HIV AIDS Management
By: Sharon Namarome
HIV is a virus that attacks the Human immune system.
The Immunodeficiency Virus targets the immune system and weakness people’s defence system against many infection and some types of cancer that can fought by healthy immune system.
Acquired Immune Deficiency Virus is the most advanced stage of HIV.
HIV can be transmitted in many ways such as: exchange of body fluids from infected people such blood, breast milk, semen and vaginal secretions as well as mother to child transmission during pregnancy and delivery.
There are various risk factors that tend to land the individuals into contracting the disease. This includes; having unprotected vaginal or anal sex, avoid sharing contaminated needles, syringes and other injecting equipment and drug solutions when injecting drugs, receiving unsafe blood transfusion and tissue transplantation, medical procedures that involve unsterilized cutting or piercing and experiencing accidental needle injuries especially among health workers.
HIV can be diagnosed in many ways including the use of self-tests, however confirmation tests must be done by trained and qualified health or community workers.
In as much as HIV is deadly, avoiding risk factors will help us stay safe from the disease. This includes using condoms during sexual intercourse, voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) as well elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT).
HIV is still a pandemic ever since it’s outbreak and therefore more measures need to be tightened up to ensure that the level of its spread is limited. A lot of responsibility on its prevention is laid on and individual, and therefore we all have to pull our socks to fight this pandemic.
There is still no cure of HIV/AIDS, but then it can be managed by using Antiretroviral drugs and antiretroviral therapies to suppress the viral replication within an individual body in order to strengthen and regain capacity to fight off opportunistic infections.
It should also be known that having HIV/AIDS is not the end of life because many have led long lives with the disease. Acceptance is very key and following every instruction from a qualified health care workers including taking balanced diet is among the best measures to boost immunity thus increasing survival.
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