I’ve heard it all now, so I’m going to just go with the “no” one. I’m all about self awareness, and I’m going to take no for an answer with the rest of you.
I have had very few people tell me that they have contracted HIV/AIDS, and most of them were well educated, well informed, and had no idea what they were talking about.
Well that makes sense. HIVAIDS is probably one of the most confusing diseases in the world. Thats why the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared it a “silent killer.
The WHO says that there are more than 3 million of them in the world, but there are only about 11,000 officially recognized by the organization as being HIV positive. That makes it one of the rarest diseases in the world. It is a disease that is more prevalent among gay men than heterosexual men. It is also one of the hardest to treat, and it has two forms: the acute and the chronic.
The acute form is more dangerous than the chronic because it can take down a person in a matter of seconds. In other words, it is more of an “immediate threat” to the person’s livelihood. The chronic form lasts longer, although it is less deadly, because it can take hours to show symptoms. People with HIV infected with the chronic form are not the only ones who can get infected.
While that may sound pretty obvious, there are a lot of misconceptions that people have about how HIV and AIDS works. The general public is often led to believe that it is only HIV that infects people, that the virus only infects certain blood types, that only certain strains of the virus infect. This is not the case. It is spread by sexual contact, and it can also infect people who are born with it and don’t know it.
In this case, the idea is more of a strategy than a fact. Infection can be prevented by taking good care of oneself. For example, having sex when you’re young is a good way to avoid catching HIV, since the virus is passed from one person to the next through sex. By the time you get to your late teens, you may have had many sexual partners, so its not like the virus is just sitting in your DNA waiting to infect you.
The problem is we don’t know much about the virus because there are so many myths about it, which makes the disease very difficult to stop. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is the leading cause of death from a single, known infectious agent in the US. That means most of the people who catch it are already dead.
The problem is, because many of us are young, we don’t know who to trust and who to avoid. We are encouraged to tell our parents, our friends, and our sexual partners about this virus when we first start going out. That is so dangerous, though, because many of these people don’t even know the disease exists.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone who is at risk of infection should tell their sexual partner about HIV, so they can keep each other safe. However, as we learned in the movie, AIDS is not a disease that can be treated. It is a virus that can be transmitted from person to person. HIV can be passed on through needles, unprotected sex, and other means.
