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HIV/ AIDS prevention

HIV/ AIDS prevention. Stephanie Vagie. HIV can be transmitted 3 ways:. Sexual transmission Transmission through blood Mother to child transmission For each route of transmission there are things that an individual can do to reduce or eliminate risk.

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HIV/ AIDS prevention

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  1. HIV/ AIDS prevention Stephanie Vagie

  2. HIV can be transmitted 3 ways: • Sexual transmission • Transmission through blood • Mother to child transmission For each route of transmission there are things that an individual can do to reduce or eliminate risk.

  3. By the end of 2003, about 1.1 million U.S. residents were living with HIV and ¼ of them did not know. Infections among men: 58% were acquired though male to male sexual contact. 20% though drug injection 6% through homosexual and drug involvement 16% through heterosexual sex Infections among women: 71% through Heterosexual sex 27% through drug use

  4. Who need HIV prevention? • Anyone can be come infected, it is important to educate everyone about HIV and AIDS. • It is especially important to educate children, women, men who have sex with men, injecting drug users, and sex users.

  5. Prevent through sexual transmission • Abstain from sex or delay first sex • Be faithful to one partner • Use condoms (male or female) consistently and correctly

  6. Transmission through blood • Needle exchange • distribute clean needles • safely dispose of used ones • Transfusion of infected blood • screening all blood supplies for the virus • heat-treating blood products where possible. • place some restrictions on who is eligible to donate HIV infections among injection drug users declined by approximately 80% between 1988 and 2006.

  7. medical procedures and other activities that involve contact with blood • tattooing and circumcision • routinely sterilising equipment. • dispose of equipment after each use

  8. Mother to child transmission • HIV can be transmitted from a mother to her baby during pregnancy, labour and delivery, and later through breastfeeding. • Prevent unwanted pregnancies • Use a course of antiretroviral drugs • Can use during pregnancy, labor, and give to new born baby • A caesarean section • reduces the baby’s exposure to its mother’s body fluids. • Do not breast feed • studies have shown that mothers with HIV or AIDS who get good prenatal care and regularly take antiviral drugs during their pregnancy now have less than a 5% chance of passing HIV to their babies.

  9. Health care workers • risk of HIV infection through contact with infected blood. • The most effective way for staff to limit this risk is to practice universal precautions. • act as every patient is potentially infected. • wash hands • use protective barriers for direct contact with blood and other body fluids.30

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