Wednesday, December 17, 2008

周美芬促政府对症下药,遏阻女性爱滋患者增加

(吉隆坡-17日讯)马华妇女组主席拿汀巴杜卡周美芬促请政府加强推动妇女自我保护的醒觉运动,及对性生活活跃的瘾君子夫妇进行宣导工作,并对买卖淫者施与同等的刑法,以便有效遏阻女性爱滋患者增加的趋势。

据卫生部长拿督廖中莱透露,全国女性爱滋病带病毒者的人数已从1997年的5.02%增加至2007年的16.3%。其中75%染上爱滋病的女性患者年龄是介于20至39岁、70%是与异性性交被感染、60%则是已婚者。这说明大多数的女性爱滋病带原者由于缺乏正确认知和预防的方法,因此在不懂得保护自己的情况下,进行了不安全的性行为而受到感染。为遏制女性继续成为受害者,她建议政府制定一套有效制止情况进一步恶化的解决方案。无论是通过教育提升人民对婚姻忠诚的意识,抑或灌输进行安全性行为的重要性等,都是不可或缺的途径。

虽然如此,周美芬对于卫生部高度重视此问题,即计划成立防范女性爱滋病委员会,以专门研究预防及保护女性免受爱滋病迫害的策略及机制,表示欣慰,并赞扬在卫生部及妇女、家庭及社会发展部的努力下,爱滋病带病毒者人数已逐年下降,这表示卫生部推动的醒觉运动已取得一定的功效。

由于吸毒者共用针筒及性生活依旧活跃的瘾君子是导致爱滋病蔓延的祸源之一,因此政府有必要采取适当的应对措施,如确认瘾君子的背景并对其家庭进行宣导工作、提醒及教导患者伴侣相关的防范措施,才是根治问题的治标又治本方法。

另外,马华妇女组也呼吁有关当局严格管制买卖淫活动,即严厉取缔卖淫活动。同时,周美芬认为不仅是卖淫者受到对付,买淫者也应受到严厉的惩罚,以达到杀一儆百之效。

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1 comment:

thunderkajang said...

From the statistic shown, the main medium or factor is still through sexual activities. What can be concluded is neither male or female has enough consiousness towards safe intercourse prevention and not either which side should be blamed as the main factor. Is it the time for the government to implement sex education in secondary school and upper levels? It will suprise some of us if you know that nowadays some secondary school students and college students are the customers to prostitutes? What will happend next when they have lovers or engaged later???
I feel that not only Health Ministry and Women Developement Ministry should involve, but Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher Education, Ministry of Internal Affair, PDRM, PEMADAM, religious bodies, marriage counselling bodies etc shall sit together to find a better solution.
Aids is a global problem and we yet to find a common mechanism to resolve it, it fact we cant, we just can reduce or control on it...