Aids has become one of the most widely known STD's in the world. Making yourself aware of Aids will help you to better understand ways that you can take prevention measures to refrain from transmitting it or passing it onto someone else.
HIV is the virus that causes Aids. HIV can be transmitted through body fluids from a mother's breast milk, blood, and sexual fluid from a person who has been infected.
Doctors have become aware of the different ways that a person can transmit the disease to another person. A mother who is giving birth to a child can transmit the disease without proper medical care. HIV can be transmitted by using needle injections if a person has the disease and another person uses the needle. Health care workers have become more cautious when dealing with patients that are infected with the disease.
At one time people would teach about the ABC approach to Aids. The ABC approach is Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. The ABC approach started loosing it's meaning after people thought that this was the only way to keep from getting Aids, when Aids can be spread by numerous ways. The ABC approach was changed many times to try to help people understand and to educate them on preventive measures.
The main ways that you can contract Aids is through unprotected intercourse by an infected person. People can sometimes misinterpret the meaning of safe sex. The only true safe sex that there is, is abstinence. If you are going to have sex then a condom, if used properly, can help to safe guard you against the transmission.
Injection or transfusions of blood or semen can also transmit HIV. The likely hood of someone contributing Aids due to a blood transfusion or artificially insemination is most unlikely but is still possible. Doctors are doing their best to examine each vial of blood and semen to eliminate the possibility of a HIV transfer.
Oral sex is another way that the Aids virus can be transferred, though it is very unlikely. If someone has oral sex and semen happens to get on a cut then that person is exposing themselves to the possibility of getting the virus.
There is only a small percentage that you can contract HIV from someone by shaking their hand and then the person and you would have to have a cut in order for it to transfer.
The more you understand Aids, the more you can protect yourself and others. Aids prevention and education has become more common in schools around the country. Many teachers and parents are making their children aware too try to keep them safe from contracting the virus.
I would recommend having a HIV test done once a year if you are sexually active and every six months if you have switched sexual partners. HIV can take some time to show up on a blood test and you may need to be tested more than once if you have come in contact with an infected person and think that you might have been infected.
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HIV is the virus that causes Aids. HIV can be transmitted through body fluids from a mother's breast milk, blood, and sexual fluid from a person who has been infected.
Doctors have become aware of the different ways that a person can transmit the disease to another person. A mother who is giving birth to a child can transmit the disease without proper medical care. HIV can be transmitted by using needle injections if a person has the disease and another person uses the needle. Health care workers have become more cautious when dealing with patients that are infected with the disease.
At one time people would teach about the ABC approach to Aids. The ABC approach is Abstinence, Be faithful, and Condoms. The ABC approach started loosing it's meaning after people thought that this was the only way to keep from getting Aids, when Aids can be spread by numerous ways. The ABC approach was changed many times to try to help people understand and to educate them on preventive measures.
The main ways that you can contract Aids is through unprotected intercourse by an infected person. People can sometimes misinterpret the meaning of safe sex. The only true safe sex that there is, is abstinence. If you are going to have sex then a condom, if used properly, can help to safe guard you against the transmission.
Injection or transfusions of blood or semen can also transmit HIV. The likely hood of someone contributing Aids due to a blood transfusion or artificially insemination is most unlikely but is still possible. Doctors are doing their best to examine each vial of blood and semen to eliminate the possibility of a HIV transfer.
Oral sex is another way that the Aids virus can be transferred, though it is very unlikely. If someone has oral sex and semen happens to get on a cut then that person is exposing themselves to the possibility of getting the virus.
There is only a small percentage that you can contract HIV from someone by shaking their hand and then the person and you would have to have a cut in order for it to transfer.
The more you understand Aids, the more you can protect yourself and others. Aids prevention and education has become more common in schools around the country. Many teachers and parents are making their children aware too try to keep them safe from contracting the virus.
I would recommend having a HIV test done once a year if you are sexually active and every six months if you have switched sexual partners. HIV can take some time to show up on a blood test and you may need to be tested more than once if you have come in contact with an infected person and think that you might have been infected.
Resources:
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