What factors increase the risk of contracting AIDS?
From the time the AIDS-causing virus (HIV) enters the body until the onset of AIDS, it may take more than 10 years. During this period, the person is healthy and can continue his work, but there is a possibility of transmission through him to others. It is not clear from a person’s appearance whether he has HIV or not.
How does the HIV virus enter the body?
Sexual contact with an infected person without using a condom
Injecting drugs with contaminated shared equipment.
Transfusion of contaminated blood and blood products
From an infected mother to a baby during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding.
What factors increase the risk of infection?
The number of partners and the frequency of unprotected sexual contact (without using a condom)
The presence of an untreated sexually transmitted disease (sores, discharge or burning of the genital tract can be its symptoms) on one of the two sides.
Causing wounds, scratches and bleeding during sexual contact
Use of substances such as heroin, alcohol, ecstasy (pill X), glass, etc., which disrupts a person’s decision-making power to choose healthy behaviors.
How to protect ourselves?
Avoid unsafe sex.
Stay faithful to your spouse.
Use a condom in sexual relations.
Avoid using drugs or stimulants.
Do not use sharp tools such as razors, tattoo needles, and injection tools… together.
For the prevention of AIDS, those drug users who have not yet been successfully treated should refrain from injecting drugs or, in case of injection, use sterile and non-shared injection devices.
Is there a cure for AIDS?
Currently, there is no definitive treatment to eliminate the virus, however, the available treatments can increase the patient’s life span and improve the quality of life.
Why should we treat patients properly?
The AIDS virus is not transmitted through normal contacts such as shaking hands, hugging, kissing, sneezing and coughing, using shared toilets and bathrooms, using shared dishes and eating utensils, using public swimming pools and insect bites.
Sufferers and patients need the support and sympathy of us and the whole society.
What puts us at risk is our risky behaviors, not living with sick people
Source: Online doctor