Hello Everyone,
This is my first time blogging, but I am looking forward to the experience. For my first blog I decided to talk about prevention. Prevention is extremely important to me because this is the best way to decrease the spread of the disease. I am not as knowledgeable about HIV/AIDS as I would like to be. I am certain that I will be a changed person after this course. I am 21 years old and I have alot of friends who do not practice safe sex. If more people were aware of their risk of contracting the disease I am certain that they would become more active in their own health. The statistics are extremely startling and this should be a wake up call. Prevention consists of safe sex and getting tested. I am still trying to convince many people I know to go and get tested. I become frustrated when they give me the excuse that their partner was tested so they do not need to. Spreading the knowledge about HIV is the best way to increase preventive care.
Prevention is a wide open topic, Kiersten. You may want to limit yourself to a particular age group. Prevention isn't easy. You might want to research prevention to see what has been tried already with or without success and pass on those tidbits to the rest of the class. Just because your partner was tested six months ago doesn't mean they haven't exposed themselves to the virus since then. Condoms are a person's best friend, no matter how awkward they are to use.
ReplyDeleteI look forward to longer blogs from you and your Did You Know tidbits about prevention.