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Someone asked the admin to differentiate between PEP and PrEP. This was the admin’s response: PEP stands for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, whereas PrEP stands for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. In medical terms, "post" means after and "pre" means before. To illustrate the difference, consider PEP as an emergency contraceptive, taken after unprotected s*x to prevent pregnancy. Similarly, PEP is taken after unprotected s*x with someone whose HIV status is unknown to prevent HIV infection. In contrast, PrEP is comparable to family planning measures, such as birth control pills or injections like Depo-Provera, taken before engaging in unprotected s*x to prevent pregnancy. PrEP medications or injections are primarily taken by individuals at higher risk of contracting HIV, including those with HIV-positive partners, intravenous drug users who share needles, and s*x workers before engaging in high-risk activities.

ENDOMETRIOSIS: LADIES GATHER HERE
Endometriosis happens when the tissue that lines the inside of the uterus grows outside it. This tissue acts the same way that the tissue inside the uterus does during your period: It will break apart and bleed at the end of the cycle. But this blood has nowhere to go. Surrounding areas may become inflamed or swollen. It may also form scars. Endometriosis is most common on your ovaries but other organs like the urinary bladder and the large intestines may also be affected.

What are the symptoms of Endometriosis?
You might not notice any symptoms. When you have them, they can include: back pain during your period, severe menstrual cramps, pain when pooping or peeing, especially during your period, unusual or heavy bleeding during periods,
blood in your stool or urine, diarrhoea or constipation, painful s*x, fatigue that won’t go away, and difficulties getting pregnant.

What causes Endometriosis?
We don’t know for sure what causes endometriosis. Some think menstrual blood that contains cells from the inner lining of the uterus may pass back through your fallopian tubes and into your pelvis, where the cells stick to your organs. This is called reverse (retrograde) menstruation. Genes could also play a role. If your mother or sister has endometriosis, you’re more likely to get it. It has been observed shown that it tends to get worse from one generation to the next. Some women with endometriosis also have immune system disorders. But the relationship with immune system disorders is still not clear.

What are the complications of Endometriosis?
Severe endometriosis pain can affect your quality of life. Some women struggle with anxiety or depression. Almost 40% of women who have difficulties getting pregnant have endometriosis. It has been observed that inflammation damages the s***m or egg or makes it harder for them to move. Or scars might block your fallopian tubes that is why in some cases surgery may boost your fertility. It may also raise your risk of ovarian cancer or another cancer called endometriosis-associated adenocarcinoma.

How is Endometriosis diagnosed?
After taking a careful history your doctor will examine you looking for masses and characteristic abnormalities around your uterus. He/she will order a full blood could because you have might have been losing a lot of blood. Then your doctor will send you for imaging (could be ultrasound, or CT scan or MRI depending on what you can afford). To be absolutely sure your doctor will order a laparoscopy (here they make a small hole on your abdomen and push in a small camera for direct visualisation) and biopsy.

How is Endometriosis Treated?
Endometriosis has no cure but medical treatment is available and depending on severity your doctor may consider taking you for surgery. Whatever the case, if you suspect you could have endometriosis do not delay to see your doctor. Call us +260 770031234 or visit your nearest hospital.
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Something for the weekend

Life lessons Sunday

By Innocent Kalaluka

150 years from now, none of us reading this post today will be alive. 70 percent to 100 percent of everything we are fighting over right now will be totally forgotten. Underline the word, TOTALLY.

If we go back memory lane to 150 years before us, that will be 1872, none of those that carried the world on their heads then are alive today. Almost all of us reading this will find it difficult to picture anybody's face of that era.

Pause for a while and imagine how some of them betrayed their relatives and sold them as slaves for a piece of mirror. Some killed family members just for a piece of land or tubers of yam or cowries or for a pinch of salt. Where is the yam, cowries, mirror, or salt that they were using to brag? It may sound funny to us now, but that is how silly we humans are sometimes, especially when it comes to power or trying to be relevant.

I remember those days in my secondary school, how some people fought and did so many unimaginable things just to have their names shortlisted among those to be made school Prefects. Ordinary school Prefects o! It is just about 18 years since I left secondary school, nobody in that school right now remembers that I even schooled there despite my popularity then. Now, imagine what happens after 150 years?

Even when you claim the internet age will preserve your memory, take Michael Jackson as an example. Michael Jackson died in 2009, that was just 13 years ago. Imagine the influence Michael Jackson had all over the world when he was alive. Gosh, he was like a god. How many young people of today remember him with awe, that is if they even know him? In 150 years to come, his name, when mentioned, will not ring any bell to a lot of people. This is even because he was popular, imagine the majority of people who will never be known worldwide like him?

Let us take life easy, nobody will get out of this world alive. . . The land you are fighting and ready to kill for, somebody left that land, the person is dead, rotten, and forgotten. That will also be your fate. In 150 years to come, none of the vehicles or phones we are using today to brag will be relevant. Biko, take life easy!

Let love lead. Be genuinely happy for each other. No malice, no backbiting. No jealousy. No comparison. It is not a competition. At the end of the day, we all have the same destiny in the grave. It is just a question of who gets there first, but surely we will all go there.
https://zambiareports.news/2022/07/17/life-lessons-sunday-by-innocent-kalaluka/

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