•QUESTIONS

RELATED TO IT.
• (a) What is your understanding of HIV/AIDS?
• (b) What factors contribute to the prevalence of
HIV/AIDS?
• (c) How can we prevent HIV/AIDS?
• (d) What are the consequences of HIV/AIDS? Give 5
HIV/AIDS examples.
• (e) What are the negative effects of HIV/AIDS on the
life of youth, family, and society?
• (f) What are the naco initiatives and programs for
hiv/aids prevention?
• (g) Address some of the global perspectives associated
with HIV/AIDS.
• (h) What is Red Ribbon Club?
 QUESTION 1. WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING FOR HIV/AIDS?
HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is a virus that attacks cells that help the body fight
infection, making a person more vulnerable to other infections and diseases. It is spread
by contact with certain bodily fluids of a person with HIV, most commonly during
unprotected sex (sex without a condom or HIV medicine to prevent or treat HIV), or
through sharing injection drug equipment.

he human body can’t get rid of HIV and no effective HIV cure exists. So, once you have
HIV, you have it for life.
Luckily, however, effective treatment with HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy or
ART) is available. If taken as prescribed, HIV medicine can reduce the amount of HIV in
the blood (also called the viral load) to a very low level. This is called viral suppression. If
a person’s viral load is so low that a standard lab can’t detect it, this is called having an
undetectable viral load. People with HIV who take HIV medicine as prescribed and get
and keep an undetectable viral load can live long and healthy lives and will not transmit
HIV to their HIV-negative partners through sex.
QUESTION 2.What factors contribute to the
prevalence of HIV/AIDS?

• Behaviours and conditions that put people at greater risk of contracting HIV
include:
• having condomless anal or vaginal sex;
• having another sexually transmitted infection (STI) such as syphilis, herpes,
chlamydia, gonorrhoea and bacterial vaginosis;
 • Infections common to HIV/AIDS
QUESTION 4.What • Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP). This fungal
are the infection can cause severe illness. ...
consequences • Candidiasis (thrush). Candidiasis is a
common HIV -related infection. ...
of HIV/AIDS? Give • Tuberculosis (TB). TB is a common
opportunistic infection associated with HIV .
5 examples. ...
• Cytomegalovirus. ...
• Cryptococcal meningitis. ...
• Toxoplasmosis.
QUESTION 5. What are the negative effects
of HIV/AIDS on the life of youth, family, and society?

• There are an estimated 650 000 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) in China [1].
• HIV infection impacts not only PLHA but also their whole family [2].
• Given the family-oriented structure of Chinese society [3],
• HIV can have a devastating effect on Chinese families. Many PLHA are parents and caregivers who are supposed to attend
to the needs of their child; they have to cope with their own physical health symptoms, complex medication regimens [4],
• stigma [5],
• and fear of AIDS-related death, and must also care for their families [6,
• 7]. The psychological burden and stress affect their overall mental health, and depression is common among parents and
caregivers as they struggle with financial limitations [8].
• Many caregivers find that they can no longer work as the disease progresses and their health deteriorates, and
unemployment leads to extreme economic hardships [9].
QUESTION 6.
What are NACO is the nodal organization for National AIDS response in the Ministry of
Health and Family Welfare. National AIDS Control Programme is a fully
the naco initiatives funded Central Sector Scheme implemented through State/ UT AIDS Control
and programs Societies (SACS) in States/Union Territories (UTs) and closely monitored
through District AIDS prevention and control unit (DAPCU) in 188 high
for hiv/aids priority districts. Currently, National AIDS Control programme (NACP)-IV
prevention? (extension) is under implementation for the period 2017-20.

Prevention: Targeted Interventions (TI) for High Risk Groups (Female Sex
WorkersFSW, Men who have Sex with Men-MSM, Injecting Drug Users-IDU,
Transgenders Hijra- TGH) and Bridge population (migrants, truckers etc) is
fundamental to AIDS response and aims to keep these population Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) free through awareness generation, safe
behaviour promotion, HIV testing etc. Interventions for HIV prevention are
also important for inmates of prisons and other closed settings. People who
have Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) have higher risk of HIV infections
and hence the NACP provides quality standardized STI/ RTI services at
Designated STI/RTI Clinic (DSRC), branded as Suraksha Clinic. Safe blood (free
of HIV, Malaria, Syphilis, Hep B and Hep C) is ensured through a NACO
supported network of blood transfusion services.
QUESTION
7. Address some of
• The global target for HIV status awareness is 95%
the global by 2025. HIV Treatment Access—As of the end of
2022, 29.8 million people with HIV (76% of all people
perspectives with HIV) were accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART)
globally. HIV treatment access is key to the global
associated with effort to end AIDS as a public health threat.
HIV/AIDS.
 • Red Ribbon Club is a movement started by the
Government of India in schools and colleges through
which, students will spread awareness over HIV / AIDS. It
envisages to instill charity mind among all the students to
extend their able help towards developing healthy life
styles, donating blood to all the needy by promotion of
Regular voluntary blood donation.
• The red ribbon is a symbol for both drug prevention
QUESTION 8. What and for the fight against AIDS. The Red Ribbon
foundation is an organization founded in 1993 whose
is Red Ribbon Club? main purpose is the education about prevention of the
Human Immunodeficiency Virus or HIV, Acquired
Deficiency Syndrome Related Complex, ARC and AIDS.
• AIM:
• The Red Ribbon Club, Don Bosco College Tura aims at
harnessing the potential of the youth by equipping them
with correct information on HIV/AIDS Prevention, Care,
Support and Treatment. It also aims in building their
capacities as peer educators in spreading messages on
positive health behavior in an enabling environment and
increasing voluntary blood donation from among youth.