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GSS GWARINPA C onnecting Classrooms

GSS GWARINPA C onnecting Classrooms. PAYING IT FORWARD ‘Project Reach out 2 Kado Village’. What Is AIDS?.

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GSS GWARINPA C onnecting Classrooms

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  1. GSS GWARINPAConnecting Classrooms PAYING IT FORWARD ‘Project Reach out 2 Kado Village’

  2. What Is AIDS? Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), human viral disease that ravages the immune system, undermining the body’s ability to defend itself from infection and disease. Caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

  3. What Is HIV • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME (AIDS)

  4. What Is HIV

  5. Causes OF HIV/AIDS What Is HIV • Transmission of HIV—the AIDS-causing virus—occurs most commonly as a result of sexual intercourse.

  6. Causes OF HIV/AIDS

  7. Causes OF HIV/AIDS • HIV also can be transmitted through transfusions of HIV-contaminated blood or • By using a contaminated needle or syringe to inject drugs into the bloodstream.

  8. SYMPTOMS OF HIV Within one to three weeks after infection with HIV, most people experience flu-like symptoms, such as • fever, • sore throat, • headache, • skin rash, • tender lymph nodes, and • a vague feeling of discomfort.

  9. SYMPTOMS OF HIV These symptoms include 7. Extensive Weight Loss And Fatigue (Wasting Syndrome), 8. Periodic Fever, 9. Recurring Diarrhoea, And Thrush, 10. A Fungal Mouth Infection. An early symptom of HIV infection in women is a recurring vaginal yeast infection.

  10. SYMPTOMS OF HIV While persons who have HIV may remain in good health during this period, HIV continues to replicate, progressively destroying the immune system. Often an infected person remains unaware that he or she carries HIV and unknowingly transmits the virus to others during this phase of the infection.

  11. PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS • Abstinence • Safe sex • Faithfulness to one or multiple partners • Avoid Contact with Sharp Object that can pierce through like pins, syringes • Avoid Sharing of these objects like clippers and niddles • Blood should be screened before used for transfusion

  12. PREVENTION OF HIV/AIDS Male and Female condoms have been shown to be an important HIV prevention tool.

  13. Our Future can be protected It starts with you and me

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