Healthy New Year – 2009
We wish all our users a very happy and healthy New Year 2009! Thanks for all the support and encouragement, bouquets and brickbats.
Year 2009 would bring out some more products from our stable, and we hope you like them too. We hope to keep serving your healthcare needs and will continue to strive to make your health better.
“Cheers to your good health“
- Team Healthizen
Healthizen: Healthy New Year
WORLD AIDS DAY
‘AIDS’ – the most dreaded disease – is a threat to men, women and children on all the continents of the world.
AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome which is caused by a virus called HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus).
· Acquired means to get infected with
· Immune deficiency means that the body’s immune system is weakened and cannot fight back diseases
· Syndrome means a group of health signs and symptoms that make up a disease
According to UNAIDS (The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS), the estimation for 2007 showed that there were 33.2 million people living with HIV, which includes 1.9 to 2.3 million children. In 2006, the Government of India estimated that about 2.45 million Indians were living with HIV.
World AIDS Day was started on 1st December 1988. 1st December 2008 – marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. Although we have come a long way since 1988, there is still much more to be done. World AIDS Day is seen as an opportunity for the world to come together and demonstrate the importance of AIDS awareness in unison.
We all know that the use of contraceptives prevents the spread of HIV infection. But which is the ideal contraceptive to prevent HIV infection or AIDS? Are HIV and AIDS the same disease or two different diseases? Once infected with HIV means you have got AIDS? Do you know the answers to these questions? There are such many queries that people are confused with, and they do not know the right person who can clear their confusions. This special issue on ‘World AIDS Day’ on Healthizen.com has some informative articles on HIV, contraceptives and contraception, and HIV facts, which will help you clarify many of your queries.
Always bear in mind that your one wrong step can put your entire life in jeopardy. So, get aware and create awareness to guard yourself and your dear ones against this dreadful virus – HIV.
