How to prevent AIDS
Since 1981, the world’s first reported five cases of HIV (AIDS) since the socio-economic hazards of AIDS, has spread to the world’s 194 countries and regions, so far 25 million people were infected with HIV died. However, the face of this is known as a “super cancer” disease, without blind panic. To know ourselves and should be able to take preventive measures.
HIV prevention so that blood is no longer into commercial products
What is AIDS?
AIDS in medicine full name is “acquired immune deficiency syndrome” (hereinafter referred to AIDS), by the AIDS Virus (HIV) cause, the virus invades the human body, undermining the body’s immune function, can place a variety of human infections or tumors. From the medical name for AIDS can know that it is not innate, is acquired, mainly caused by the body’s immune system is damaged the body against various diseases caused by the ability to reduce the loss.
Projects Agency under the United Nations AIDS estimates that as of the end of 2007, the current global survival of HIV-infected persons is about 33 million. In 2007 of 270 million people were newly infected with HIV, 200 million people died of Aids. In other words, the world’s 7,400 people were newly infected each day with HIV, 5700 people died of Aids. HIV new infections, 96% in low and middle income countries, 14% of children under the age of 15.
In China in 1985, the first reported HIV infection. As of the end of September 2008, the national total reported HIV infected more than 260,000 cases, of which 7.7 thousand cases of AIDS patients died 3.4 thousand cases.
AIDS virus is very fragile
AIDS virus is mainly present in the person’s body fluids such as blood, semen, YD secretion of fluid and so on, mainly through contact with patients or HIV infected blood, semen or secretion of fluid transmission such as YD, the main mode of transmission are: use of untested and contains HIV blood or blood products; and HIV-infected patients or unprotected sexual intercourse took place; and drug users infected with HIV along with sharing of syringes of drug abuse; there is a mother to child transmission, that is, infected pregnant women pass the virus to to her children.
AIDS virus is a very fragile virus, resistance to the external environment is very low, leaving the human body at normal temperature survival time is short. Commonly used disinfectants, including 70% alcohol, can kill the AIDS virus, it will not spread through the skin is not broken. With HIV infection and the patient’s daily life and work of contacts, such as hugging, shaking hands, kissing a courtesy, common meals, common labor, are not infected with HIV. AIDS virus will not be passed sanitary ware, swimming pools and other communication.
To effectively prevent, protect yourself
Survey, transmitted through sexual contact is the main route of transmission in Shanghai, probably more than 50% of people living with HIV through sexual transmitted infections. However, sexual transmission is also very easily be prevented. Expert advice, shall be subject to sexual morality, normative sexual behavior, to protect themselves and protect sexual partners.
Needs to be emphasized is that to create a favorable social environment is an important measure to prevent the spread of AIDS. If society can not very well treated infected with the virus, which may be infected reluctant to be examined, do not know whether they are infected, which adds to the risk of transmission of the virus. Therefore, for them to create a harmonious, tolerant, fair and just a good social environment, it is also conducive to the crowd not been infected.
