Treating HIV/AIDS & Minimizing Your Risk
Advances in treatment have prolonged the lives of people living with HIV / AIDS and improve their quality of life. Although there are treatments, there is still no cure for HIV infection.
It may be difficult for those who are infected with HIV to find a drug plan that works for them. There are often side effects associated with drugs that greatly reduce their quality of life. Using long-term drug treatments can also cause organ damage, heart disease, diabetes and other health problems. In addition, some treatments begin to fail due to drug resistance in new strains of virus .
What is essential is that AIDS is a fatal disease. Prevention is the only answer until a cure or vaccine has been developed.
HIV / AIDS can be transmitted from one body through blood, semen, pre-ejaculate, vaginal fluids and breast milk. There are several steps you can take to reduce their risk of HIV infection:
* Use latex condoms for safe sex.
* To defer or refrain from sexual activity and reduce the number of partners.
* Discuss HIV with your partner and have sex only with one partner agrees to use a latex condom.
* Never share needles or injection equipment.
* If you are getting a tattoo, piercing or acupuncture, make sure that all equipment is sterile.
* Talk If you are pregnant and concerned about HIV with your doctor about testing. Early treatment with medication can prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child before birth.
* If you have risk behavior, get tested.
Remember that the only way to be sure is 100 percent do not engage in sexual activity or otherwise, where bodily fluids are exchanged.