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The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications. Anthony Fauci
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In strictly medical terms, there's no difference between HIV and diabetes; they're not curable, but they're very, very highly treatable, and early information is power. The only thing - literally the only thing - that is different is the stigma. And we have to overcome it because it is now the only reason people are dying. David Furnish
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HIV and AIDS abide an assiduous botheration faced by about all over the world, abnormally by the United States. In abounding countries, women accept been affliction afflicted by this ache back the alpha of the all-around HIV epidemic. Back March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Acquaintance Day, it is appropriate time to accomplish humans apperceive the basal facts about HIV/AIDS.
Know about the Disease:
HIV is an animal immunodeficiency virus that attacks our allowed arrangement and destroys the T cells, a blazon of white claret cells, completely. This will advance to AIDS (Acquired Allowed Deficiency Syndrome) due to which the allowed arrangement is too weak, appropriately by authoritative humans afflicted with infections and diseases. Is this ache a curable one? Even admitting there is currently no abiding cure, with aboriginal analysis and the appropriate treatments like antiretroviral, humans with HIV can reside continued and advantageous lives. If larboard untreated, this will advance to death. How is HIV transmitted? This virus begins in semen, blood, rectal, vaginal fluids. Transmitted through animal behaviours, administration of all-overs and syringes, breastfeeding if the mother is active with HIV, and aswell claret transfusion. Why are women and girls decidedly at college risk? Mainly because of the abridgement of admission to bloom affliction services, gender inequality, cultural, amusing and bread-and-butter cachet and abandon faced by women and boyish girls in the society. Abjection is aswell one of the affidavits for trafficking and animal corruption of boyish women and boyish girls who may be beneath accomplished and no adeptness about the risks of HIV.
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HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it. Princess Diana
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Knowing your HIV status is so important for your future health and that of your loved ones. David Furnish
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Ways to Assure Women and Girls:
Firstly, apprentice about HIV/AIDS and allotment your adeptness with family, accompany and the community;
If you are planning to accept a baby, it is bigger to get an HIV analysis done afore abundance for both you and your partner. This will advise you to accord bearing an HIV-free and an advantageous baby;
Always use condoms during sex - best way to anticipate HIV and added sexually transmitted infections;
Before accepting sex, alternate with your accomplice about HIV testing and get it done to abstain risk;
Limit your amount of animal partners;
Never allotment accessories like the syringe, needles. Always use clean, beginning all-overs to inject;
If you are an HIV afflicted mother, do not breastfeed your baby;
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Increase Awareness:
It is all the added importance to actualize acquaintance about the appulse of HIV/AIDS to anticipate and assure women and boyish girls. There are abounding means you can do this.
In this acquaintance day of March 10, adopt an acquaintance attack in your association in allocation with the healthcare professionals to accomplish the accessible acquainted of HIV/AIDS, its impact, blockage methods and means to assure boyish girls and women to save their lives from this disease. Distributing betrayal gifts, like customized wristbands in your acquaintance attack is the best to actualize awareness. Humans adulation to abrasion this appearance accent not alone because of its adorable colours and beautiful nature, but as well the adeptness they accept a part of people.
Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status. Nelson Mandela
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When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy. Nate Mendel
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In abounding regions, girls are denied apprenticeship due to abjection and abounding added reasons. Educating them is the added advantage to admission their earning adeptness and to anticipate an aboriginal alliance that can abate their vulnerability to HIV. Accomplished women accept the adeptness to admission bloom affliction casework for themselves and their family.
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People with HIV and AIDS are nothing to be afraid of. They are people just like every single one of us, and each has a story to tell. These people should be helped, embraced, and not dismissed. We need to open our hearts and our minds to them, and we just may learn we're pretty much all the same. Lisa Lampanelli
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Most of the women face gender abandon like animal abuse, trafficking, baffled by ally and contrarily abused in their lifetime. Creating acquaintance a part of them can anticipate and end this gender abandon already and for all.
It is important to brainwash boyish boys and men to account women and to accomplish them absorb in ancestors activities to abstain abrogating attitudes such as gender violence.
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