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December 01 WORLD AIDS DAYToday, 1st December is World AIDS Day. Go search on the internet and get more info about AIDS. Let people know that AIDS is a condition, not a disease.
This is what I compiled from watching the World AIDS Day special on Channel V and from Wikipedia. Read it, it's not THAT boring.   MYTH: HIV and AIDS are the same.
FACT: HIV is the name for the virus, Human Immunodeficiency Virus . AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. According to Wikipedia, HIV is a retrovirus that causes AIDS, a condition in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections. MYTH: We can contract AIDS by touching tainted blood and sitting on infected syringes.
FACT: NO, we cannot. The virus HIV cannot live outside a hosts' body for long. Its chances of survival outside a human body (for example, blood in a syringe) after two hours is very slim. MYTH: We can get AIDS by having contact with a HIV-positive person.
FACT: NO, we CANNOT get HIV/AIDS from touching, kissing, holding hands or hugging a HIV-positive person. So it's okay to do:   to someone who is HIV-positive. Don't stare at others if they do. There are only three ways HIV/AIDS can be contracted. One, through unprotected sex. Two, through sharing of contaminated needles. Three, from an infected mother to her child through birth or breast milk. A person can also contract HIV/AIDS through contaminated blood transfusion, but this rarely happens nowadays. Don't treat HIV-positive people differently than you treat HIV-negative people. Get over that social stigma.
Here are some sites to keep you people informed: http://www.unicef.org/uniteforchildren/index.html http://www.mac.org.my/ http://www.worldaidsday.org/ |
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