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Children are said to be future citizens. And adolescents are the citizens in making. Society considers them as a confused population and many times they are addressed as a ‘problem group’ in many contexts and on separate occasions. Words like ‘terrible teens’ are a reflection not of the approach of the adolescents towards the society, but of the approach of society towards them. All the commonly prevalent teenage social problems – socially deviant behavior, drug abuse, teenage smoking and drinking, adventurous sexual behavior and tendency to jumble with the law – are all a result of the conflict between a grown-up body and mind, which is not expected and accepted as grown-up.
AIDS in the adolescents group is a similar biosocial problem, which has taken form of a crisis in some parts of the world. The root causes of this are almost all the aforementioned factors that sum up to spell AIDS!
Who are 'youth'?
This is a tricky question. Various studies and reports take various ages as ‘youth’ medical textbooks describe boys between 12-20 years and girls between 10-18 years as adolescents. WHO refers to persons between age of 10 and 19 as adolescents and those between 10 and 24 as ‘young people’. Most of the international data of HIV/AIDS studies are for age group 15-24 years. For general consideration, it is safe to consider all persons between 10-25 years as young people. And they are the focus here.
Prepubescent 12-14 (male) 10-12 (female)
Pubescent 14-16 (male) 12-14 (female)
Post-pubescent 16-20 (male) 14-18 (female)
Table 1 Adolescents (years)
This group comprises about 20% of the world’s population. In developing countries where fertility rates are higher, they can form even greater part – up to 40% sometimes. This age group is the most healthy and active age group. This is going to be the economically productive group just at the age when effects of HIV contracted in teen-years would manifest as fully blown aids. This age group is clinically considered the least vulnerable for death and various chronic illnesses. Infection contracted in youth is also likely to be ignored because of apparent healthy state and therefore its chances of spreading to others in the same group are higher.
Vulnerability
Young people are much more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS than older people are. Because of the stage of their social, emotional, psychological and physical development they tend to experiment with risky behavior. What is more dangerous is the lack of awareness and a confidence that ‘it can’t happen to me.’
Risk-taking behavior is seen in:
▪ Sexual experimentation
▪ Experimentation with injectable prohibited drugs
▪ Smoking
▪ Alcoholism
A young person's environment is also a big stimulus, which drives them towards various habits. Taking alcoholism as an example, it was estimated that one in four US children (19 million in all), before age of 18 lived in a family with a member who was an alcoholic or abused alcohol. There is no reason to believe that situation is better in other parts of the world. The other condition perplexing this situation is lack of knowledge on part of young people about what constitutes a risky behavior. Having multiple sexual partners or experimenting with various drugs or alcohol is a matter of fun for them. In fact sometimes it is seen as a matter of boasting in front of peers. They fail to understand adverse impact of such things on their health and even if they do understand, it shows their carelessness about those things – a characteristic of the age group!
Sometimes the cause behind risk-taking behavior is not with the youth but with the society. In a large part of the world, sexuality is still a matter of embarrassment and shame; young people in such societies do not get a chance during their puberty and adolescence of the exact understanding of the biophysical changes they are undergoing. Similarly they don't have reliable sources which can explain to them facts about sexuality and safe sexual practices.
This results in the person feeling uncomfortable about one's sexuality, resulting in channeling it the wrong way, with wrong partners. These people, even if they know about the risks of various STDs, AIDS, or of pregnancy as a result of unprotected intercourse, do not use condoms. They just can't go and buy it because of buying condom from a third person means revealing one's sexuality to an unknown agent of the society. To relieve young people from such embarrassment, state and central governments in India have tried to find a solution. Open boxes of condoms are put in public hospitals and other public places. They are meant to be taken away for free and whoever wants condoms can take away them from those boxes in any quantity. But still the fear of someone seeing them taking a packet from the box and resultant embarrassment, is too much for them to even look at those boxes!
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Good Antony Felix O. O. Simbowo | Jan 3rd, 2005
True. Its only when we care that the stigma associated with AIDS, especially in the third world, can be reduced.
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