Sexual Health is a very big deal, what with the rise of HIV positive patients and other sexual transmitted diseases. The worst thing is when innocent children are being infected too by the deadly disease. How? Children of course get infected mostly through pregnancy when they are still babies in the womb. If their mothers are HIV positive, they are likely to get infected too. How far is this fact reaching to the people out there? I don’t think there is enough awareness, or else the figure would not increase, when it should be decreasing.
The numbers of HIV positive tests are rising, meaning more and more people are getting infected on daily basis. However, the number of people who get infected with STDs are even more. In American alone, 12 million people get infected with STDs and about 800,000 people are diagnosed as HIV positive. Where are we heading in terms of fighting HIV and STDs? Sexual Health is not something new, but then again people take it very lightly, as if it is not important at all, when it is in fact the most important education of all. However, some very old-fashioned people would think that sexual education is not appropriate to be given in school as it is a taboo subject. Even at home, they don’t give proper sex education so where are we going to learn about sex?
It is time to call for a more aggressive approach in teaching young people about sexual health, and create awareness among the parents about how important it is to teach their children about sex. It is no longer a taboo but a must-learned subject - after all, HIV has been increasing with more people getting infected with STDs. People are dying every day, as there is no cure for HIV. How long are we going to wait before our children get infected with sex-related diseases and what are we going to do then? No more waiting, we must take action now before it is too late.