What Everyone Should Know About AIDS (Lo Que Todos Deben Saber Sobre el SIDA)

Abstract:
[Archived] This brochure, available in both English and Spanish, briefly addresses several commonly asked questions about AIDS. These include: (1) What is AIDS? (2) Why persons should know about AIDS (3) What causes AIDS? (4) How a healthy immune system works, (5) How the AIDS virus is transmitted from one person to another, (6) Who gets AIDS, (7) effects of AIDS on the body, (8) steps to prevent the spread of AIDS and the HIV virus, (9) is there a cure for AIDS, (10) hope for prevention and cure for AIDS in the future, (11) questions and answers about AIDS, and (12) dispelling myths and fears about AIDS. The brochure states that the AIDS virus can be transmitted by sexual contact, sharing and infected needle, or, less often, through contact with blood and blood products. The brochure emphasizes that AIDS is not transmitted via casual contact. Readers are urged to avoid having sex with multiple or anonymous partners, partners at risk of AIDS, and partners who have sex with people at risk of AIDS.


Date Published: 1/1/1987

Pages: 15

Location Code: 4021