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The Paradoxology
A team dedicated to raising the awareness of target audience between age 17 to 24 about AIDS.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids)
is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in humans, and similar viruses in other species (SIV, FIV, etc.). The late stage of the condition leaves individuals susceptible to opportunistic infections and tumors. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist to slow the virus' progression, there is no known cure. HIV, are transmitted through direct contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid containing HIV, such as blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, and breast milk. This transmission can come in the form of anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, or other exposure to one of the above bodily fluids.

Abstinence from casual sex
Because casual sexual transmission is the number one cause of HIV/AIDS, avoid having casual sex. Be very careful when you have been drinking alcohol, as you may not be able to think clearly and take unnecessary risks.


Be faithful to your partner
Once you have committed yourself to your life-long spouse/partner, remain faithful to him/her. If both uninfected partners remain faithful to each other, you are well-protected.


Comdom Usage
If you do have casual sex, using condoms consistently (during each and every sexual contact) and effectively can help to reduce your risk of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections. Although it does not offer 100% protection, condom use is the best protection against HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections during casual sexual intercourse.

Q1. What is the relation between AIDS and HIV?
A. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The HIV infection will gradually destroy the body's immune system.


Q2. What happens to a HIV-infected person?
A. A HIV-infected person may experience the following symptoms: fever sore throat muscular stiffness or aching headache diarrhoea swollen lymph glands fatigue rash of various types joint pain


Q3. How is HIV spread?
A. HIV is spread through sexual contact including oral, vaginal, and anal sex; via blood through transfusions or needle sharing; and from a pregnant woman to the foetus she is carrying or a nursing mother to her baby. The infection is NOT spread by casual contact such as hugging and touching, by inanimate objects such as dishes or toilet seats, or by mosquitoes.


Q4. How can we prevent HIV infection?
A. Persons who engage in casual sex and sex with prostitutes are advised to use condoms to reduce risk of catching HIV. Always practise safe sex by using a condom (although this does not give 100% protection from HIV). A person can also prevent HIV infection by having only one sexual partner, and being faithful to each other.


Q5. Is kissing someone with AIDS dangerous?
A very small quantity of the AIDS virus can get into saliva But it is rapidly desroyed by the fluid's digestive enyzmes. There has never been a documented case of HIV infection through saliva. So open-mouth kissing is considered a low-risk activity , but it is not adsolutely safe.

Q6. What kind of sex is most dangerous?
Being on the recieving end of anal intercourse carries the greatest risk, for heterosexuals as well as gays. Blood vessels in tissues lining the anus and rectum are easy to rupture, and that gives HIV a direct passageway to the bloodstream. The majority of sexual transmitted cases (as opposed to those from shared needles or tansfusions) probably result from anal intercourse. Vaginal intercourse is less risky; oral sex has the least risk.

Q7.Is the man or woman at greater risk in vaginal sex?
Women have higher odds of being infected by an HIV-positiv man than the reverse. Infected semen can remain in the vaginal and uterus for days. And the tissues of the vaginal, though toughher than those in the anus, can also be torn during the intercourse. A man, however, is exposed to vaginal secreting onlu during the sexual act itself. Unless he has genital ulcer or acut on the penis, the chances of being infected are small.

Q8. What is the best protection during intercourse?
Men should wear a lubricated latex condom. Most brands contain the spermicide nonoxynol-9, which also kills the AIDS virus. Lambskin condoms will not do th job since the virus can pass through the porous natural mambrane.

Q9. Does having sex during manstration increase the risk od infection?
Studies suggest that the virus may pass more readily from woman to man during that time. A condom provides protection, but it is probably safer to abstain from vaginal intercourse during a period.

Q10. How dangerous is oral sex?
Not as hazardous as intercourse, but nothing to be causl about. The partner performing oral sex is more at rish because he or she comes into contact with vaginal or seminal fluids the virus can pass from those fluids into cuts in the mouth. Those recieving oral sex are exposed only to saliva.

What precautions can be taken in oral sex?
MAles recieving it should wear a latex condom. When the woman is the recieving partner, a dental dam should be used.That is a square piece of latex placed over the vaginal area. Many U.S pharmacies now carry dams, a nonprescription item, on racks next to condoms.

Q11. At what point in a relationship is it reasonable to stop taking precautions against HIV infection?
Protection should be used for the first six months after starting a relationship with a new partner. Then each partner should be tested for HIV. If both test negative and the couple have a monogamous relationship and don't indulge in risky behaviour, such as using needles, then it's safe to discontinue using condoms as a protection against AIDS.

Q12. Is it risky to play sports or share athleic facilities with people who are infected?
The AIDS virus is not found in sweat. So health-club members need not worry aho last rode the exercise bike. But in contact sports where bloody injuries can occur-- such as boxing, football and basketball --it's possible for the virus to pass from one athlete to another. The risk appears to be extremely small: the Olympics' chief medical officer said last week that MAgic Johnson would be welcome to play in the 1992 Games.


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