by EKHATOR CHRISTIAN OSAZEE
Published on: May 10, 2003
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Type: Opinions

AIDS is one modern day disease that the present medical geniuses have not been able to provide a cure for. Though the virus (HIV) causes great and grave havoc against mankind, there has been successful diagnosis. However experts in the field of medicine have not succeeded in killing this tough virus without killing its victim.

The most threatened group of people in Africa is those in the business community. It is a well-known fact, that most commercial sex workers in Africa stands the risk of been exposed to HIV virus, but young African Business owners and executives are of equal concern, because of the grave dangers associated with untimely demise of this special class of Africans. Going by the dynamic nature of the business world, it is not difficult to see young business executives taking out their passion for a light and unprotected sex-game with commercial sex workers.

The future of Africa's economic bliss in this “Information Age”, rest on the shoulders of a group of people. Young business owners are the life-wire of Africa's frail economic system. Africa cannot afford to sit back with a big smile and watch this virus shrink the already little population of business men and women. It cannot hold the HIV scourge, reason being that young people are not adequately armed with HIV virus information and the Wrath of AIDS. Thousands of young business owners and potential entrepreneurs are already exposed to this deadly virus. The most shocking news is that African Governments have no Health Blueprint on how to jointly fight this global disease with the most informed group's of our time.

The information community can do a lot to help the business community in the area of well researched and evident-based HIV VIRUS information. This information will serve as the first wall of defense against the ever increasing and advancing forces of the AIDS/HIV combined soldiers. Business people hardly create the time to study health journals and newsletters, but a well researched and concise information on how diseases can slow down their progress and retard their drive for profit could act as a bait for them to read and listen to what the information community has to say on health issues. HEALTH IS WEALTH, and the wealth of the future of Africa's economy rest on the broad shoulders of its growing population of young and vibrant entrepreneurs.

It is quite a shock to know that a thing so small can wreck and threaten the destiny of a thing so big. Man, by all standards, cannot be compared to a little brainless creature as the HIV virus. The virus though invisible to the human eyes, expect with the aid of a powerful electromagnetic microscope is putting our very existence on the Red Alert. Man must come together in unison and let all contribute their quarters on the way and ways to arrest the advances of the tiny soulless creatures.


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