what can i do to get invovled with stopping the spread of aids?
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It's awesome that you want to get involved!\n\nLook in your phone book and find a local AIDS service organization.  Call them up and tell them you want to volunteer.  It's the best thing anyone can do to help spread HIV awareness & prevention.\n\nMost HIV/AIDS agencies will have lots of volunteer opportunities for teens and adults.  They may have you work with younger people, educating them on how to stay safe.\n\nYou can also help stop the spread of HIV by getting good resources & facts from reliable sources & educating your friends & family.\n\nI've been working in the HIV education field for 21 years  & it's a really rewarding job!\n\nGood luck!
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You knew your Mother wasn't very clean, so you should have worn a condum.  The only cure for aids is death.  Luckily, a butt head that would ask this stupid a question shouldn't much mind dying.
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Myth & Reality of HIV AIDS (Myth is nothing but perception)\n\nMYTH: HIV or AIDS can be cured.\n\nREALITY: To date, there is no cure for HIV or AIDS and there are no vaccines to prevent HIV infection.\n\nMYTH: HIV/AIDS is a gay disease.\n\nREALITY: Anyone is susceptible to HIV/AIDS, regardless of their sexual orientation. Everyone is potentially at risk of getting HIV if they share needles or practice unsafe sex. Worldwide, HIV is spread most often through heterosexual contact.\n\nMYTH: You can get HIV from breathing the air around an HIV-infected person or from hugging or holding hands with an HIV-infected person.\n\nREALITY: HIV cannot be transmitted through:\n• toilet seats or door-knob handles\n• touching, hugging, holding hands, or cheek kissing with an HIV-infected person.\n• sharing eating utensils with an HIV-infected person.\n• mosquito bites.\nHIV is transmitted through contact with an HIV-positive person’s infected body fluids, such as semen, pre-ejaculate fluid, vaginal fluids, blood, or breast milk. HIV can also be transmitted through needles used for injecting drugs, tattooing or body piercing.\n\nMYTH: I can get HIV by sharing exercise equipment or playing sports with an HIV-positive person.\n\nREALITY: Contact with sweat or tears has never been shown to result in transmission of HIV.\n\nMYTH: You can get HIV by kissing an HIV-infected person.\n\nREALITY: Casual contact through closed-mouth or “social” kissing is not a risk for transmission of HIV. There is a theoretical potential for contact with blood during “French” kissing or open-mouthed kissing, but no cases have been attributed to any kind of kissing.\n\nMYTH: You cannot get HIV if you are using birth control methods like diaphragms, cervical caps, sponges, spermicides, DepoProvera, Norplant, or the Pill.\n\nREALITY: These birth control methods do not prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) such as HIV. They only aim to prevent pregnancy. The surest way to prevent both pregnancy and an STD infections is through abstinence. One way people who are sexually active may prevent pregnancy and STD infection is to use a condom in combination with another form of birth control, such as a diaphragm, cervical cap, sponge, spermicide, DepoProvera, Norplant, or the Pill. Birth control products containing the spermicide nonoxynol-9 (found in most contraceptive creams, gels, suppositories, foams, films and sponges) help to prevent pregnancy but may increase the risk of HIV.\n\nMYTH: I can’t have more than one sexually transmitted disease (STD) at a time.\n\nREALITY: A person can be infected with more than one STD. A person with an untreated STD may also be 6-10 times more likely to pass on or acquire HIV during sex. Risk for infection increases 10 to 300-fold in the presence of a genital ulcer, such as occurs in syphilis or genital herpes.\n\nMYTH: There is so such thing as safer sex.\n\nREALITY: Safer sex is sexual activity without penetration, or sex with a latex condom or a latex barrier (in the case of oral sex). Although safer sex can substantially reduce the sexual transmission of an STD like HIV, sexual abstinence is the surest way to prevent the sexual transmission of an STD, including HIV.\n\nMYTH: Since I only have oral sex, I’m not at risk for HIV/AIDS.\n\nREALITY: While oral sex is of lower risk than other forms of sex, you can get HIV by having oral sex with a man or a woman. It is important to use a latex barrier during oral, vaginal, or anal sex.\n\nMYTH: I would know if a loved one or I had HIV.\n\nREALITY: A person with HIV may not show any symptoms for many years. Since HIV affects each person differently, many people with HIV can look and feel healthy for years. The only sure way to know is to get tested.\n\nMYTH: Getting tested for HIV is pointless.\n\nREALITY: Knowing if you are HIV-positive will allow you to seek early treatment that can help you stay healthy longer and enable you not to pass on the vir
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The problem lies with the culture of the areas.  They don't realize that sex spreads HIV.  In fact its thought that the only way to get rid of the disease is to have sex with a virgin.  Its a sad world we live in indeed.  Also note that they are used to poor hygiene.  This is a leading problem.  I'm not saying everyone over there is like that, but some people is all it takes.    On a side note, the fact that we aren't exposed to the viral epidemics (affects our tolerance and our immune systems ability to cope with the disease) has a small part to play as well.
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There are several alternative treatments that have been yielding encouraging evidence in controlling the virus.\n\nYou may visit the source website below for further description of these.
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No.  HIV and AIDS do not care anything about the economic status of the person or country.\n\nFor example, Magic Johnson has HIV.  And he is wealthy.  The US has a fairly large population of HIV-infected persons and is one of the wealthiest countries in the world.\n\nNo, what will help ease the spread of HIV (and AIDS) is education about the virus and the disease.  It's in the poorest countries that this type of education is the worst.\n\nAs far as eradicating AIDS, the only thing that will do that at this point is a vaccine.
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sexa nd how it leads 2 aids, sex first tho, tell about aids wen a lil bit older
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do research. fiind out what kind of treatments they have out there for people with hiv/aids.\n\nthis is something you will have for the rest of you life so do the research before you move out threre and find out if its the right move for you
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Unfortunately you CANNOT cure HIV, however you CAN suppress it from becoming full-blown AIDS indefinately.  \nThe only way to do this is by going to the doctor often, getting the right antiviral meds (VERY expensive), the proper vaccines against other infections, and avoiding high risk for infection - avoid sick people, wash hands often, avoid hospitals if possible, cook food thoroughly, take care of yourself physically.\n\n"Surviving HIV requires a substantial amount of social support, education, and hope.  Quality medical care is essential from experienced HIV specialists as is a person's will to live, and willingness to become their own best advocate.  This often means that the person living with HIV/AIDS must learn or be able to work with his medical providers as a partner, doing his or her part to take the medications as prescribed, reduce the possibility of becoming re-infected with more HIV, but also to ask questions, and report any problems with taking medications and/or side effects." - http://www.guardianhealth.org/hiv.htm\n\nI'm betting Magic is taking all precautions to follow all these measures.  However, he is just as susceptible as anyone else to problems.  He would not be the first person to beat the odds, and some of those that have are regular, everyday people.
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i live in south africa, that willhelp very much!!!  But our government cant even get antiretroviral drugs to help people with aids to them, how will they get a vaccine to them?  Our health minister promotes the eating of garlic as a cure against aids and our former vice president said that if you showered after having sex you reduce your chances of getting aids.  Heaven help my country
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we cant....it is a monstrous task, and one that will not be eradicated until a cure is found.  Most of these people do not fully understand what aids is, or don't even know it exist, or don't believe it is real.  I was watching a discovery channel presentation and they asked this African woman if she believed she could get aids, her response, "Only bad people get aids"
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It may be the boldest answer you will get in this forum, but I have AIDS. To truely put a face to this epidemic I would be honored to send you a digital photograph of myself that you can use in your educational campaign. If interested just let me know. Email to cruiserinthecity@yahoo.com and put AIDSPHOTO as the subject. Serious inquiries only please. Thank you.
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Don't treat them like the Plague.  Be supportive and listen to their fears.  If they're full blown status, run errands for them if they're too weak, cook them meals, read the Bible with them to give them peace.\n\nIf they're just HIV stage, don't fret, they'll be healthy for years if they take care of themselves.  \n\nGood luck and pray.
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your question sound some how. well as a married couples you\nhave to educate yourself about the HIV/aids, both of you know already that there is HIV/aids all the country, even if your husband or\nthe wife is a traveller, both of you have to trust yourself and both you should know that the best way to protect yourself from HIV/aids is condoms, there is know need the husband or the wife remind each other because it can break\nmarraiage if each other knew that one of them having affair outside.
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The only 'cure' for HIV / AIDS is to NOT get it. Meds help greatly to extend life, but HIV is a death sentence down the road...on the other hand, we are all going to die some day. If you want to help, there are many local, state, and national organizations to volunteer to. Good luck and it is nice to see a caring person here.
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use a condom and don't hit on straight men and, 1. Straight people like me will not have a problem with you, 2. Your chances for getting AIDS will severely drop, if you already have AIDS, you got some choices: 1. go to cuba, theyll set you on an island so that you do not infect the other populaste, and they fund you for free, 2. DON"T HAVE SEX!!! duh, what happens if you got into bed with a horny Bi? then it would spread pretty fast... the best I think would be to find the guy that gave you AIDS and beat his f**king face to a pulp for infecting you and countless others.
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best i suggest, u gather some money for doctor\n\na wrong peek can land u with aids