Top 10 Myths about HIV....and the reality

Many myths about HIV and AIDS have contributed to prejudice and stigma about the disease. Myths about HIV are very dangerous. They can cause you to be afraid of something that is not dangerous. And they can make you feel like something is not dangerous when it really is! So be careful. Sometimes seemingly well-informed or well-meaning people give out wrong information.
 
 

Testing For HIV

National HIV Testing Day (NHTD) is an annual campaign produced by the National Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA-US) to encourage at-risk individuals to receive voluntary HIV counseling and testing.
 
 

Breastfeeding and HIV transmission

A large study of mothers and children carried out in Zimbabwe lends further support to the view that it is probably better for mothers with HIV infection to breastfeed exclusively rather than engage in mixed feeding, as children exposed to a mixture of breastfeeding and other forms of feeding are more than four times as likely to have become infected with HIV at the age of six months when compared to infants exclusively breastfed.
 
 

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Fast and Easy HIV Testing

Tests that can rapidly detect HIV are an important advancement in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Will these fast and easy tests lead to greater screening?
 
 

Combination Therapy for HIV Disease

When people with HIV have good access to health care, they can expect to live long and well. That's because doctors have learned to combine drugs into regimens that successfully attack the virus at multiple places in its life cycle.
 
 

When the HIV Body Wastes Away

People with HIV can experience many changes in their bodies. Listen to experts explain why people with HIV lose body weight and muscle mass and what they can do to gain it back.