How You Can Help Help Fight AIDS

Yes...YOU can play a very important role against HIV and AIDS

AIDS is the most pressing problems faced globally. We can prevent the spread by a very simple process of communication. Communicating to spread awareness. By just educating only one neighbor or friend per week, we can cover a very huge population is a very short span of time.

AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. As the name suggests, AIDS is a syndrome i.e. a combination of many diseases due to failure of the Human Immunity System.

I just want to share a few basic facts, which need to be understood by us first and then need to be shared with others.

What is AIDS?

AIDS stands for "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome". A virus called HIV causes it. It is the late stage of infection with HIV, which damages and ultimately destroys the immune system.

What is HIV?

HIV stands for Human Immune Deficiency Virus. It is the virus that causes AIDS.

What is the difference between being HIV-positive and having AIDS?

Being HIV-positive, means being infected with the virus. It is within the body and is slowly destroying the immune system. However, when the immune system becomes very weak and the body starts developing a number of infections, it is called AIDS. From the time the person has been infected with the virus, it may take anywhere from 5 to 10 years for AIDS to develop.

Is there any way HIV can create itself?

HIV cannot create itself under any circumstances. The virus has to be present in a person's body and then passed on to someone else. HIV does not develop in a person's body on its own accord. It is found only in 'human beings' and can only be 'acquired' from another infected human being.

How is HIV transmitted?

HIV is transmitted in the following ways:

- By unprotected sexual intercourse with a person who is already infected with HIV. This is the most common way of getting HIV.

- By the transfusion of infected blood and blood products.

- By sharing needles contaminated with HIV infected blood.

- By a HIV positive pregnant women to the new born baby. Before, during or just after delivery (through breast feeding).

HIV cannot enter the human body in any other way.

How does one protect oneself from infection?

"Prevention is always better than cure". The only way to protect from this disease is by not sharing needles, not coming in contact with infected blood and having protected sexual intercourse.

Now if we understand these basic 6 questions and spread this information, we will be saving not just one person but the entire family...the entire generation.

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