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PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS: Despite considerable investment and research, there is currently no vaccine for HIV. This means that for now HIV has no known cure, so early detection and change in sexual behavior and education about HIV and how it is spread is an essential part of HIV prevention. Amongst the preventive measures are: -Ensure safer sex practice: we shall continue to lay emphasis in the ABCD of safe sex rule.
-EFFECTIVE SEX EDUCATION AND AWARENESS: It is the responsibility of everyone to inform and educate others about HIV/AIDS. Effective sex education is important for providing young people with the knowledge and skill to protect themselves from sexual transmission of HIV. Comprehensive sex education should develop skills and attitudes that encourage healthy sexual relationships, as well as detailed information on how to practice safer sex. -PREVENTING TRANSMISSION OF HIV THROUGH BLOOD: A person can protect him/herself against HIV infection by ensuring t hat HIV infected blood does not enter their body. Injecting drug uses who share injecting equipment or works are at risk of HIV infection. Needle exchange programmes can help to prevent HIV transmission amongst drug users by providing clean needles and disposing of used ones. Health care workers can be exposed to HIV infected blood while at work. The most effective way to limit their risk of HIV is to use universal precaution with every patient for example. Washing hands and wearing protective barrier (gloves, aprons, goggles) in the event that a health care worker is exposed to potentially HIV infected blood/blood products at work, PEP (post exposure prophylaxis) is as an HIV prevention measure. one(individual) should resist unscreened blood to ascertain if such blood is contaminated (infected) or not .if the blood is medically certified to be HIV or other infection free, then such blood/blood products can then be use for blood transfusion. -STI and other related diseases Any sexually transmitted infections should be promptly and properly treated. -Avoid certain traditional practices. Female circumcision (female Genital Mutilation) should be discouraged. The sharing of razors in circumcision should also be avoided. -Preventing Mother To Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV .This is achievable by using entire trained drugs, which reduce the chances of a child becoming infected with HIV from around 25% to less than 2%. Once a child is born, safer infant bleeding practiced can also greatly reduce the risk of HIV being passed on from mother to child. For this precaution to be taken, an HIV positive mother must firstly be aware of her status. This is why HIV testing in pregnancy is a crucial prevention measure. |
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