World AIDS day

[pocki]

Today, as you understand, it's World AIDS Day.
I just want to give you this message:

Please. Stay protected.
When you have sex, wear a condom. Always.
And never ever share needles if you're a drug addict.

And everyone, HIV can't travel through air or survive outside the body for long. So you don't risk getting infected by hugging or talking to someone who's HIV-positive. You can only get the virus through blood or other body fluids. No, if an HIV-positive person happen to sneeze on you or cries on your shoulder you wont get infected. It only exist in high amounts in sexual fluids (like sperm) and in blood. And the infected fluid needs to get in contact with your blood system which only happens through mucus membranes or intravenously.

HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus, and is, as the name states, the very virus.
A person can be HIV-positive = have the virus in their body (be infected) but still live without any symptoms. That's why it's so important to get tested if you think you've been exposed, like for example of unprotected sex. Cause you can still transmit it to others. And you will also need medication to slow down the course tomwards AIDS.
AIDS stands for Aquired ImmunoDeficiency Syndrome. AIDS and HIV is -not- the same thing. AIDS is the state of illness as a cause of the virus. So a person that's HIV-positive doesn't have to have AIDS.

Every 12th second (yes, second) a person die as a cause of AIDS. That is 5 people per minute. And of these five, one is a child. We need to fight this disease, this pandemic.
Please, show your support. Wear a red ribbon and donate to the cause or volounteer.

If you wonder anything, feel free to ask me. I know quite a lot from working with it in school etc, and it's the main cause I burn and fight for.


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Comments

[zadeira.livejournal.com]

thanks for the education-post. Really I found that interesting.
And when you told the thing about 8 persons die every minute I was like "WHAAAT?". 8 persons per minute?? Thats so damn crazy. I thought like 8 persons a day or maybe, if I should exaggerate a bit, like 8 per hour. But minute? Goddamn, that's bad!

[pnr.livejournal.com]

you're welcome ^^
I can hold a long education talk with you whenever you want dear ^^

I'm sorry, I was wrong. It's only 5 (only? psch, no. But 5), it's insane, and one of them is a child.
It was something like that *checks speech*
såhär började mitt tal i Sv C:
"Var 12e sekund dör en människa pga aids. Varje minut, ett barn."
typ hej fånga lyssnarna.
Fatta, var tolfte -sekund-!
jag slutade med:
"Under tiden jag pratat nu har 20 människor dött i aids. 4 av dem, var barn."