Here is a mini guide about what we can do to stop AIDS menace in Indonesia :

1. Indulge in safe sex always. Pass the awareness around.
2. Sex education is banned in several states. Campaign to reinstate sex education in schools. This is important considering the number of children who get afflicted by AIDS every year indulging in unsafe sex.
3. Fight not only AIDS, but also the stigma attached with the disease. Most people suffer AIDS in silence due to the fear of being shunned in society. Some of them are denied their right to live with dignity due to their AIDS infection.
4. Pass on the awareness that medicines are now available that prevent transfer of AIDS infection from pregnant mothers to their children. Most women do not request the medicine, even after treatment to prevent mother-to-child-transmission because of the stigma attached with the disease.
5. Join Stop AIDS in children campaign. Every year 330, 000 children die of AIDS. Lets take steps to save them. Again this is possible by stopping mother-to-child-transmission of infection.

Candidasis on HIV/AIDS

This HIV/AIDS patient presented with a secondary acute oral pseudomembranous candidiasis infection. The immune systems in suffers with HIV undergoes a dramatic reduction in its effectiveness, resulting in the greater possibility of secondary opportunistic infections, whereupon, patients can develop spontaneous Candidasis fungal infections.

RNA Virus Infections, Retroviridae Infections, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral, Stomatognathic Diseases, Candidiasis, Virus Diseases

Apple Juice

Apple juice is a common beverage both for children and for adults, but in Indonesia, apple juice is often marketed specifically to children, who are informally considered its major consumers. Apple juice is also a component of several cocktails; it is also used as a filler in some drinks, because it is less expensive and more widely available than most other juices. It may also be produced and consumed in a carbonated form, referred to as sparkling apple juice.

Health benefits

Apple juice has a significant concentration of phenolics thought to help protect from many diseases associated with aging, including heart disease and cancer. Aside from other obvious fruit vitamins like vitamin C, apple juice also contains the mineral nutrient boron, which is thought to promote healthy bones (wikipedia.com)

Grateful

GOD INCREASES HIS BLESSINGS ON THOSE WHO ARE GRATEFUL

Every person is in need of God at every instant of life. From the air one breathes to the food he eats, from the ability to use one's hands to the faculty of speech, from being sheltered to being in a joyful spirit, one lives completely in need of what God creates and grants him. Still, a vast majority of people do not perceive their weaknesses and that they are in need of God. They suppose that things develop spontaneously or that they acquire everything by their own efforts. This is an important error, as well as a serious ingratitude towards God. Ironically, people who render their thanks to a person for even an insignificant gift, spend all their lives ignoring the countless blessings that God gives them all through their lives. However, so great are the blessings granted to a person that one could never count them. God relates this fact in a verse as follows:

If you tried to number God's blessings, you could never count them. God is Ever-Forgiving, Most Merciful. (Qur'an, 16: 18) (insigth magazine.com)

Spirituality Medicine

A good physician goes beyond the signs and symptoms of disease but also other factors influencing that disease, including his social and spiritual state. For example, if the diagnosis is cirrhosis of the liver then he must go beyond and find if it is related to alcoholism and if so, what caused the patient to have alcoholism. I have seen both Diabetic Coma and hyperthyroidism precipitated by severe family stress. The physician is best equipped to offer sympathy, comfort and counseling during death, loss and mourning. Such offering by the physician has better effect on the patient’s ability to cope with such loss than any tranquilizer. We must treat our patients like we would like ourselves and our relatives to be treated.

In a recent article published in “The Lancet”, May 10, 2003, Rosenfield et al evaluated spirituality in terminally ill patients. One hundred sixty-eight such patients who were expected to live less than 3 months due to terminal cancer, were selected. The outcome, especially in relation to their understanding of the meaning of life and religion and their behavior toward the illness, was evaluated. According to their conclusions, spirituality as measured by inner peace and meaning of life, helped these terminally ill patients avoid despair, wanting to die or have suicidal tendencies as compared to similar patients without spirituality. Thus, Rosenfield recommended that “health care providers should incorporate psychological and spiritual elements into the palliative care of dying patients.

Hope is also a medicine. Physicians may find that sometimes disbelief leads to despair and hopelessness. By rediscovering a patient’s spirituality, a physician may be able to connect him to God and offer hope as an agent to conventional treatment. This will improve the compliance of the patient in the treatment offered to him. Our duty is to uncover the built in but hidden spirituality within us and our patients. This awareness can be achieved by silent meditation, exploring nature, religious chanting like mantra , zikr or reading sacred scriptures, listening to spiritual music and caring for those in need. Spirituality in music or the healing power of music depends on the music. According to Ghazali, a famous Muslim saint, “the music which increases spirituality and brings one closer to God is good music but the music which dulls the spirituality and diverts from remembrance of God is not so good”.(Shahid Athar, 2008)