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SAHABAT
SAHABAT adalah singkatan untuk Persatuan Perantaraan Pesakit-Pesakit
Kelantan yang telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 1999. Persatuan ini ditubuhkan
hasil cetusan ide pengasasnya, En Marzuki Santokh dan beberapa orang
sukarelawan. SAHABAT juga merupakan ahli bersekutu Majlis AIDS
Malaysia (MAM). Kumpulan sasaran SAHABAT adalah mereka yang
hidup dengan HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), mereka yang berisiko untuk mendapat
HIV/AIDS seperti pengguna dadah, pasangan dan keluarga mereka, mereka yang ditahan di, atau/dan dibebaskan daripada Penjara
Pengkalan Chepa dan juga komuniti. Ini adalah kerana tahap pengetahuan dan kesedaran tentang HIV/AIDS adalah rendah di
kalangan mereka ini dan juga komuniti.
Aktiviti utama SAHABAT adalah bertujuan mengurangkan risiko jangkitan
HIV/AIDS di kalangan mereka yang berisiko tinggi. Aktiviti pencegahan
ini adalah samada di peringkat primer yang melibatkan mereka yang masih
belum dijangkiti HIV/AIDS dan/atau di peringkat sekunder bagi
mengurangkan rebakan daripada mereka yang telah pun dijangkiti
HIV/AIDS. Aktiviti yang dijalankan adalah selaras dengan pelan strategik
nasional untuk HIV/AIDS yang bertujuan mencapai sasaran millenium
Malaysia dari segi HIV/AIDS. Aktiviti-aktiviti ini juga dijalankan selaras
dengan aktiviti-aktiviti seumpamanya di peringkat nasional. Contoh aktviti
yang dijalankan oleh SAHABAT adalah sesi pengajaran/pembelajaran
tentang HIV/AIDS yang dijalankan samada di DIC SAHABAT dan/atau di
kalangan komuniti yang berkepentingan (seperti penghuni penjara). Aktivti
lain yang dijalankan termasuklah ‘outreach’ yang bertujuan menggalakkan PLWHA (‘People Living With HIV/AIDS) untuk tampil di
dalam komuniti sejagat demi membimbing mereka untuk hidup tanpa stigma dan diskriminasi dan seterusnya membantu menghalang
rebakan HIV/AIDS.
NSEP ataupun program pertukaran jarum dan alat suntikan bermula di Kelantan pada penghujung tahun 2007. Program ini
dilaksanakan oleh sebuah badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) iaitu Persatuan Perantaraan Pesakit Pesakit Kelantan (SAHABAT) di bawah
naungan Majlis Aids Malaysia. Program NSEP ini sehingga sekarang telah meliputi daerah Kota Bharu, Pasir Mas, Ketereh, Melor
dan Bachok. Sehingga Julai 2010, seramai 2410 pengguna dadah secara suntikan telah berdaftar dengan SAHABAT iaitu masing-
masing 1383 pada 2008, 750 pada 2009 dan 277 pada 2010. Melalui program NSEP ini, SAHABAT telah berjaya menarik mereka
yang berisiko HIV/AIDS (Pengguna Dadah) kepada cara hidup yang lebih sihat.
HIV & Mosquito by Tim Patterson, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Tulane University
By now, the CDC has long debunked the myth that HIV can be transmitted by the bite of a blood sucking mosquito. However, the
fact remains that some people are still confused about this pesky vector and its disease carrying capabilities, especially in areas where
other mosquito-borne diseases are prevalent. Years and years of tests and research have stated overwhelmingly that mosquitoes
cannot transmit the HIV virus. Here’s why. Experiments and observations indicate that when a female mosquito bites a human, it
does not inject its own or another organism’s blood into that person. Rather, it inserts saliva, which plays the role of a lubricant so the
mosquito can feed more effectively. This injection of saliva into the bloodstream may contain viruses and parasites from a previous
meal, as the disease particles reside and multiply in the mosquito’s salivary glands. Unlike a syringe or needle, blood is not
interchanged from mosquito to victim or from victim to victim. During the course of its next bite, the mosquito would transfer the
potential infection to the following unknowing host solely through saliva. This is how the mosquito vector is notorious for spreading
diseases such as malaria, dengue, yellow fever, and the encephalitis viruses.
Thankfully, this is not the case for the HIV virus.
For the virus to pass on, it would have to survive and replicate inside the mosquito until another person is bitten. Fortunately, the HIV
virus cannot endure the hostile environment inside the mosquito’s stomach and is digested along with the blood meal after 1-2 days. If
a mosquito were to suck the blood of an HIV positive person, the virus will have been completely destroyed before it has the chance
to be transmitted. The mosquito itself does not even become infected with HIV. In the case of malaria and yellow fever however,
these diseases have evolved a series of transmission tricks to avoid being detected as food. As a very interesting escape route, the
malaria parasite has developed a method to flee the destructive digestive system as quickly as possible and replicate in the completely
separate and safe salivary duct. Some parasites are even unaffected by the digestive enzymes inside the mosquito’s stomach. In
addition, it helps that biting insects routinely fly to a resting area to digest their meal instead of immediately biting another person,
allowing time for the stomach to efficiently destroy the virus. And since the HIV particles no longer exist to travel to and invade the
salivary glands, the mechanism that most mosquito-borne diseases utilise to spread to others does not work for HIV.
Additional evidence concludes that since HIV particles circulate at low levels in the blood, well below the levels of other known
mosquito-borne diseases, the potential for a new transmitted infection is that much closer to an absolute zero. For the HIV to transmit
between humans, it would take roughly 10 million mosquitoes bites that had begun feeding on an HIV positive person to receive a
single unit of HIV from contaminated mosquito mouthparts. The odds are in our favour.
CALENDAR
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ADVOCACY MEETINGS
Exhibition at the International
Islamic University Malaysia for
“AIDS Fundrasing”, Gombak
Exhibition at Sungai Buloh
Hospital.
Exhibition at PICC for “Sidang
Asia Pasifik ke 61”, Putrajaya
“Karnival HIV & AIDS serta
Forunm Perdana Hal Ehwal Islam”
di Pengkalan Tentera Laut Di Raja
Malaysia, Lumut
Exhibition for “Kempen Kesihatan”
in Tampin
For more information contact Guna
@ +603 40451033
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MAF FUNDRAISING
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Melinda Looi vibrant “Circle of
Hope” design umbrella and sports
bottle for sale
For more information contact
Shanthini @+ 603 40451033
Umbrella RM25.00
Sports Bottle RM25.00
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and Malaysian AIDS Foundation
are on
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sian.AIDS.Council
and
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