News 24 Myths that many think of "AIDS"

Medicine has made significant progress in the fight against HIV / AIDS: infected people have been able to resist for many years without their condition becoming a danger, but many still have myths about the disease.

World AIDS Day is commemorated on December 1 of each year, amidst efforts to fight the disease in the absence of comprehensive treatment to date.

AIDS is a disease that affects the immune system of humans, which gradually reduces its effectiveness until a person is unable to cope with simple diseases that can lead to death.

The HIV virus can be transmitted by direct contact between a mucous membrane or blood circulation and between a body fluid containing the virus, such as blood, sperm, vaginal fluid, mucus or breast milk.

The virus can also be transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse in all its forms, by blood transfusion or by means of uninfected shaving tools, through infected syringes or fetus by the fetus.

The myths

According to Santé24, some misconceptions urge people to think that only certain groups are susceptible to HIV infection, both for homosexuals and many people, but this is not accurate.

The source explains that a person may be engaged in a sexual relationship with a person, but that she remains vulnerable to the serious virus, due to the risk of contagious transmission or sharp and medical tools. In some cases, innocent children are born with HIV without having a hand So

HIV-positive people can sometimes live many years in a normal state without symptoms. It is advisable for doctors to undergo occasional tests because the early detection of the virus can fight against the disease and react to the virus. Therefore, HIV transmission does not mean End of life.

Another misconception is that some people think that the poor are more vulnerable to this disease given the difficult circumstances in which they do not receive health education that encourages them to have safe sex.

Although most cases of HIV infection are reported in developing countries, doctors have warned that unprotected sex exposes everyone to infection, and that known means of prevention do not guarantee protection against HIV infection. 100%.

Some people think that AIDS clearly appears in the patient's body: when he sees a person losing a lot of weight, he becomes skinny and risks becoming a serious patient, which is a mistaken assumption.

While people think HIV-positive people can not get married or have sex with healthy people, doctors say that marriage is possible in any case because the means of protection are available nowadays. especially when the person has a low percentage of virus in the blood.