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Sunday, December 5, 2010

HIV/AIDS Protection & Treatment: The Prevention Techniques You Need To Know

Hello Again Readers!

In my last two personal blogs, I talked about how a person can contract HIV/AIDS and the startling facts about HIV/AIDS statistics in Colorado. Knowing these facts is critical to educating people who have HIV/AIDS as well as the general public. I felt that by telling people how a person can contract the unfortunate disease, they could better protect themselves and use that knowledge to their advantage. By letting the public know about HIV/AIDS statistics in Colorado, I wanted to explain to the general public that HIV/AIDS affects Colorado too and that they are not immune to the disease just because it is not talked about too often in relation to the state of Colorado.

 In response to those two blogs, I figured I’d talk about how a person can protect themselves from the debilitating HIV/AIDS disease. If you are unfortunate enough to have contracted the disease, there are many prevention techniques that can reduce the effects of HIV/Aids and help you live a regular life.  Also, I am going to share some treatment techniques for those of you that already have the disease or know someone else in need.

As I said in a previous blog, there are three main ways a person can acquire HIV/AIDS; sexual contact, exposure to blood borne pathogens, and parental transmission. Some prevention techniques that can help protect you from HIV/AIDS include:

Sexual Contact
 Using a condom when engaging in sexual relations can greatly reduce a person’s risk of contracting and/or transmitting the disease by over 80%
 Male circumcision can reduce the risk of obtaining HIV/AIDS by over 60%

Exposure to Blood Borne Pathogens
·         Using extra precaution when obtaining a blood transfusion by medical professionals
·         Sterilizing needles when performing drug related acts/Using needle exchange programs
·         Sterilizing tattoo equipment prior to use
·         Never sharing used needles

Parental Transmission
·         Mothers should start taking HIV/AIDS medication during pregnancy
·         Mothers should avoid breastfeeding their children

These are the many simple ways a person can reduce their risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. Now, these prevention techniques are by no means hard to follow. With a little education, millions of people around the world could have protected themselves from the disease.

Sadly, there is no known cure for the HIV/AIDS, but there are treatments that lessen its effects and let an infected person continue a generally normal life. Highly active antiretroviral therapy, or HAART, is the current treatment for HIV/AIDS. HAART uses a combination of up to three drugs to combat the disease and put the disease into remission. Hopefully, with research in the near future, a drug can be created to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic and improve the lives of millions.

For more information please visit: http://www.bcap.org/about_hiv_facts.html

Written by: Taylor Stephan

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