HIV+Info+DF

Wikipedia HIV AIDS site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV_AIDS

Magic Johnson has it. A virus so no cure. Can get it from needles. Affects your immune system. Can get from transferring blood, breast milk, semen and vaginal fluids. Condoms prevent transmission. Not 100% effective but close. Affects appetite. Wasting Disease. Get very skinny. Can't cure it but can treat it. In the US more males than females have it. In the US more males have it due to homosexual sex (60%) than other cause like needles or heterosexual sex etc. More than a million people in the US have HIV. Sometimes people have it and don't know it because they are asymptomatic. It is an STD.
 * HIV:**

How did it start in first person? How long can someone live with HIV? What does HIV stand for? Human Immunodeficiency Virus Is anyone working on a cure? What are they working on? Has anyone ever been cured? How do treatments work? How old are most people that get HIV? Are the number of cases in the US increasing or decreasing? What are the side effects of taking the treatments? Do you take medicine for the side effects? Are the treatments to prevent AIDS or after AIDS starts? Is it illegal to knowingly transmit HIV? What is the difference between HIV and AIDS? How do you know if you have it? Why does HIV affect the immune system?
 * Questions:**

Which STDs do you know the most about? The clap (gonorrhea), syphilis, herpes, genital warts (from HPV) Do you think your school provides you with enough & appropriate information about STDs? Too much not enough? How can the school do better? Prevention should be the main focousRemembering percentages Go to the nurse? Where else can you get information about STDs? reliable information? THE INTERNET, News, Mom, unreliable information? THE INTERNET Bill anyone younger Do you think STDs are an issue teenagers should know about? Duh Know more about? Duh yeah probably What should you/they know? Prevention Mostly (abstinence), what other than abstinence how do you protect? Do you think the average teenager, 5th grader :), knows more or less about STDs than you? MORE. What sorts of MISinformation are out there with respect to STDs? there not that bad. you can tell by the way people look, it can't happen to me Are there issues with respect to STDs that worry you? bother you? upset you? you don't know some one could pass it along and not know it, or know it and don't tell. the move sh'e too young,
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