Who is at greatest risk of HIV

The higher infection rates in women are often due to a lack of information about how to

How can you protect yourself

To prevention education, international organizations coordinate treatment efforts for people already living with HIV and AIDS. Efforts are being made to provide medicine to millions of

HIV AND AIDS

By: Narutaya

formation about how to protect themselves or, in some cases, a lack of power to t power themselves.

infected people in countries most affected by HIV and AIDS. Also, you can protect yourself from HIV by practicing abstinence, avoiding drugs, and avoiding contact with others blood and body fluid.

Priyapa Tanachporn

What is AIDS?
AIDS or Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. A disease in which there is a severe loss of the bodys cellular immu-

What causes AIDS?

AIDS is a disease that caused by a Virus called HIV or (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). When HIV enters the blood streams a person may become infected

What is HIV transmitted?

HIV enters the body through open cuts, sores or breaks in the skin; through mucous membranes, such as those inside the anus or vagina; or through direct

of the body s cellular immunity, greatly lowering the resistance to infection and malignancy. This susceptibility worsens as the disease progresses.

infected with it.

anus or vagina; or through direct injection. There are several ways by which this can happen. Also, IV can pass the virus on to someone else through the exchange of blood, semen, vaginal secretions, or breast milk.