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2008
HIV is not transmitted by day-to-day contact in the work place, schools or social settings. HIV is not transmitted through shaking hands, hugging or casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, a drinking fountain, a door knob, dishes, drinking glasses, food or pets. HIV is not air borne or food borne. It does not live long outside the body.
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10
2008
Avoid sharing of needles. Take your own disposable syringe; buy a pack of ten. Do not share blades, pierce ear, make tattoos, use acupuncture needles or any sharp instruments that are likely to carry infection.
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10
2008
Preventive precautions for blood transmission include :
- Take blood from a licensed blood bank.
- Make sure that the blood has the stamp of ‘HIV Free’ on it.
- Unless there is a blood or a blood related disorder like thalassemia or hemophilia, avoid single unit transfusion. Single unit blood can be made in the body through proper diet and is avoidable.
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10
2008
Safer sex practices for prevention via sexual route include :
- Abstinence, the only 100% sure way to avoid infection via sexual route.
- Non-penetrative sexual activities, such as hugging, kissing, etc.
- Mutual masturbation, i.e. anything that does not involve the sharing of semen, vaginal fluid or blood.
- Long-term mutually faithful partner. Lesser the number of sexual partners, Lower the risk of getting infected.
- Proper and consistent use of condoms from start to finish for penetrative sex (vaginal, oral and anal ).
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16
10
2008
“Prevention is always better than cure”. The only way to protect from this disease is by not sharing needles, not coming in contact with infected blood and having protected sexual intercourse.
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10
2008
Yes. Studies have shown that children of HIV infected mothers can get HIV infection through breast milk. However, it has many constituents that protect an infants health. The slight risk of an infant becoming infected with HIV through breast-feeding is therefore ought to be outweighed by the benefits of breast-feeding.
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14
10
2008
An HIV infected mother can infect the child in her womb. The baby is more at risk if the mother has been recently infected or is in a later stage of AIDS. Transmission can occur at the time of birth when the baby is exposed to the mothers blood and to the some extent transmission can occur through breast milk. Transmission from an infected mother to her baby occurs in about 33% of cases.
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14
09
2008
Yes, it is possible for you to become infected with HIV while receiving oral sex. If your partner has HIV, they pass the infection from their mouth to the penis, the vagina, the anus or directly into the blood through small cuts or open spores.
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13
09
2008
It is possible for you to become infected with HIV through performance of oral sex. Blood, semen and vaginal fluid can all contain the virus. Cells in the linings of mouth may carry HIV into lymph nodes or the body. The risk increases if you have cuts or sores around or in your mouth or throat. If your partner ejaculates in your mouth or if your partner has another sexually transmitted infection.
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12
09
2008
Yes, it is possible for either sex partners to become infected with HIV during anal sex. HIV can be found in the blood, semen or vaginal fluid of a person infected with the virus. Generally speaking the person receiving the semen is at a greater risk of getting HIV.
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7
09
2008
A risky activity is anything that makes it possible for the virus to pass from one person to another. E.g. sexual intercourse without a condom is risky; contact with infected blood is risky, etc.
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6
09
2008
HIV is transmitted in the following ways :
- By unprotected sexual intercourse with a person who is already infected with HIV. This is the most common way of getting HIV.
- By the transfusion of infected blood and blood products.
- By sharing needles contaminated with HIV infected blood.
- By a HIV positive pregnant women to the new born baby—Before, during or just after delivery (through breast feeding ).
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5
09
2008
HIV cannot create itself under any circumstances. The virus has to be present in a person’s body and then passed on to someone else. HIV does not develop in a person’s body on its own accord. It is found only in ‘human beings’ and can only be ‘acquired’ from another infected human being.
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5
09
2008
For transmission of HIV it should be present in the body fluids ( Blood, Semen, Vaginal fluids, Breast Milk ) in a high enough concentration to cause the infection. HIV can be transmitted when blood, semen, vaginal fluids or breast milk from an infected person enters the body of an uninfected person.
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4
09
2008
Early death of AIDS affect people, who had been more productive, severely affects the socio-economic structure of families, communities and countries. Besides, AIDS is not curable. Also HIV is transmitted predominantly through sexual route, and as sexual practices are essentially a private domain, these issues are difficult to address.
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3
09
2008
A virus called HIV causes AIDS, but where the virus came from is not known. However, as new facts are discovered about viruses, the question of where HIV came from is becoming more complicated to answer. What is more important is the fact that HIV is present in all countries and we need to determine how best to prevent further spread of this deadly virus.
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2
09
2008
Being HIV-positive means that you have been infected with the virus. It is within the body and is slowly destroying the immune system. However, when the immune system becomes very weak and the body starts developing a number of infections, it is called AIDS. From the time the person has been infected with the virus, it may take anywhere from 5 to 10 years for AIDS to develop.
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1
09
2008
When the person has HIV in the body, the virus destroys the white blood cells, which can no longer fight against the disease germs. Thus HIV hinders our immune system from protecting our body. It helps the germs to take over our body and we become vulnerable to a variety of infections. These infections are called ‘opportunistic infections’.
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1
09
2008
Yesterday I got a call from Mr. Vijay Vats. He claims that he can help “heal” a HIV positive person. He wants a few Volunteers from Mumbai to prove his claim.
“I believe that the principles of health I follow can make a difference. May be even nail the virus.”
Mr Vijay Vats is a man whom i admire a lot. He has proven that Indian Classical Yoga is able to cure Heart Ailments without bypass surgery. More details is available on his website ByPass Guru and Million Dollar Health
I request all the readers and visitors of this Blog to come forward and help Mr. Vijay Vats as he is doing this for FREE.
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08
2008
Immune system works like an army. It consists of special cells called the White Blood Cells ( WBC ). When germs invade the body, the WBC’s fight against the germs. This way our immune system protects us from falling prey to illness.
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