Human immunodeficiency virus effect on dimensions of the positive people.

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is one of the most significant health and social problem the world is facing today. HIV has a global prevalence of 80% among the adults and 35 million people dying of diseases related to it as it weakens the human immune system. Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that causes HIV infection and hence AIDS. We cannot deny the fact that HIV as disease compromises different aspects of peoples lives. It may be socially, mentally, emotionally, physically, spiritually, sexually and many more. click on the video icon to learn more about HI virus.

The shock of an HIV positive diagnosis can be especially traumatic for someone who had not previously believed themselves to be at risk of acquiring the virus. This leads to a series of rejections and hate towards themselves. As with the impact on physical well-being, the impact of HIV on emotional well-being is highly variable. Obviously there is some kind of correlation between the two .For example there would be a greater decline in mental/emotional well-being to a person who hasn’t received ARVs to a person has been receiving the treatment. This is basically caused by the power of sight, seeing sometimes can dictate our feelings and emotions which directly affects our personality.

We all know that HIV can affect inimate relationships since any form of sexual contact can put the infected person’s partner at risk of getting infected with HIV. Infected people are aware of this disease but still be ignorant and perform unprotected sex with the intension of infecting more people

Spiritually there might be some confusion due to contradictions that they encounter between what they previously believed in, that gave them meaning in life and what they should now follow. This may make them ask themselves questions that cannot be answered. This may occur because they compare spirituality and their illness.  

Among the factors of health lifestyle, interaction with others( social factor) is a significant factor.In short, this is a factor relating to one self in a society and its organisation. It is often a mission for HIV positive people to interact with their peers hence unhealthy lifestyle result.It is also an  inevitable truth that maintaining a balanced social life is difficult, especially when the technology is advanced to it’s higher standards. It is simply easy to wake switch on your gadgets and allow them to do everything for you. This has provided a thumb for HIV positive people to hide, now that the world is rejecting them, a particular example in (VOX, 2018),HIV people find it hard to communicate well with their surroundings simply because HIV is incurable yet deadly contagious and everyone is running away from being infected by it, HIV infected people thus tend to live in isolation for the rest of their lives. another good example is in the video below:→