What will it take for people to realize that hiv/aids is out there?
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Information, education and counselling. Its a huge problem so it requires a huge response which is not forthcoming. But still many things are being done to imform people and i think a large proportion of ppl already knw how to save themselves from it. But since Sex is often hard to resist and condoms are difficult to arrange in the heat of the moment, temptation overrides the desire
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Don't know how urine therapy is going to help the trasnmission of HIV/AIDS. Boosting the immune system is great but aids is a highly specific virus that attacks T-cells and macrophages. Often times the fetus is taken as a forgeign entity and attacked by the mother's own body. By these very same leukocytes. I don't know how likely it is but I would assume the chance is very high for transmission to occur. We can't even cure AIds at this stage in time. How could we isolate the disease in one area of our body and keep it from others. It's not entirely feasible.
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Let's see I would say that cancer is curable now, if detected early. The problem is that many people don't go to the doctor for regular check ups.  In the case of AIDS is caused by a virus. The scientific community knows little about viruses, and the HIV virus is constantly mutating, making it difficult to find something that would stop it.  They might find something that works for a certain strain of a virus but soon that strain will mutate, so the it won't work.  I hope that help you a little to understand that even with the resources it is not easy to find cures to things that are constantly changing.
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I heard that on the radio today.  As I recall, a team of researchers in Gabon found this particualar strain of HIV in chimp droppings out in the bush.  Imagine going to West Africa to study chimp droppings.
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This really depends on who you mean by "educated people," if the educated person is a doctor or familiar with public health or medicine at all, then they probably don't think AIDS could never happen to them.  They would also tell you HIV/ AIDS rates are actually worse for black women, not homosexuals or prostitutes.\n\nI think maybe the better way to frame this question is "Why might some people think that HIV/AIDS could never happen to them?"  The simple answer to that question is that they are ignorant of the facts.  If a person doesn't know the trends of HIV/AIDS infection, then I would imagine it would be difficult for them to make an educated guess.\n\nAnother reason why people think that any disease or disaster could never happen to them is because that's human nature.  (i.e, Getting robbed?  That could never happen to me.  Getting a rare cancer?  That could never happen to me).  But the problem with HIV/AIDS is that given the trends and risks for contracting the disease is so real, that people should be made more aware of the issue.  Maybe you should consider writing an op-ed or opinion piece to your local newspaper about it, I bet it would really benefit alot of people.
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1.HIV/AIDS looks to be prominent among the gay community probably becoz this virus and the disease was first discovered in gays and was thought to infect only the gays,thus it was termed as a gay related disease but it is well know now that even hetrosexuals can get it if u sleep around with people without any protection.\n2.How we humans got it remains a mystery but scientists now belive that we got it from their bite or when man consumed bush meat.\n3.No America was not the first place,it just that this disease was first discoved in America in 1980's.It was know to have existed in Africa even earlier in the 1950's.
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Aids is the most common condition.
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There are a lot of symptoms that can be associated with HIV and/or AIDS, but the only way to be completely sure is to get tested.
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HIV/AIDS affects all people in the same way, in all races, greed and colors!\n\nIt is fatal to all, regardless of their origins!
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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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false.  it means they will develop aids.  hiv causes aids.
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False ignorance is a danger, look at the spread of aids,and other sexual diseses,we need to be more open not in a perveted way but informative so that people can protect themselves people are going to do what they want to anyway, but let them be informed before its too late.
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* Population\n* Pollution\n* Aids/HIV
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by getting HIV.  AIDS is the symptom
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Misconceptions about HIV?\n\n1. It is communicable in any form. \n\nHIV is only picked up through exchange of bodily fluid (mucus membane {such as the mouth} or via an open wound).\n\n2. Someone with HIV will die quickly.\n\nWith the development of medications, HIV is kept at bay. Usually, as long as the person is free from an active illness, that person can have a fairly healthy life.
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how about this:\nAIDS is possibly the worst epidemic ever encountered by man-kind, but the world can change the course of Africa's future by donating food, water, money, and moral support.  One of the people lending a hand with the moral support of the war against AIDS is an HIV- positive singer by the name of Grace Nakawunde.\n\nyes? no?  you decide.
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Thousands of people are suffering from HIV/AIDS. Plus, half of the infected people are in treatment. Plus, Mandela, the president is doing something about it and the government. I need 10 points. \nI'm in a competition. LOL