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07/04/2013
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Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the early 1980s, much has changed. In 1985, the isolation of the etiologic agent of AIDS, termed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has emerged the first diagnostic test for the disease based on detection of antibodies against the virus. Since then many remedies were tested antiretroviral cocktails were created and there was at least one case of healing, the Berlin Patient Timothy Brown, followed by a few cases of "functional cure" in patients who have survived the disease without using drugs . Know some facts about the disease and other sexually transmitted listed by the website of the Ministry of Health
1 - Risk Group?
An outdated concept
Currently there is no distinction between risk group and non-group risk. At the beginning of the epidemic, because AIDS reaches mainly homosexual men, injecting drug users and hemophiliacs, they were at the time considered high-risk groups. Currently, there is talk of risk behavior and no longer in the risk group.
2 - Risk behavior
Attention and discipline
Are considered risky behavior have intercourse (heterosexual or homosexual) with an infected person without using condoms; sharing syringes and needles, especially in the use of injectable drugs; reutilizaçãode sharps with blood or fluids contaminated by HIV.
3 - Survival with HIV
Antiretroviral cocktail
Until the early 1990s, AIDS was considered a disease leading to death in a relatively short time, but with the advent of antiretroviral cocktail, infected people were living longer. This cocktail is able to maintain low blood viral load, which reduces the damage caused by HIV in the body and increases the life of the infected person.
4 - HIV external environment
A virus 'volatile'
It is estimated that the AIDS virus can live for about one hour outside the human body. There are a variety of physical agents such as heat and chemicals (bleach, glutaraldehyde, ethanol, hydrogen peroxide) that can make it down quickly.
5 - STD symptoms
No reactions in the body
Many people can become infected with a sexually transmitted disease and has no reactions in the body for weeks, even years. The only way of prevention is to use condoms in all sexual relations and regularly search the health service to perform routine examinations.
6 - Condoms and AIDS
Latex waterproof
In a study conducted at the National Institutes of Health in the United States, stretched latex condom, extending it two thousand times the electron microscope and found to have no pore. Another study examined 40 brands of condoms most used worldwide, expanding them 30,000 times (magnification level that enables viewing HIV) and showed no pores. Because it is possible to state that condoms are impermeable to both the AIDS virus as sexually transmitted diseases.
Source: The Globe - Online
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