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Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll

Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll. HIV/ AIDS Prevention 7 th grade. Day 1 : Today We Will…. Discuss what we think/feel about HIV/AIDS Describe the difference between HIV & AIDS Look at how people get HIV Explain how people with HIV get sick. Agreements. Respect everyone

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Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll

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  1. Sex, Drugs, and Rock-n-Roll HIV/AIDS Prevention 7th grade

  2. Day 1: Today We Will… • Discuss what we think/feel about HIV/AIDS • Describe the difference between HIV & AIDS • Look at how people get HIV • Explain how people with HIV get sick

  3. Agreements • Respect everyone • No put downs! • Raise your hand • One person speaks at a time • Participate! • Ask questions • Keep an open mind

  4. HIV Statistics • The fastest growing group of people getting infected with HIV is heterosexual teenagers. • Half of all new infections are now occurring among people ages 15-24. • Two teenagers an hour become infected with HIV. • AIDS is the 6th leading cause of death among 15-24 year olds • New York State has the greatest number of AIDS cases with 181,461 • There are 26 AIDS cases in Cortland County

  5. Cortland and Surrounding Counties:Number of AIDS cases, 2007 • Cayuga 323 • Onondaga 1225 • Madison 54 • Tompkins 142 • Cortland 26 • Chenango 61 • Tioga 30 • Broome 358

  6. Human • Immuno-deficiency • Virus • It takes up to 10+ years for HIV to develop into AIDS ______________________________________________________ • Acquired (gotten from someone else) • Immuno- (immune system) • Deficiency (hard time fighting disease) • Syndrome (signs and symptoms of a disease)

  7. Body Fluids Which Transmit HIV YESNO Blood Urine Semen Feces Vaginal Fluids Vomit Breast milk Saliva Tears Sweat

  8. How You Get HIV: • Sex - oral, anal, and vaginal - blood, semen, and vaginal fluids can be exchanged • IV Drugs - blood exchanged from one person to another • Mother to child - blood exchanged through birth or breastmilk exchanged after baby is born

  9. How You Do NOT get HIV: • Treatment from doctors and dentists • Donating blood • Casual contact with others

  10. How HIV progresses into AIDS: WINDOW PERIOD ASYMPTOMATIC SYMPTOMATIC AIDS

  11. STAGE 1: WINDOW PERIOD • Point of infection • Takes 1-3 months for antibodies to show up on an HIV test • A person in the window period would test negative even though are actually positive • Can infect another person • Person looks and feels fine • T-cells are approximately 1000 per milliliter of blood

  12. Stage 2: ASYMPTOMATIC • Stage lasts three months after infection to approximately 10 years after infection • Immune system is under attack • T-cells are being destroyed • Person still looks and feels fine • Experiencing no symptoms of sickness • Can infect another person • T-cells are approximately 1000-500 per milliliter of blood

  13. Stage 3: SYMPTOMATIC • Typically three years to ten years after infection, a person will develop symptoms of HIV • Immune system is still being destroyed • Person begins to feel sick: weight loss, fatigue, diarrhea, night sweats, vomiting • Can still infect another person • Person’s t-cell count drops to approximately 500-200 per milliliter of blood

  14. Stage 4: AIDS • When T-cell count drops below 200 per milliliter of blood, a person is diagnosed with AIDS • A person typically becomes infected with opportunistic diseases like: Karposi’s sarcoma (cancer of blood vessels) or pneumosystic pneumonia, AIDS dementia • A person dies from the opportunistic disease, not from AIDS

  15. Fact or Myth Activity • Based on all the information you learned today, decide whether each statement is true or false.

  16. Fact or Myth? • Some animals, like monkeys, have the HIV virus. FALSE • A pandemic is when a large number of people get a disease and it spreads quickly. TRUE • People with HIV have difficulty fighting off infections. TRUE • HIV is the same as AIDS. FALSE • A person can be infected with HIV through saliva and sweat. FALSE

  17. Fact or myth? • All mothers with HIV will have babies that have HIV. FALSE • You have a chance of getting HIV when you donate blood. FALSE • Having unprotected sex is the major way teens are getting HIV. TRUE • Doctors often get HIV from patients because they work around a lot of blood. FALSE • It can take up to 10 years or more for a person with HIV to get AIDS. TRUE

  18. Conclusion • Questions? • Comments? • Pass this information on to others • Thank you for your cooperation

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