HIV / AIDs

1. HIV / AIDs Experiential Learning Technology

2. What is AIDs? • AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a group of diseases that break down your immune system and causes you to die. • HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. *you may have the HIV virus without having and visible signs or symptoms **you may not get full blown AIDS for up to years after you were infected! Experiential Learning Technology

3. Identify High Risk Behaviors Experiential Learning Technology

4. Show Me……. • Thumbs up for high risk • Wave your hand if possible risk • Thumbs down if not a risk Experiential Learning Technology

5. Going to school with a person who has AIDS. Experiential Learning Technology

6. Sexual contact with a person who is HIV positive. Experiential Learning Technology

7. Donating blood today. Experiential Learning Technology

8. Sharing razors or toothbrushes. Experiential Learning Technology

9. Sexual abstinence Experiential Learning Technology

10. Sharing drug needles. Experiential Learning Technology

11. Having many sexual partners. Experiential Learning Technology

12. Having many sexual partners.

13. Using condoms during sexual contact.

14. Kissing.

15. Caring for a person who has AIDs.

16. Coughing or sneezing.

17. Sexual contact with a needle drug user. Experiential Learning Technology

18. Receiving tattoos or piercing. Experiential Learning Technology

19. Receiving a blood transfusion today. Experiential Learning Technology

20. Receiving a blood transfusion before 1982. Experiential Learning Technology

21. Sexual relationship with a person you marry who is HIV negative. Experiential Learning Technology

22. Hugging a person who has AIDS. Experiential Learning Technology

23. Breastfeeding by a woman who is infected with HIV Experiential Learning Technology

24. Eating food prepared by an HIV infected cook. Experiential Learning Technology

25. Living with a person in your family who has AIDs. Experiential Learning Technology

26. Getting bitten by a mosquito which has just bitten an HIV infected person. Experiential Learning Technology

27. How is HIV / AIDs Spread? • Unprotected sexual contact with an infected person. • Piercing the skin with a needle used by an infected person. • Mother to baby through pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. • Blood to blood Experiential Learning Technology

28. How is HIV / AIDs NOT Spread? • Through the air • Through kissing • Casual contact with an infected person • By mosquitoes that have bitten an infected person • By sharing eating utensils with an infected person • By donating blood Experiential Learning Technology

29. How can you protect yourself against HIV / AIDS? • Do not have sexual contact until you’re married and you KNOW your spouse does not have it in their blood • Do not touch anyone else’s blood anytime! • Do not share “dirty” needles Experiential Learning Technology

30. We have no cure for HIV/AIDs. • You can be kept alive with many different “cocktail drugs” and new experimental drugs but quite often they are expensive! • As you live you are very susceptible to a lot of diseases that could take your life at any time! Experiential Learning Technology

31. What are your responsibilities? • Sexual activity? • Blood? • Drugs? • Knowledge? • Hormones? Experiential Learning Technology