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Good health


Farhad Ali
]]> Sun, 07 May 2006 02:33:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/38284 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/18570 at farhadali4u@yahoo.com
thanks]]> Thu, 05 Aug 2004 01:20:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/18570 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/13456 Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:02:00 EST http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/13456 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/12844
Mail me at farhad_for_u@rediffmail.com

Peace
Farhad Ali
Modicare Foundation
New Delhi
India]]> Sat, 13 Dec 2003 06:17:00 EST http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/12844 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/11018 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:49:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/11018 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/11017 Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:20:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/11017 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10864 Everyone deals with peer pressure at some point in their lives. You can be pressured toward just about anything including...
· Drugs
· Kissing
· Sex
· Getting bad grades
· Drinking
· Teasing someone
· Breaking the law
· Using Firecrackers
· Smoking
· Gossiping
· Shoplifting
· Joining a sports team
· Joining a gang
· Using a gun
· Fighting
Who deals with the consequences?
The irony is that those people that pressure you don't have to deal with your consequences. If you tease someone because others think its cool, you'll hurt that person's feelings, and as a result you won't feel great about yourself either. Caving in to sexual pressure can make you very vulnerable to getting hurt emotionally. Many of these things can put you in legal trouble. A criminal record can cause you difficulty when trying to get a job in the future. If your parents find out, you may destroy the trust you have earned from them, and as a result the privileges you enjoy may get taken away. Your body and health can suffer. Some of these things could result in permanent damage to your body.
Why do we give in?
Even when people are aware of all these consequences, they may still go ahead and do things they don't feel comfortable doing. Why? Because we live in a society. No human lives completely alone. Every day we are forced to interact with others. Our success is greatly effected by the sum of these interactions. Imagine trying to get your daily tasks done when everyone you interact with puts you down and interrupts your train of thought. Now imagine what you can accomplish with the help and encouragement of everyone around you. So, our success in life and even in day to day activities depends a great deal on our ability to get along with others. If we don't feel accepted, life can feel very difficult. Because of this fact of life, we have a strong desire to be accepted. Being accepted feels good. Being an outcast feels bad.
Make the decision that is best for you
When you are pressured by others to do something, if you want to make the best decision for you, you must consider the benefits and costs to each option. Benefits may include acceptance, friendships, a temporary rush. Costs may include a criminal record, punishment from your parents, hurt feelings, damage to your health, damage to your future. For most people, it's easier to focus on the immediate benefits than on the long term costs, especially when others are encouraging you to go for the immediate benefits. But in order to ensure a more enjoyable path through life, you must consider the costs, weight the two sides and make the best decision for you.
Why people pressure others
If friends are only your friends as long as you do what they want, maybe they aren't friends at all. Maybe they're more selfish than giving. More careless than caring. Maybe they know what they're doing is a bad choice, and they need someone else to do it too, in order to feel comfortable with their decision. In terms of drugs, once you make a choice to use, you may find that you have become addicted and can't stop. If you can't stop, wouldn't you feel better about yourself if others did it with you regardless of how it effects their health? We all like to feel like we make the right decisions. The more people that make the same decisions we make, the more confident we are with our decisions. This is one of the reasons why people pressure others to do things that are not good for them.
How to say "No"
Say it with confidence. If you act like you're unsure, they will continue to pressure you. If you look them in the eye, say it clearly, to the point, without flinching like George Clooney, they should get the picture. Here's some examples...
· No.
· No thanks.
· I'm not into that.
· I don't feel like it.
· I'm OK. Thanks anyway.
· No, I don't like the taste.
· It doesn't suit me.
· No, I don't need it.
· No, I don't think that's cool.
· No, I've killed enough brain cells playing the
X Box. Thank you.
· I'd rather masturbate.
· I like my lungs the way they are.
· No, If I do that, I'll lose my kingdom and turn back into a frog.
· No, I'll jeopardize my campaign to become the next President of the United States.
· No, that doesn't go with my eyeliner.
· Drugs are not allowed in the shrine.


]]> Tue, 09 Sep 2003 01:48:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10864 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10577 Is it important to make people realize all the time that where they are wrong and what wrong they are doing? In fact what hapens when you get them realize about their mistakes they start getting corner from you. This is because person usually avoid doing this.
what you feel???
]]> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:54:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10577 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10527 HIV/AIDS: A Threat to Sustainable Development in the Developing Countries
Farhad Ali

In every time in the history of mankind, there came a problem that threatened the life, the existence of human beings. It challenged the world community; it confronted with them, it said fight me if you can. It slowly spread with deep roots across the globe regardless of cast, creeds; it crossed all the boarders and reached all the continents.
Suddenly, it made its home in the blood of Homo sapiens. HIV (Human Immune Deficiency Virus) causing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is now prevalent and appearing as more a social problem rather than a clinical problem in the world as a whole. Currently, there are around 42 million people living with the deadly virus across the globe. Out of these people, 38.6 million are adults. Around 5 million people are reported to be newly infected in the year 2002, out of this figure 4.2 million are adults and 2 million are woman. In the year 2002, 3.1 million AIDS deaths have been reported in the world.
HIV/AIDS is believed to be a threat to the sustainable development worldwide. Sustainable development means development with sustainability of all natural and artificial resources exploited for the cause of development. The basic consideration of conservation of these resources for the generations to come is kept in the mind while framing the policies. The future generations could harvest at least as much as the present generations are harvesting. The human resource is thought to be the most important resource because it is the only resource that harvest rests all the resources, which is at greater risk in present scenario of HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The population worldwide is increasing and the resources are shrinking, it is doubtful to state the present process of development as a sustainable development.
There are several indigenous technologies of specific regions across the globe. These indigenous technologies are confined to the places of origin and there is no documentation of these technologies. Since these are known to the local people only and are transferred from one generation to another generations, the spread of HIV/AIDS in these communities will be a cause of extinction of these technologies. It is reported that HIV is spreading from urban areas to rural areas and also within the specified location because of its nature of transmission. The prevalence of STIs in specific areas makes people more vulnerable to HIV infection.
It is also reported that the age of first intercourse has comedown, which is again a dangerous sign in the absence of knowledge of safer sex. The sexually active group that is 15-49 years, which is considered to be productive age group for any community or country. The people of this age group are more sexually active and thus more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.
Once a person gets infection, he /she needs special attention to pay to his or her health as HIV drains out his or her immunity to fight the disease and become prone to many infections which are so common in nature. In such condition he or she would not be able to work properly and take the burden of the work. Small ailments will become the regular visitors of his or her body. The person’s absence will rise at his work place and if one is a technical person at the work place, the work will definitely suffer and the productivity would come down which is the key of survival of any industry in the present scenario of WTO. In case of prevalence of infection of infection in labors force, the production is again at risk since the replacement of the labor would not be the solution as how many of the labors can be replaced. The situation is going to be worse in the developing country where mechanization is still to go a long way. The labor-intensive technologies are prevalent in most of the developing and underdeveloped countries of South East Asia. In these countries the production system would be worst affected. The countries like China and India, where rice is the staple food crop and grown in the major portion of the cultivated agricultural land, may face a acute shortage of labor since rice is a transplanted crop and requires hand roping. The transplanting is done by migrant labor force who remain outside their home place and the studies reveal that such labor forces are sexually active outside their homes and have multiple sexual partners. The prevalence of STIs make them more vulnerable to HIV infection. Increase in the reactive population would adversely affect rice production system in these countries. This will be a major concern for these countries because of the connection between malnutrition, hunger, famine and HIV/AIDS. The population dynamics and the role-play in these societies would also change as widows, grand parents and children suddenly take on roles they are unprepared for. Various kinds of constraints would be created in the farming system such as time and energy limitations created by HIV/AIDS provoked shortage.
HIV/AIDS created havoc could easily be imagined in the different components of the business system when supporting organs like finance, marketing, and logistics, HR, RD and administration would experience frequent absence of staff and organization would have to suffer as the cost of training of technical man power which has already incurred would not give the desired returns expected earlier. Again cost of medication and compensation against the death of the staff would add on the burden of the organization. Recruiting new individuals, training them would again a constraint for the organizations under the global business recession. Moreover the organizations would not be able to get benefited with its experienced staff. HIV/AIDS created shortage of experienced technical manpower may change the shape of business system where an individual may have to have double or triple specialization to meet the working requirements of the organizations. Say a marketing man has to acquaint himself with the operations in finance or HR or say the logistics. This will lead to the shortage of experts in a specified field. The government expenses would have to increase on medication, awareness, hospitals, care and support of the positive people and other infrastructure development and this would lead to less allocation of funds towards other developmental activities. Ironically the population would keep on growing, as the infected population does not die soon after infection, as it takes years together. A sever resource crunch is likely to be experienced in these countries under this scenario.
So it is our responsibility as an individual and as a community, to change our life style and behavior so that we can control the spread of HIV/AIDS. We have to act now, not wait till HIV infect one of us, our friends, our community, our love ones, our colleagues or the whole community. We have to act now before this monster destroys us and we left with nothing to pass on to our future generations.
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South Africa
The report draws broader conclusions about other sub-Saharan African countries through its case study of South Africa. In the absence of the AIDS epidemic, South Africa may have experienced "modest but accelerating growth of per capita income," the report says (Reuters, 7/23). With an estimated 25% of South Africans ages 15 to 49 currently HIV-positive, the report estimates that by 2050 the per capita income per family will be half the amount it was in 1990, dropping to $12,901, according to the Globe (Boston Globe, 7/24). This suggests that South Africa's economy could face collapse within several generations "unless it combats its AIDS epidemic more urgently," according to a World Bank release (World Bank release, 7/24). In about 90 years, South Africa's per capita GDP could suffer a 50% decline, according to Shanta Devarajan, a report co-author and World Bank economist (Agence France-Presse, 7/23). Devarajan has presented the report to technicians in several government departments in the country (Reuters, 7/24).

Reaction
South Africa, which has become a "symbol for inaction on HIV/AIDS," must "bolster spending on public education" and President Thabo Mbeki, who "continues to be evasive about" the disease, must "throw his weight fully behind efforts to educate his citizens and change their behavior, efforts which have paid dividends in countries like Uganda," according to a Financial Times editorial (Financial Times, 7/24). "This report confirms how important it is for policy makers to act swiftly and effectively to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to treat those with the disease," Clive Bell, a study co-author and a World Bank research fellow, said, adding, "Keeping infected people alive and well ... so they can continue to live productive lives and take care of the next generation, is not only the compassionate thing to do, but it is also vital for a country's long-term economic future" (Reuters, 7/23). Prabhat Jha, director of the Centre for Global Health Research at the University of the Toronto, said that the report "strikes me as missing the point," because regardless of the economic impact of the disease, "[w]e need to act because it is killing millions of people" (Boston Globe, 7/24).

]]> Sat, 02 Aug 2003 10:35:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10309 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10234 Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:51:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10234 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10224 Masturbation can be used as atoll to prevent the spread of the deadly virus and frequent ejaculation can prevent the prostrate cancer.]]> Mon, 28 Jul 2003 14:46:00 EDT http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10224 25.6 85.116666725.685.1166667 http://farhadali.tigblog.org/post/10213 This what prevails in our society? The people who need our support and cooperation to fight for the life are marginalized in every walk of life.

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