Aids

The word `AIDS' stands for Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome. It is caused by a tiny germ known as Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus or HIV. This virus destroys the body's natural ability to fight against all infections, thus clearing the way for various opportunistic infections which lead to the disease AIDS.

The World Health Organization (WHO) maintains that the major mode of transmission of the disease AIDS is through sexual contact with the infected persons. The disease, therefore, can be transmitted from woman to man, man to woman or man to man. Homosexuality, one of the worst forms of sexual permissiveness, and sexual promiscuity, which is rampant in Western societies, are the main causes of the spread of this disease. It can also be transmitted through blood by transfusing the blood of HIV- infected persons to others. Similarly, the disease is common among drug addicts who share infected needles and syringes.