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    Medical Technology and Bioethics: Emmanuel Quiopa Ii-Bs Met

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    This document provides information about HIV and AIDS. It defines HIV as a virus that attacks the immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to life-threatening infections and diseases if left untreated. AIDS is described as the final stage of untreated HIV infection, where the immune system is severely weakened. The document outlines that HIV is primarily spread through unprotected sex, sharing needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. Regular testing and treatment can help people with HIV maintain health and prevent transmission to others.

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    This document provides information about HIV and AIDS. It defines HIV as a virus that attacks the immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to life-threatening infections and diseases if left untreated. AIDS is described as the final stage of untreated HIV infection, where the immune system is severely weakened. The document outlines that HIV is primarily spread through unprotected sex, sharing needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. Regular testing and treatment can help people with HIV maintain health and prevent transmission to others.

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    AIDS PREVENTION

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    Prevention

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    This document provides information about HIV and AIDS. It defines HIV as a virus that attacks the immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to life-threatening infections and diseases if left untreated. AIDS is described as the final stage of untreated HIV infection, where the immune system is severely weakened. The document outlines that HIV is primarily spread through unprotected sex, sharing needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. Regular testing and treatment can help people with HIV maintain health and prevent transmission to others.

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    Medical Technology and Bioethics: Emmanuel Quiopa Ii-Bs Met

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    This document provides information about HIV and AIDS. It defines HIV as a virus that attacks the immune system, leaving a person vulnerable to life-threatening infections and diseases if left untreated. AIDS is described as the final stage of untreated HIV infection, where the immune system is severely weakened. The document outlines that HIV is primarily spread through unprotected sex, sharing needles, and from mother to child during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding. Regular testing and treatment can help people with HIV maintain health and prevent transmission to others.

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    Medical Technology

    and Bioethics

    Emmanuel Quiopa
    II-BS MeT
    You may not know,
    What is HIV?
    FACTS How Is HIV Spread?
     HIV is a virus that attacks the immune sys-

    because you dis- tem, our body’s natural defense against ill-
    ness.
    HIV is spread primarily through contact with the fol-
    lowing body fluids:

    courage… so If HIV is left untreated, a person’s immune


    system will get weaker and weaker until it can
    no longer fight off life-threatening infections
    Blood (including menstrual blood)
    Semen (“cum”) and other male sexual fluids
    ("precum")

    come up and know and diseases.


    Testing regularly for HIV means you can get
    Vaginal fluids
    Breast milk
    antiretroviral treatment if you need it and stay
    your status healthy.
    AIDS describes a set of symptoms and illness-
    For people living with HIV, taking HIV drugs and re-
    ducing their viral load makes these fluids far less
    es that happen at the final stage of HIV infec- likely to transmit HIV to others. This is called HIV
    tion, if left untreated. treatment as prevention. If a person living with HIV
    takes HIV drugs and maintains an undetectable viral
    load (too low to be measured with standard tests),
    What is AIDS? their semen or vaginal fluids will not pass HIV on to
    Basic facts about AIDS their sexual partner. The most common ways HIV is
    AIDS stands for acquired immune deficiency spread from person-to-person is
    syndrome; it’s also called advanced HIV in- through unprotected sex (no condoms, other barri-
    fection or late-stage HIV. ers, or treatment-as-prevention methods
    AIDS is a set of symptoms and illnesses that used), sharing needles used for injecting drugs,
    develop as a result of advanced HIV infection and mother-to-child (during pregnancy, birth, or
    which has destroyed the immune system. breast-feeding).
    Fewer people develop AIDS now because
    treatment for HIV means that more people are
    staying well.
    Although there is no cure for HIV, with the
    right treatment and support, people living
    with HIV can enjoy long and healthy lives. To
    do this, it’s especially important to commit to
    taking treatment correctly.

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