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HIV/AIDS A sexually transmitted disease. It has million people. In 2000 alone, it killed 3 million. 80% of all cases are in sub-Saharan Africa.

The must vulnerable age group is between 15-25 years.

This is an apt picture of the AIDS prone age bracket. At this stage, many crucial decisions will be made by the teenagers. Some will affect him for the rest of his life or at least for many years to come. One of those decisions he will have to make will be the one to be abstaining from, or indulge in sexual intercourse.

And society will tell him to indulge. That is okay to do. Society will tell him this on television, on radio, in magazines and music, on bill boards.

Society will entice him with it, shove him into it. And dame will curse him if he refuses to indulge in it. Why?

The greater percentage of humanity is sexually undisciplined. And the indiscipline is not seen as indiscipline, but as liberty. Profligate is a norm.

And society seems designed to promote it.

The question of AIDS is greater than the use of condoms to prevent it. True, teenage sex is a reality; harmful sexual practices are present with people of all ages.

But the real question AIDS poses is, what have you done to yourself? What are you doing today, right now, as you are reading this, doing to your self?

AIDS is pandemic because our moral laxity is endemic. It is strong because we are weak. And every day we promote our weakness I every thing we do.

The answer to the AIDS question is not in condoms. For condoms only enhance your lack of self control. And for those of us who have traveled the road of sexual experimentations, it is no news that it is like a vicious cycle.

The answer to AIDS is in the very simple wisdom of antennae. This does not only protect the reproductive health, but promotes psychological health too. But is it feasible?

Difficult, yes. Because the human chemistry makes it so. But impossible? No. Society says it is.

Conclusively, it will take a lot of work, a lot of commitment, a lot of time, the Anti AIDS campaign should be redesigned to promote moral standard.

But most importantly, the individual must decide to change. Without this, all efforts are in vain.