HIV AIDS: The Causes, Symptoms, Effects and Treatment
HIV AIDS: The Causes, Symptoms, Effects and Treatment
HIV AIDS: The Causes, Symptoms, Effects and Treatment
undergo this treatment are living a healthy and meaningful life as the virus is
slowed down. On the other hand, if an individual believes that he is exposed
to the virus, he can take an emergency HIV-pills called PEP (post-exposure
prophylaxis) that may stop the infection. However, it may only work for the
very early exposure. Furthermore, it is different for those who suffer the
wasting syndrome. They are usually prescribed with few agents to help
them gaining weight and be healthier. Some of the agents recommended to
these people are growth hormone, steroids and appetite stimulants.
Additionally, there are a great deal of researches on new treatment of HIV
that we need to keep up-dated with our doctors or pharmacists.
Anyone can become infected with HIV despite the age, skin colour, countries
and lifestyle. Fortunately, as the old saying goes prevention is better than
cure, HIV can surely be prevented. There are many ways to prevent HIV
infection. The most common one is to practice safe sex by using condom.
Despite the way people are having sex including vaginal, anal and oral,
condom is a must use item. Likewise, people should also reduce the number
of sex partners. Limit the numbers to only one or two partners in order to
keep clean of the infections. Having many sex partners lead to more
exposure of the disease. Additionally, if a person is having HIV and is
pregnant, do consult a doctor. It is important to have the experts opinion in
order to keep the baby safe. It is said that the risk of infecting an infant
during childbirth can be reduced with medications and caesarean section
which appropriate. Last but not least, do not practice sharing needles with
anyone. A used needle should be thrown into the dustbin right after usage.
Although we are brought up with the tag sharing is caring, sharing needles
is not a caring action. The ways of preventing the virus seem to be easy and
common but these ways are ignored by majority of the people. It is essential
to keep ourselves with knowledge of preventing HIV because it definitely
cannot be cured only controlled.
In the nutshell, HIV is often mistaken as an easily transmitted disease
especially through physical contacts. It is also believed to be spread in many
ways as long as there is a contact with the infected people which is not true
at all. Unfortunately, majority of the people are lack of knowledge of this
disease including the causes, effects, symptoms and the treatments until one
of the f amily members or themselves are infected. HIV awareness
programmes should be held more often with the purpose of raising
awareness in our people so that we are equipped with the knowledge thus
the infected people will get the social treatments they always deserve.