Aids Prevention

AIDS Prevention Since many people have the HIV virus or at least heard of it, everybody should know what it is and what it does. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is not spread through kissing, sneezes, sweat, mosquito s, eating utensils and drinking fountains. HIV is spread by having vaginal, anal, or oral sex, sharing needles, and through the contact of body fluids from an infected person. HIV infected people usually look and feel healthy and may not even know that they are infected. Only a blood test can tell if someone is infected with HIV or not. It can take up to 10 years for symptoms to appear and the symptoms are like many common illnesses: swollen glands, coughing, and fevers. It s not who you are, but what you do that puts at risk for HIV. There are many ways to reduce the risk and try to prevent yourself from being infected with HIV. One way to prevent yourself from getting HIV is to not use needles. Many people injects drugs into themselves by means of needles. Drugs are very dangerous, and using needles carries the chance of being infected with HIV from someone else who used the needle. There is a chance of getting HIV from blood transfusions, too, but the hospitals disinfect needles for the safety of their patients.
Although it's not safe to do drugs, if using needles, do not share them with anyone. If you were to let someone else use a needle that has been used already by another person, you are just putting them at risk to be infected. Another way you can be infected by the HIV virus is by vaginal, oral, or anal sex. One way to keep yourself from not getting HIV is abstinence. You can also help prevent
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The transmission of HIV with a condom. Although condoms are not 100% effective, they can be safe to help reduce the risk of giving or receiving HIV to or from your partner. Even if condoms aren't 100% effective, it is a lot better than using nothing. When you use condoms you are respecting your partner and yourself, trying to prevent