AIDS is transmitted mainly through sexual contact, blood and mother-to-child transmission.
You will not get AIDS from daily and work contact with AIDS patients and HIV-infected people. The fundamental measure to prevent HIV transmission through sexual means is to be clean and abide by sexual ethics. The correct use of condoms (condoms) can not only prevent pregnancy, but also reduce the risk of contracting AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. Early treatment and cure of sexually transmitted diseases can reduce the risk of contracting AIDS. Intravenous drug use with shared syringes is an important way to spread AIDS, so refuse drugs and cherish life.
Avoid unnecessary blood transfusions and injections, and use blood and blood products that have been tested for HIV antibodies. Caring for, helping and not discriminating against AIDS patients and HIV-infected people, and encouraging them to participate in AIDS prevention and control are important aspects of AIDS prevention and control. AIDS threatens every person and every family, and prevention of AIDS is the responsibility of the whole society
Can kissing transmit AIDS?
There is no doubt that researchers have long found that HIV genes can be detected in the saliva of people with AIDS, but these viruses cannot go on to infect other cells. In the 1980s and 1990s, epidemiological analyses also long ago found that the chances of HIV transmission through oral saliva were extremely low or virtually non-existent.
This phenomenon prompted several AIDS experts to speculate that the oral cavity must contain some antiviral components!
After studying the saliva components, experts found that there is generally no live virus in the mouth because saliva contains several active proteins that can fight HIV infection, especially a protein called GP340, which can remove certain bacteria from the mouth and play an important role in preventing dental caries and protecting teeth.
As the research progressed, it became clear that the gene for this protein may play two more important roles in the body: one is related to cell development and differentiation, and the other is related to a person’s natural immunity, which is consistent with the GP340 protein’s ability to block the activity of HIV-infected cells. “We did a lot of research work to finally prove that GP340 inhibits the activity of HIV-infected cells and to figure out how it works.” The experts said.
Do condoms reduce HIV infection rates
Some people believe that prostitutes deserve to get STDs and AIDS. But the problem isn’t that simple. When they get the disease, it can spread to their families and others through a variety of ways. For this group of sexually promiscuous people, changing sexual behavior, including the use of condoms, is the main way to prevent STDs and AIDS.
Although the effectiveness of condom prevention cannot reach 100%, after a 3-month pilot project to promote condom prevention of STD and AIDS among a special group of people in a county, it was found that the usage rate of condom increased from 21.5% before the publicity work to 85% after the publicity work. At the same time, syphilis and gonorrhea infection rates both dropped by more than 50%.
Nearly 20 years of worldwide experience tells us that promoting the use of condoms to prevent STDs and AIDS does not encourage sexual promiscuity.
Conducting counseling services, promoting the use of condoms, setting up condom sales points, and especially promoting the use of condoms among high-risk groups and key populations (such as prostitutes and drug users) is one of the important measures to control the rising trend of the AIDS and STD epidemic. Education on prevention of sexual transmission, especially extensive and lasting sexual health education, timely diagnosis, standardized treatment, reduction of sexual partners and other measures should also go hand in hand, and all efforts should complement each other.
At present, China is facing a serious situation of STD and AIDS, we must pay attention to the whole society, all people take action, and actively promote the implementation of the national medium and long-term plan for the prevention and control of STD and AIDS, we will be able to effectively prevent and control the spread and spread of STD and AIDS in China.
The issue of AIDS prevention and control has been affected by two concepts, one is sexual morality education and the other is self-protection (condom) education. Promoting the use of condoms does not mean that sexual morality education should be relaxed, but the more imminent issue is to learn how to protect oneself from STDs and AIDS. It seems that the little condom will have an important role to play in the big battle against AIDS.
Ten must-know facts about HIV prevention.
Despite the increasing popularity of AIDS knowledge, many people still have misconceptions when it comes to AIDS, and more people choose to avoid facing AIDS patients. Fear and discrimination stem from a lack of understanding and trust, and it is the responsibility of society to spread knowledge about AIDS. Please learn about AIDS prevention and tell others.
1.AIDS is a serious infectious disease with a high death rate. There is no cure for it, but it can be prevented.
2. HIV is mainly found in the blood, semen, vaginal secretions, breast milk and other body fluids of infected people, so it is transmitted through three ways: sexual contact, blood and mother-to-child transmission. The vast majority of infected people take 5-10 years to develop into patients, and generally die within 2-3 years after the onset of the disease.
3, daily life and work contact with HIV and HIV-infected people (such as shaking hands, hugging, eating together, sharing tools, office utensils, etc.) will not infect HIV. HIV will not be transmitted through public facilities such as toilet rings, telephone sets, dining utensils, sleeping utensils, swimming pools or public bathrooms, nor will it be transmitted through coughing, sneezing and mosquito bites.
4.Being clean and abiding by sexual ethics is the fundamental measure to prevent HIV transmission through sexual means.
5.The correct use of condoms can not only prevent pregnancy, but also reduce the risk of HIV and STD infection.
6.Early treatment and cure of sexually transmitted diseases can reduce the risk of HIV infection. Regular hospitals can provide regular and confidential examination, diagnosis, treatment and counseling services, and if necessary, you can use the local STD and AIDS hotline for consultation.
7.Syringe sharing is an important way to spread AIDS, refuse drugs and cherish life.
8.Avoid unnecessary blood transfusions, injections, use of tooth extraction and beauty appliances that are not strictly sterilized, and regular use of blood and blood products tested for HIV antibodies.
9.Care, help and do not discriminate against AIDS patients and HIV-infected people, who are victims of the disease and deserve humanitarian sympathy and help. Families and society should create a friendly, understanding and healthy living and working environment for them, encourage them to adopt a positive attitude towards life, change their risky behavior and cooperate with treatment, which is conducive to improving the quality of their lives and prolonging their lives, as well as to the prevention of AIDS and the maintenance of social stability.
10.AIDS threatens everyone, and prevention of AIDS is the responsibility of the whole society.
How to detect HIV infection: 1.
1.Can the initial symptoms of AIDS diagnose AIDS?
Can the initial symptoms of AIDS be diagnosed? Experts say that the initial symptoms of AIDS are not the standard for diagnosing AIDS, the initial symptoms of AIDS can only be used as a reference, and an AIDS test is needed to determine the diagnosis of AIDS.
The incubation period of AIDS is as long as ten years, and the initial symptoms of AIDS can be easily ignored and misdiagnosed as flu, night sweats, chills, fever, weight loss, loss of appetite and other faint symptoms that can suggest the infection of AIDS, but it is difficult to detect the infection of AIDS by these symptoms.
Experts say that HIV is easy to detect and can be detected in 2-6 weeks of infection. Therefore, it is very helpful to recognize the initial symptoms of AIDS for the prevention and treatment of the disease. Although the initial symptoms of AIDS can not be used as a criterion to diagnose AIDS, but the initial symptoms of AIDS can help diagnose AIDS early.
2.So, what are the initial symptoms of AIDS?
Swollen lymph nodes, rash, night sweats, headache, cough, low fever, chronic diarrhea, weight loss, cough, oral lesions, arthralgia, muscle pain, maculopapular rash, urticaria, abdominal pain, Kapozi sarcoma, etc. However, these initial symptoms are not obvious and can be easily ignored. Moreover, many infected people remain asymptomatic after HIV is detected.
Warm reminder: AIDS is mainly transmitted through sexual transmission, blood transmission and mother-to-child transmission. It is important to pay attention to sexual health and hygiene on a daily basis to avoid contracting AIDS and endangering the health of sexual partners and family members.
Can AIDS be cured by early treatment?
According to Xinhua News Agency, French scientists said on the 14th, a follow-up survey of 14 AIDS patients showed that early treatment may be able to produce a “functional cure” effect.
The study said the 14 patients, aged between 34 and 66, were infected with HIV between the 1990s and the first decade of this century. Unlike other AIDS patients, they all started treatment within 10 weeks of infection.
They all started treatment within 10 weeks of infection and began to stop taking their medication after an average of three years of treatment. Today, all 14 have manageable viral loads in their bodies. In general, the HIV virus increases in people with AIDS when they stop taking medication. Cyron, a member of the Pasteur Institute in the French capital, Paris, said many people treated in the same way failed to control their infection, but “a small group of people got it to work. The mechanism by which this group of patients continued to fight HIV in their bodies after they stopped taking the drug is not clear, but “they proved that a functional cure could exist because they had controlled the infection for many years, thanks to starting treatment early. Between 5 and 15 percent of patients can achieve a “functional cure,” he said. “They still have HIV in their body and can’t get rid of it, but the infection is in remission.”
No coincidence. U.S. experts announced on the 3rd of this month that a two-year-old girl born with HIV had been largely cured and had not seen any infection for almost a year after stopping her medication.
AIDS should be detected and treated early.
AIDS is not really as people imagine that can not fight, after treatment, the virus can not be detected in the blood, and if the use of domestic drug combinations, AIDS patients monthly treatment costs only about 500 yuan, the heaviest patients need only 2000 yuan a month of drug costs.
Too late for medical treatment, survival period becomes shorter
In view of the current situation of AIDS treatment, experts point out that the biggest difficulty is that AIDS patients are generally treated too late, and the consultation rate is low, and many patients wait until serious complications or even life-threatening diseases appear before starting treatment. Therefore, how to make patients receive timely, inexpensive and efficient treatment is a very critical issue.
At present, there is no cure for AIDS, but with aggressive treatment, patients’ survival time can be extended for a long time. Currently, domestic AIDS patients can live more than 30 years longer through treatment.
Treatment must be started if the viral load exceeds 10,000
There is also a standard for determining whether an AIDS patient needs to receive treatment. “Overseas, treatment should be started when the viral load in the body exceeds 30,000, and currently, treatment should be started when the viral load in the body exceeds 10,000 in China.
How to establish a network for monitoring the virus in patients in the infection stage is a very important issue. Because patients at this stage are asymptomatic as normal people, the incubation period can be up to more than 10 years. However, for various reasons, this network has not been established and patients often do not know how to seek help from professional institutions.
Less than $1,000 per month with domestic drugs
In fact, the monthly treatment cost for AIDS patients depends on the combination of drugs, if the combination of imported drugs is used, it is about 3000 yuan a month, if the combination of domestic drugs is used, it is more than 500 yuan a month and less than 1000 yuan, but generally patients are resistant to drugs, so the combination of drugs used depends on the patient’s condition. Which combination depends on the patient’s condition. At present, AIDS patients are generally unable to bear the financial burden.
Doctors are also unable to promote more effective therapies. For example, cocktail therapy is the most effective therapy in the world today, but it takes 50,000 to 60,000 yuan to do a treatment, which is not affordable for the average patient, although one or two varieties have been introduced in China, which are much cheaper, but patients have drug resistance after a period of time, and there are no better varieties in rotation, which also cause AIDS patients cannot get good treatment.