what are the ineffectiveness of getting immunisation in preventing HIV?
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There is no reliable vaccine against HIV\nAll vaccines against HIV are experimental\nSee some results at\nhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002576494_hivvaccine22m.html
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By ***** I assume unprotected sex. A girl can get AIDS (an infection caused by HIV - a virus called Human Immuno Defficiency Virus) from a person who is alredy infected. If the partner is not HIV +ve, then there's no question of getting AIDS from him/her. To get AIDS (HIV), partner has to be HIV +ve.\nWith HIV +ve partner, you can't indulge in such activities which involve transfer of fluids of any kind. mere hugging, chatting, talking, playing, exchanging clothes doesn't transfer any infection.\nAnd this applies to any partner whether man to man, woman to woman, man to woman. (Important)\nMost common ways of transferring HIV are:\nBlood transfusion\nPricking with the needles infected with HIV\nUnprotected Sex with HIV +ve partner\n\nPreventive Measure:\n1. Get screend for HIV, thats how we can contribute towards HIV free generation\n2. Transfusion of screend blood\n3. Use of Condoms during sex\n4. Use of sealed disposable syringes/razors/knives\nhope it helps
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The only way for you to get hiv is through the following:\n\n1. Sexual contact with an infected person\n2. Sharing of injection needles\n3. Blood transfusion\n\nThere is very little or no chance of you getting hiv from the bite of an hiv-infected person. What you may get, however, is rabies if he has the rabies virus.
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Causes: Unprotected sex with someone who's HIV positive, Blood transfusion with HIV Positive blood, sharing drug needles with an HIV positive person.\n\nEffects: Potential for Serious illness, compromised immune system, death due to complications from such illnesses. Also, effects include shame, fear, isolation, depression, and hesitancy to have children for fear of passing on the disease.
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Well, I think if you're still here, then somebody's doing something right, but that's really a question you should be asking a doctor, doll.\nUnfortunately, I am not familiar with the specifics of HIV or AIDS.  What I do know is that HIV can lead to AIDS, which stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.\nA deficient immune system is what would keep you from getting better if you did get sick, and would obviously be more likely to result in death.\nSo aside from the HIV-AIDS link there, I don't know what to tell you except ask a doc.
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First of all, nobody "gets" AIDS.  However, one can "get" HIV which my progress to AIDS.\n\nNo.  HIV does not spontaneously appear simply by masturbating.  You can not give yourself HIV much in the same way you can't give yourself the flu, or a cold.  The virus must come from somewhere else.\n\nAnd, mutual masturbation (that is, masturbating with someone else) with no exchange of bodily fluids *is* considered one of the safest sexual practices.
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the government and ngos have been spreading awareness about aids through the medium of television and news paper. but then they don't reach the poor and illiterate. for that volunteers are needed who can go from door to door and explain the use of condoms and how to protect one from aids.\n\nbut its not true that this problem is restricted only to slum dwellers. its present even in the upper classes.\nthis problem is wide spread....\nwe have to take time out to help aids affected people and spread awareness
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Health workers who handle the body fluids of AIDS victims are at risk. Also, prior to blood screening for the virus, many people contracted the disease through transfusions. Drinking infected mother’s breast milk can infect a baby. \n\nAlong with health workers, infants, and those contracting HIV through transfusions, are many women and children caught up in many kinds of sexual abuse and slavery.
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first off i would like to say b4 u get AIDS u get HIV. u can have HIV for YEARS (ova a decade for some ppl) and the scary thing is HIV has NO SYMPTOMS. understand that clearly, the person will look and feel healthy but they are infectious, ie. during this asymtomatic phase they can pass on the virus. the HIV will develop into AIDS which can manifest in many ways.. loss of weight, repetitive infections (most common being THRUSH [vaginal and oral types]).\nthe reason is that when sumone has full blown AIDS they have a very weakened immune system and therefore are sitting ducks for infections. diseases u would ordinarily fight off with ease become life threatning. so as for symtoms, u will display the symptoms of the disease u have got at that moment. AIDS kills u because it renders u too weak to fight other diseases so AIDS patients will die because of TB, pneumonia and other opportunistic infections.\n\nHIV/AIDS IS A KILLER. for real. IT HAS NO CURE. the message of safe sex, EVERYTIME, is not there to bother its to protect. all it takes is one time without a rubber. remember u CANNOT TELL BY LOOKING if someone has HIV. and dont rely on jus asking and expecting an honest answer... ppl lie or they themselves may not know they have it... talk is cheap. i have personally seen AIDS patients, they die slowly. they end up being walking skeletons, its not pretty.\n\nfor anyone with misconceptions about HIV/AIDS, 1.get informed FROM A RELIABLE SOURCE for the cold facts\n2.condomise ALWAYS... be smart, stay safe...
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"Consistent use of condoms provides protection from HIV. The level of protection approximates 87%, with a range depending upon the incidence among condom nonusers. Thus, the condom's efficacy at reducing heterosexual transmission may be comparable to or slightly lower than its effectiveness at preventing pregnancy." \n\n" the chance that HIV will be transmitted during a single unprotected sexual act is much lower -- ranging from 1 chance in 500 for vaginal sex to 3 chances in 100 for anal sex -- than the risk that a single act of unprotected vaginal sex will lead to pregnancy. "\n\nAlso;\n\n"The use of a spermacide can make sex with condoms even safer. Laboratory studies have shown that one spermacide, nonoxynol-9, effectively kills all of the HIV that is present in a condom."
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Each of these diseases is a virus, which means you are NEVER cured.  Hepatitis A is the only one that has a vaccination, but it is only effective if received before the initial exposure to the virus.  To know whether or not you have immunity to Hep A from the vaccination is to do a simple blood test for Hep A antibody titer.  A titer means the test will see how many antibodies you have, and will determine if you have enough or if you need a booster shot.
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First off, nobody "gets" AIDS.  One "gets" HIV which then *MAY* progress to AIDS.\n\nHIV dies almost immediately upon being exposed to air.  It can not live for very long at all outside the body--mere seconds at the most.  Theoretically, one can contract HIV from a toilet seat.  However, a very specific set of circumstances would have had to occur.  A person who has HIV bled or otherwise left on this hypothetical toilet seat some amount of HIV-infected fluid.  Then, you would have to *IMMEDIATELY* sit down on the toilet seat and you would also need to have placed a cut or other opening into your body directly on the blood or other fluid.  Then, you MIGHT contract HIV that way.  But who sits down on bloody toilet seat?\n\nAs far as convincing your mother that touching something will not give her HIV try this tactic:  If HIV *was* spread through touching items, many, many more people would have it.  In fact, even she might have it *IF* it were spread so easily since, chances are, she's either come in contact with HIV.  Or someone she's come in contact with has contact with someone with HIV.  Or someone that person has come in contact with has come in....  Well, you get the idea.
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They say it lasts anywhere from a few months to 6 years.  It depends on your immune system which is particular to each individual.  \nSome vaccines don't take at all, because your body never produced antibodies. \n\nIf it's been since childhood and you absolutely need to get one, go ahead, but if you don't need it, don't get it.\nIn my opinion, the risks sometimes outweigh the supposed benefits.\n\nIf you have never had risky sex, been a drug user, etc. then you could have gotten some type of hepatitis in your blood stream from the vaccine which will never become a full blown illness.\n\nSome people have HIV forever and it never turns into AIDS, they never die from it.\nThe immune system is a very complex thing, and it is unique to each individual.
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we don't.\n\nDo NOT get vaccinated.\n\nA vaccinated person is MORE likely to get a disease than  a non-vaccinated person. The whole theory of vaccination is flawed. It causes a weakening of the immune system thus making those who are innoculated more susceptible to disease.\nThere are so many awful side effects to vaccination that it should be considered extremely dangerous.\nJust sit back and think for a while.\nIs there any sense in injecting a disease directly into your body.\nWe have been subjected to an awful mind control program to enable the drug manufacturers to make a fortune.\n\nThe Vaccination Hoax\nhttp://www.whale.to/b/hoax1.html\n\n\nIf you go to the vaccination liberation web page, at\nhttp://www.vaclib.org/exemption.htm\nYou will find all the forms necessary to provide exemption for your child.\n\nIf you want to study the history of vaccination, see\nhttp://dgwa1.fortunecity.com/body/vaccination.html
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Nope, if you're both HIV / AIDS negative there is a 0 chance you'll get infected... unless you involve a monkey somehow... or an infected person...
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This is a pretty loaded question.  Regardless of what you teach, people can contract HIV.  In fact, the numbers in Africa are increasing among married women, who get it from their husbands who sleep with other women.  The same is common in India, where husband truck drivers contract HIV from prostitutes while waiting at truck stops (for days at a time in some places, like on the Bangladeshi border).\n\nCondoms are the most effective way (other than not having sex at all--whether single or married) to deal with HIV.  When you teach people to practice safe sex, you're gearing them with an important safety measure they'll carry with them for the rest of their lives.  Another way to fight AIDS is to try to deal with the devastating poverty that leads to the horrendous economic situations causing women to turn to prostitution, and desparation that causes the population to engage in risky behavior (as is the case in Russia, where HIV increased dramatically after the fall of communism and the collapse of the Soviet economy--widespread desperation led to a huge increase in recreational drug use--along with the unsafe practice of sharing needles).\n\nThe problem is alot more complicated than premarital sex, which, if practiced safely (condom, birth control, and STD testing), most often does not result in HIV, pregnancy, or other STDs for that matter.
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There are many reasons why an AIDS vaccine is difficult to develop.  Here is an admittedly incomplete list:\n\n1. HIV is highly mutable - it can change its genomic RNA sequence (altering its protein sequence) and the ability of our body to recognize the infection.  As such, knowing which sequence to choose for a vaccine is very difficult.  \n\n2. The virus has evolved to adapt to localized populations, resulting in numerous "clades" found world-wide.  Therefore, it may be impossible to generate one vaccine that will target all clades and multiple clade-specific vaccines will be required.\n\n3. Scientists do not understand how most vaccines work, particularly those against viral infections.  The vaccines in use today were mainly identified based on trial and error and mainly generate antibody responses - not T cell responses.  While this single arm of the immune response seems to be protective against most bacterial infections (and some viral diseases), it does not appear to be protective against HIV.  The common approaches used against other pathogens have failed.  Therefore, generation of an HIV vaccine requires us to learn a lot more about vaccine design in general.\n\n4. While there are rare people who appear to be resistant to HIV infection or can survive for many years without developing symptoms of AIDS, scientists do not yet understand what type of immune response is protective against HIV.  Therefore, there is no "gold standard" for a vaccine to try to mimic.\n\n5. There is no small animal model of HIV infection.  The closest model system for testing potential HIV vaccines is to use monkeys.  This is difficult (scientifically and ethically), time-consuming, and very expensive - and there is still debate as to how well this system recapitulates human disease.  Therefore, the process is very slow from conception to testing of a new vaccine candidate.\n\n6. Along this line, current medical ethics (as well as cost, etc.) prevent doctors from testing unproven vaccine candidates directly on humans, as might have occured 100 years ago, for fear of unanticipated side effects ("do no harm").  Before any vaccine is tested in people, it must pass numerous preliminary stages using animals and small-scale (Phase I) trials in humans before any test of vaccine efficacy (requiring a large population) is begun.\n\nDon't loose hope - there are several good HIV vaccine candidates in the pipeline and pharmaceutical companies (i.e. Aventis Pasteur, Merck) are begining to team up to combine their approaches with some recent success.