We’ll walk you through all the basic steps and knowledge to get you started, and give some valuable advice to keep you on the right path.
Tremendous progress against AIDS over the past 15 years has inspired a global commitment to end the epidemic by 2030.
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Counselling
Learn how Pre and Post-test counselling sessions are being carried out and why it is important.
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Testing
Testing for HIV is the only way to know for sure if you have HIV. It is quick, easy, painless, confidential and almost always free. If you test regularly for HIV, and after every time you put yourself at risk, you can help keep yourself and your sexual partners healthy. It is always better to know.
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Prevention
HIV is spread only in certain body fluids from a person living with HIV. These fluids are blood, semen, pre-seminal fluids, vaginal fluids, rectal fluids, and breast milk. Today, more means than ever are available to prevent HIV. You can use approaches such as abstinence (not having sex/intercourse, vaginal, oral or anal), limiting your number of sexual partners, never sharing needles, and using condoms the right way every time you have sex. You may also be able to take advantage of newer HIV prevention medicines such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
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Treatment
Currently, there is no cure for HIV infection or AIDS. However, with the combined use of antiretroviral drugs and the drugs to prevent opportunistic infections, many people with HIV infection and AIDS have improved the quality of their lives and delayed or reversed the progression of HIV infection to AIDS.
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Support
Care and support are important to facilitate immediate access to treatment when a person is diagnosed with HIV; Apart from the medical support and treatment, people who are diagnosed with HIV would most probably need social and psychological support as many of them could be devastated with the diagnosis and need counselling and information about how to live their life positively with this new reality.
