March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. It is a day to recognize the special risks HIV/AIDS poses for women and girls, and to raise awareness of the disease's increasing impact on them. We encourage women and girls to know their HIV status and get tested for HIV.
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I encourage EVERY one of my friends and family to go get tested and know your status...
If you THINK you are at risk, go get tested. If you are going to engage in sexual activity, be safe and use protection for EVERYthing, EVERYthing? EVERYthing!! Or better yet, be abstinent! Abstinence is a state of mind, not just a state of being... Check some of these preventative measures....
- Avoid injected (intravenous) drugs. If you use injected drugs, avoid sharing needles or syringes. Always use new needles. (Boiling or cleaning them with alcohol does not guarantee that they're sterile and safe.)
- Avoid oral, vaginal, or anal contact with semen from HIV-infected people.
- Avoid unprotected anal intercourse, since it causes small tears in the rectal tissues, through which HIV in an infected partner's semen may enter directly into the other partner's blood.
- If you have sex with people who use injected drugs, always use protection.
- If you have sex with many people or with people who have multiple partners, always use protection.
- People with AIDS or who have had positive HIV antibody tests can pass the disease on to others. They should not donate blood, plasma, body organs, or sperm. They should not exchange genital fluids during sexual activity.
- Safer sex behaviors may reduce the risk of getting the infection. There is still a slight risk of getting the infection even if you practice "safe sex" with the use of condoms. Abstinence is the only sure way to prevent sexual transmission of the virus.
- Use protection when having sexual contact with people you know or suspect of being infected with HIV. Even better, use protection for ALL sexual contact.
Take this survey to assess your risk...
Assessment
Check out these testing sites as well...
Your STD help
Columbus AIDS Task Force
I will be going to get my test done sometime this week so I can get my PAPERS lol
Lemme know if you guys are tryna roll with me!
PS I found out that they have 20 min swab tests that give you the results on-the-spot! How convenient is it that you won't be stuck waiting and worrying about your results??!!
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