HIV awareness is not about the person living with HIV but really the attitudinal barriers created by a society that prevents a person to participate fully and effectively in the society on equal terms with a person without HIV. People living with HIV have the same rights as everybody else to live as equals in society.

Our goal is to create that change of perception on people living with HIV in the society and help them find hope and continue living a fulfilled life., a life of purpose.

Young Malaysians, aged 13 to 29 formed 35.9% of all new AIDS infections in the country due to lack of awareness and their tendency to engage in high-risk behaviours.

!n Malaysia, figures in December 2010 show that there are 91,362 reported cases of HIV infection, and 16,352 AIDS cases in Malaysia. We have already lost 12,943 lives.

Prevention is the best medicine! Never gamble your life with HIV.

Please go to the nearest government hospital for blood test if you have reasons to suspect yourself of HIV infection. Antiretroviral treatment is highly effective. Government had implemented highly subsidized program to help all People Living with HIV/AIDS.

Ignore the warning at your own peril. Delay to seek treatment is strongly discouraged. Early treatment will still prolong your life.

DO NOT let a tiny HIV virus defeats you and all your loved ones. Be smart and wise!

Outdoor activities such as gardening, walking and cycling are not only good for your physical health, but can improve your mental health too. Those who are more active have a greater sense of wellbeing and have lower rates of depression and anxiety. Even simple activities like taking a stroll in the park, or doing some gentle outdoor exercise can have big benefits for our mental wellbeing.

Sometimes, getting the motivation to ‘get up and get out’ can be difficult, especially if you’re depressed or feeling low. But making that effort can give your mind a real boost.

HIV is spread by sexual contact with an infected person, by sharing needles and/or syringes (primarily for drug injection) with someone who is infected, or, less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors. Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth or through breast-feeding after birth.

Some people fear that HIV might be transmitted in other ways; however, no scientific evidence to support any of these fears has been found. If HIV were being transmitted through other routes (such as through air, water, or insects), the pattern of reported AIDS cases would be much different from what has been observed. For example, if mosquitoes could transmit HIV infection, many more young children and preadolescents would have been diagnosed with AIDS.

Myth: that you can get HIV from using an infected person’s utensils
Truth: one cannot under any circumstances get HIV or AIDS from using the utensils, cloths, sheets or toothbrush of an HIV-positive person. In order to contract the virus there must be an exchange of sexual fluids (i.e. semen or vaginal fluid) or blood that transmits the virus from one body to another.

Myth: that HIV and AIDS are diseases that only affect homosexuals and sex workers.
Truth: anyone can get infected with HIV regardless of their age, gender, ethnicity, occupation or class.

Myth: that you can get HIV from kissing, holding hands, sharing the same toilet or room with someone that is HIV positive.
Truth: the saliva in your mouth does not contain enough of the HIV virus to transfer it to another person purely from kissing iii.

Myth: that you can get AIDS from a mosquito bite.
Truth: HIV and AIDS cannot be transmitted through the bites of insects.

Myth: In some parts of Africa it is believed that sex with a virgin can cure AIDS.
Truth: There is no cure for HIV and AIDS.

Myth: That you cannot get HIV from oral sex.
Truth: HIV can be contracted through oral sex, though the possibility is relatively smaller than contracting the virus through sexual intercourse.

Myth: Women that are HIV positive cannot have children without infecting them.
Truth: Without treatment HIV-positive mothers pass HIV to their newborns about 25 percent of the time. However, with modern treatment, this rate has dropped drastically to about 2 percent

Living Greatness is when you truly live
Living Greatness is when you truly give

Live … as if this is your first day
Live … as if this is your last day
Live … as if your life is a miracle
Live … as if you are not going to fail
Live … as if you are destined for greatness

You help others when you give
You inspire others when you live strong
You love others when you show compassion

Live your life with greatness
With … the courage of a lion
With … the braveness of a warrior
With … the gentleness of the wind
With … the compassion of a mother
With … the greatness of the universe

Start Living Greatness today
Living Greatness starts with you

At the UN high-level meeting on AIDS, Ban Ki-moon called for a global commitment to eliminate AIDS by 2020. The UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called for a global commitment to eliminate AIDS by 2020. “That is our goal – zero new infections, zero stigma and zero AIDS-related deaths.”

The summit – from 8 to 10 June – concluded with the adoption of a declaration that by 2015 seeks to double the number of people on antiretroviral (ARV) treatment to 15 million, end mother-to-child transmission of HIV, halve tuberculosis-related deaths in people living with HIV, and increase preventive measures for the “most vulnerable populations”.

More Malaysians were infected with HIV/AIDS via sexual transmission last year, making up 48.5% of the new cases of infections.

This is the first time that unguarded sexual activity has caused more new HIV/AIDS infection cases than drug use through injections.

Statistics from the Malaysian AIDS Council also revealed that homosexual and bisexual transmission cases have shot up last year, from 162 cases to 201.

New cases of HIV/AIDS infections last year numbered at 3,090.

The trend has changed. HIV/AIDS in Malaysia did not spread mostly by needle injections as most of us were made to believe.