< PreviousLiving with HIV Dealing with HIV Stigma _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ Eat Healthy ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Stay Active ___________________________ ___________________________ Don’t Smoke ___________________________ ___________________________ ___________________________ Take Medications ___________________________ ___________________________ Staying Healthy with HIV www.newpathlearning.com © Copyright NewPath Learning. All Rights Reserved. 94-6897 Source: National Institutes of Health; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.Is there a vaccine against HIV? Currently, no preventive HIV vaccines have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but research is under way. A person must be enrolled in a clinical trial to receive a preventive HIV vaccine. How can I reduce my risk of getting HIV? Anyone can get HIV, but you can take steps to protect yourself from HIV infection. • Get tested and know your partner’s HIV status before you have sex. • Get tested and treated for other STDs (sexually transmitted disease). Having an STD can increase the risk of becoming infected with HIV. • Use condoms correctly every time you have sex. • Limit your number of sexual partners. The more partners you have, the more likely you are to have a partner with HIV or another STD. • Talk to a health care provider about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). PrEP is an HIV prevention option for people who don’t have HIV but who are at high risk of becoming infected with HIV. • Don’t inject drugs . But if you do, use only sterile drug injection equipment and never share equipment with others. HIV Prevention The Basics of HIV Prevention World AIDS Day World AIDS Day was initiated on December 1, 1988 . It is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of AIDS, caused by the spread of HIV around the world. It is also a day of mourning for those who have died of the disease. National HIV Testing Day was first observed on June 27, 1995 in the United States. NHTD is a day to encourage people to get tested for HIV, know their status, and get linked to care and treatment. Lowering the Risk of Transmitting HIV If you have HIV, there are many actions you can take to prevent transmitting it to others. The most important is taking HIV medicine (called antiretroviral therapy, or ART) as prescribed. If you take HIV medicine as prescribed and get and keep an undetectable viral load, you can stay healthy and have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative sex partner. HIV is spread only in certain body fluids fluids including blood, semen, vaginal fluids, and breast milk. In the United States, HIV is spread mainly by having sex or sharing injection drug equipment, such as needles, with someone who has HIV. www.newpathlearning.com © Copyright NewPath Learning. 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