIV/AIDS Counseling. TASO Uganda.org. 2003. The AIDS Support Organization. 25 July 2007. http://www.tasouganda.org/counselling.php.
Services. Panhandle ASO.org. 2007. 25 July 2007. http://www.panhandleaso.org/services.htm.
HAPSCO Background. HAPSCO.org. 2002-2007. 25 July 2007. http://www.hapcso.org/background.html.
Support organizations generally serve many functions. They usually distribute awareness and information through at risk communities. They also provide counseling and guidance to people diagnosed with the virus, while also offering transportation, general medical check ups, referrals, support groups, etc. HIV/AIDS support organizations aim to help those with the virus understand, cope, and live with their affliction. With many of those infected being from impoverished economic classes (especially in Africa), support organizations provide essential services that most of those people wouldn't be able to access or afford. In the fight against AIDS, these support groups, and the networks of care they put in place, are perhaps the most effective weapons around.
Because the fight against HIV and AIDS is global, the support organizations in place differ in scope and size depending on where they are located and what resources are available. In America, support organizations like the Panhandle AIDS Support Organization (PASO) assist people with HIV and AIDS through a client/case manager relationship. Case managers work one on one with clients, advising them about health care, treatment options, and general demystification of the virus and what it means to live with it. They link clients together through support networks, therapy groups, and even online chatrooms.
In Africa, support organizations face an entirely different battle. The sheer number of people with HIV and AIDS on the African continent along with the staggering proliferation of the virus among impoverished communities make providing meaningful support an almost insurmountable challenge. But with groups like the HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Organization (HAPSCO) in Ethiopia, there is hope. Today, the support group involves 65,000 people working through men's and women's associations already in place to educate, test, treat, and counsel those infected. This grass roots approach allows for services and efforts to reach masses of sick people that would otherwise be completely on their own.
The scope and scale of the war against HIV and AIDS is universal. It's only through support organizations like PASO and HAPSCO that infected people get the community, assistance, and treatment they deserve and need. It's thanks to such support organizations and the hundreds of thousands of dedicated volunteers, workers, and doctors around the world working to help those in need that contracting HIV and AIDS is no longer a death sentence. It is thanks to them that there is hope.
Sources:
HIV/AIDS Counseling. TASO Uganda.org. 2003. The AIDS Support Organization. 25 July 2007. http://www.tasouganda.org/counselling.php.
Services. Panhandle ASO.org. 2007. 25 July 2007. http://www.panhandleaso.org/services.htm.
HAPSCO Background. HAPSCO.org. 2002-2007. 25 July 2007. http://www.hapcso.org/background.html.
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