AIDS is a dignified topic, and it makes people shudder to mention it. The scale of AIDS epidemic and the number of patients have caused great losses to human life and social economy, which has exceeded any infectious disease in history. No country or region in the world can survive AIDS. More seriously, the global AIDS epidemic is still rising rapidly, especially in southern Africa, Latin America and Asia. The low infection rate among the general population often masks the fact that HIV is spreading rapidly among high-risk groups.
The following is a set of data found on the Internet: In less than 30 years, AIDS has killed 3 1 10,000 people. In 2003 alone, more than 3 million people died of AIDS, and about 5 million people were infected with HIV. In the total population of the world at the end of 2003, it was estimated that 40 million people were infected with HIV or AIDS, of which about 3 million were children. Judging from this set of data, the prevalence and spread of AIDS pose a serious threat to human survival and development. At present, the prevention and treatment of AIDS has become a common concern of all countries in the world.
In order to protect the human rights of more and more HIV-infected people, the United Nations World Health Organization put forward the AIDS prevention and control plan 1 988 at the global summit in 1 month, and designated1every February as World AIDS Day to help countries around the world formulate AIDS prevention and control strategies. At the same time, a publicity theme is determined every year to issue an appeal to pay attention to AIDS. The theme of AIDS Day from 2005 to 2007 is "Stop AIDS and keep your promise".
The epidemic of AIDS has seriously affected people's health and caused the loss of labor force, thus affecting the development of the whole society and economy; The AIDS epidemic has caused a sharp increase in medical expenses and a large number of health resources have been consumed; The AIDS epidemic has led to an increase in the number of poor people, an increase in the gap between the rich and the poor, a large number of orphans, and an increased social burden; The AIDS epidemic has greatly reduced the average life expectancy.
In this way, AIDS is not only a medical problem, but also a social problem.
China's AIDS control focuses on prevention, combining prevention with treatment, and comprehensive treatment. At the same time, we must treat both the symptoms and the root causes. A very important means to control the spread of AIDS is to carry out active health education, health promotion and arm the mind with scientific knowledge. At the same time, create a social environment conducive to AIDS control, advocate social care for AIDS patients, treat AIDS patients equally, respect their rights and reduce their risk of infecting others.
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Poverty problem
Think about it, poverty seems to be a chronic disease that is extremely uncoordinated with social development. 2 1 century is still accompanied by modern social phenomenon, which is listed as the primary global social development issue by the United Nations.
From a global perspective, the social and economic development of human beings has indeed brought great wealth, and the living standard of human beings has been greatly improved. According to statistics, world wealth has increased sevenfold. At the same time, due to unbalanced development and unreasonable distribution, the gap between the rich and the poor in the world is widening day by day, especially between developing countries and developed countries.
Of course, any country has the problem of polarization between the rich and the poor to varying degrees, and developed countries are no exception. Take the richest and most economically developed United States as an example. Although the United States has the most advanced technology in the world and a high standard of living, the polarization between the rich and the poor is the most typical in western developed countries, which has become a social chronic disease that plagues the United States.
Eliminating poverty has always been a lofty goal and ideal for human beings to achieve social justice, equality and justice. In order to achieve this goal and ideal, mankind has declared war on poverty many times. However, until 2 1 century, although the world economy grew year by year and social wealth accumulated continuously, poverty spread all over the world, and poverty eradication became the primary task of international social development.
We are pleased that the International Development Strategy for the Fourth Decade formulated by the United Nations 1990 and the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries in the 1990s adopted by the Conference of the Least Developed Countries held in Paris in the same year have made the sustained economic development and poverty eradication of developing countries the primary objectives of the international development strategy and the priority areas of international cooperation. This is indeed a great progress.
Since the reform and opening up, on the one hand, China has allowed and encouraged some regions and some people to get rich first, on the other hand, it has carried out large-scale poverty alleviation work. However, due to historical and practical reasons, the poverty problem is still quite serious, and it is still an urgent problem to be solved.
In order to further arouse the international community's concern about poverty, publicize and promote the world's poverty eradication work, and mobilize countries to take practical actions to help the poor, the 47th United Nations General Assembly decided to designate 65438+ 10/7 as the World Poverty Eradication Day every year. UNCTAD also fully discussed a series of issues such as opportunities and challenges faced by countries all over the world, especially developing countries, development strategies in the new century, multilateral trading system reform, trade and investment, narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor, South-South cooperation, and strengthening the role of UNCTAD.
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environmental problems
Some experts pointed out that the first 20 years of 2 1 century are the best time for our development, and the progress of science and technology is gradually bringing us new prosperity and wealth. However, technology is a double-edged sword. Without rational guidance and scientific regulation, it will harm us. At present, the environmental problems facing mankind are increasingly prominent, and the foundation on which we depend for survival and development is being seriously threatened, which has become a crisis facing the whole world.
The first is environmental pollution. In order to pursue too much economic value, human beings are directly or indirectly discharging substances or energy that exceed their own purification ability to the environment, thus reducing our environmental quality and adversely affecting our survival and development, ecosystem and property. With the progress of science and technology, environmental pollution is becoming more and more serious, especially in developing countries. Water pollution, air pollution, noise pollution and radioactive pollution are endangering human health and destroying the ecological environment. Environmental pollution control has increasingly become one of the common topics in the world.
The second is the overuse of resources. On July 9, 2002, the World Wide Fund for Nature published a report entitled "Living Earth", predicting that the overall living standard of human beings will decline after 2030, because the current utilization of natural resources exceeds 20% of its renewable capacity. The report pointed out that due to the excessive consumption of human beings, the types of life on earth have decreased by 35% in the past 30 years, of which freshwater organisms have decreased by 54%; The species of marine life has decreased by 35%; Tree species decrease 15%. It can be seen that it is urgent to protect resources for the survival of future generations.
The third is climate change. "Greenhouse effect", global warming and glacier melting have become problems for all mankind to think about. Relevant data show that in the past half century, the growth rate of carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion is almost twice the growth rate of population, which makes the concentration of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, increase by 30% compared with the last industrial period. The phenomenon that the hole in the ozone layer is expanding, glaciers are melting and the global sea level is rising shows that the reality of global warming is constantly sounding an alarm to people all over the world.
The fourth is the energy crisis. Because the traditional fossil energy such as oil and coal, which are widely used at present, are non-renewable resources, the demand for these energy sources is quite large, and the new energy production and supply system has not been established, which has caused a series of energy crisis problems in transportation, finance, industry and commerce. Economists and scientists all over the world generally estimate that by the middle of this century, that is, around 2050, oil resources will be exhausted. What's more, mankind may start a war by grabbing energy.
The fifth is ecological destruction. Climate change, environmental pollution, excessive logging and other phenomena have seriously damaged the original ecological balance of the earth, making the species on the earth less and less, and the number of organisms is also declining sharply. Scientists have found through investigation that the number of many species has been halved. According to the data provided by the Environmental Protection Monitoring Center in Cambridge, England, the number of black rhinoceros has been reduced from 65438+65000 in 0970 to 3 100. The number of African elephants decreased from10.2 million in 1980 to 500,000, while the number of tigers decreased by 95% in the past 100.
Global environmental problems shocked us. Please take action to protect our living environment! Emancipating and developing productive forces, improving comprehensive national strength, promoting diversified economic development and realizing common prosperity should be the good medicine and prescription to eliminate poverty. We are willing to work together for this.
Review of the Open Selection and Competitive Examination for Party and Government Leading Cadres 2009-07- 19.