Wednesday, 2 December 2015

THE HOPEFUL THRUTH ABOUT

HIV/AIDS

With World AIDS Day just around the corner, (1 December!) it’s time to get all the information about this disease that unfortunately still affects millions of people around the world.

For a long time, an HIV positive diagnosis was effectively a death sentence. You would see celebrities rumoured to have the disease slowly waste away, until the seemingly inevitable end. This is thankfully not the case. Medication counteracting the immunosuppressant effects of an HIV infection can minimise the impact of the disease, so long as you take medication regularly. It’s a much more hopeful situation than it was back in the ‘70s and ‘80s.

There’s more good news too, preventative medication like PrEP (Pre-exposure Prophylactics) can even prevent an infection if you do come into contact with HIV-infected bodily fluids. And though that’s good news, there’s a lot of education still needed so that people will stop fretting that they’ll contract the disease from, say, a handshake.
We’ve not cured the disease yet, (check out the video for more details on that,) but what we hopefully can cure is the unfair stigma that those afflicted with HIV/AIDS are still suffering through. And the best way to go about that is to educate!

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