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AIDS Kills learn how to protect ®
Ways to protect yourself:
▪ Educate yourself about sexually transmitted diseases (STD)
▪ Abstain from promiscuous sex
▪ Use Protection- Condoms
▪ Be loyal to your partner
▪ Do not share syringes
▪ Get tested & screen blood for HIV before transfusion
▪ If you are a teenager or unmarried, the safest way is not to have sex before marriage.
MAAWS in strving to meet UN Millennium Development Goals: Combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.
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In conjunction with the Islamic Medical Association of North America (IMANA), MAAWS initiated a Pure Drinking Water & Sanitation Project in Bangladesh as part of the Health For Villagers ® Program for Flood Affected Areas.
After the flood in 2007, finding clean drinking water turned to be a catastrophe. Poor sanitation and drinking water cause medical conditions such as dehydration, diarrhea, cholera and waterborne disease.
Another major issue for drinking water is Arsenic. Arsenic-rich rocks contaminate groundwater through which it filters. Cancer of the skin, lungs, urinary bladder, and kidney, as well as other skin changes such as pigmentation changes and thickening (hyperkeratosis) are effects of long-time exposure of arsenic.
Cemented sanitary toilets are also built to keep a hygienic environment. Clean tube wells free of arsenic were built in flood affected areas for villagers. Many villagers were able to drink clean water for the first time of their lives. By providing clean tube wells, they will be to drink clean water all year round.
MAAWS is striving to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals: Ensuring environmental sustainability by reducing the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water.
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MAAWS Bangladesh handed over one container (24,000 kg, 10 kg bags) of rice to the Bangladesh Army at the Barishal Central Distribution Center. The rice was arranged by AKC Commodities of New Jersey, USA and Taj Food Ltd., of Pakistan. The Army distributed the rice directly to villages in Sharonkhola, a much devastated area by the cyclone.
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