Five HIV Prevention Strategies

The HIV remains one of the deadliest disease in the worldwide. There are many factors facilitating the spread of HIV infection, but one of the core rationale behind the spread of HIV is lack of education and awareness about how HIV infection spread from infected person to uninfected person.

When you are informed, you are likely to engage in informed decisions like employing prevention methods.

The followings five (A,B,C,D & E) HIV prevention strategies provides various alternatives for people to decide.

(1). A - Abstain from having sex.
Simply no sex! This is the best way to prevent one from getting infected with HIV, yet it remains one of the fail concept. In real-life situations, no one abstains from having sexual intercourse.

If the first strategy is not working for you, then you have the second option to choose and that is B.

B - stands for ‘be faithful to one sexual partner’. This is the most effective prevention strategy. You can have regular sex with your wife, husband, girlfriends or boyfriends.

If you are unable to manage the above two preventions strategies, then, you have the next option that is C.

C - Use of condoms.
The condom remains a super prevention method. There is no better prevention tool than a condom. There are two types of condoms, male and female condoms (Read to ‘how to use condom’ in this blog).

Whenever you feel like having sex outside your faithful partners, it is advisable to use a condom to stay protected. The condom can prevent sexually transmitted infections including HIV and unwanted pregnancies.

Some things your need to lookout on condom are:

•Check the condom's expiry date.
•Do not carry the condom in your trouser pockets as sitting and up position will remove the condom's lubricants which will perhaps break during the sexual intercourse.
•Store the condom in a cool, dry and safe place.
•Use one condom to one act of sex.

D - Delay engaging in sex.
The delay is like abstain from having sex. This strategy is suitable for youths. The young people should delay sex before marriage. This days, delay sex idea only works in few people but it’s a fail strategy for large population. Hence, the selection of above two strategies are better alternative.

E - Education is key to staying free from HIV. Getting educated about HIV and AIDS infections will help us make educated sexual choices. If you are not informed, alone the journey of your life, temptations are not far and lack of education means, you are at the risk of HIV infection. So, get educated to safe life. It is also important that when we are informed, we can also help those around us as well.

TAKE HOME POINT:
• Everything rise and falls at your feet. You take it or leave it, it's a game of a choice.