AIDS Awareness

AIDS has always had a stigma that does not go away. When someone is diagnosed there are questions that come to mind at once. "How did you get it" "How sick are you" "Can I catch it" are just a few statements that come to mind. In the United States it is estimated that there are 1.2 million residents that are over the age of 13 living with AIDS.

Because of the stigma of AIDS many do not know or want to know much about it. That in itself is a problem as education is the key step to prevent spread of the disease. Contacting HIV / AIDS is a question in most minds. The top answers to that question are:

• unprotected sex
• from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding
• injecting drugs with a needle that has infected blood in it
• infected blood donations or organ transplants 
• a healthcare worker who gets the blood of an infected patient inside their body.

Now that we know how HIV / AIDS can be contacted how do we protect ourselves??

The goal is to find a cure. Research is currently being conducted on the search for a cure. National AIDS Awareness Month helps get the word out, fix some misunderstandings and push for research for a cure.

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