5 Important Facts About HIV / AIDS
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September 26, 2012
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WHO launched a number of new AIDS drug users who continue to grow up to many times.
SPREAD OF HIV / AIDS increasingly alarming alone. WHO launched a number of new AIDS drug users who continue to grow up to many times.
To be free of disease, you have to find interesting facts about HIV / AIDS. Among them:
1. HIV does not discriminate
Since the HIV epidemic began 20 years ago, stereotypes circulating in the community about HIV are gay men, drug users and commercial sex workers who get that label. In fact, everyone can get HIV, from old age, young, rich, poor, women, men, and children, and from a variety of professions.
2. Oral sex not as safe as thought
Oral sex is often considered as a way of "safe" sex. In fact, based on research, infected body fluids such as semen and vaginal secretions that contain high concentrations of the HIV virus can enter the bloodstream through the mucous membranes of the mouth.
3. Do not just worry about pregnancy
Many teenagers believe, the only risk of unprotected sex is pregnancy. Therefore dipakailah birth control pills, oral sex and ejaculation outside to prevent pregnancy. In fact, a lot of things to worry about than pregnancy the presence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) such as syphilis, herpes, including HIV that can be life threatening.
4. Sometimes people do not say, and we do not know the real truth
Think of a moment in the above sentence. How many people who admit that they are suffering from HIV / AIDS if asked by his new partner? How many people are recognizing their sexual lives when they are just getting to know someone? How many people really know their HIV status and the health status of the people who were with them before? A statement "My partner does not have HIV" can only be accepted if accompanied by proof test HIV negative. Ask clearly their HIV status and ask them to do the tests as evidence.
5. There is no cure for the killer
Although people with HIV / AIDS (PLWHA) can live longer thanks to antiretroviral drugs, these drugs do not cure. If any of these drugs protect against opportunistic infections is not a "shortcut" of HIV infection. Ot even cause side effects such as diarrhea, excessive fatigue, flushing, nausea and vomiting.
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