Question

After learning about the overview of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. and prevention strategies, you know that HIV testing is considered a best practice to prevent the transmission of HIV.

How might HIV testing reduce stigma associated with HIV?

And how might you approach this with your future clients as a health practitioner?

Answer 1

HIV or Human immunodeficiency virus is a class of lentivirus which causes HIV infection and AIDS( acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) which results in progressive failure of the immune system and therefore put its host at greater risk of life-threatening opportunistic infection and even cancer thrive. The transmission of this virus occurs from one host to another via unsafe sexual activity if anyone of partner is affected by HIV, through blood transfusion and from HIV infected mother to its baby.

While our scientists are trying to find the cure to eradicate this virus based on the knowledge, we gathered from the year of research, it is considered best practice to have an HIV test to prevent the transmission of HIV.

Today HIV stigma is considered as the greatest barrier to the effective response to the HIV endemic and its prevention major. People living with HIV/AIDS mostly suffer from discrimination and many time become subject to prejudice by there milieu. Such stigma, bigotry, and discrimination duress even HIV false positive people to live in recluse, therefore many people have discouraged to reveal their HIV status and may result in indeliberate transmission of HIV to others.

HIV test helps to find out if a test taker has this virus and therefore, can prevent transmission of HIV. He or she can be faithful to their partners while having an intimate relationship. If a mother is infected with HIV can save their children from getting infected with same as today there are medicines which can prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to their newborn.

As a health practitioner, I will ask my future client to have HIV test. As the transmission of this virus is not limited to only unsafe sexual activity, and it will generally take much longer time to show its first sign of deteriorating stage. Knowing the status of HIV at its initial stage will help them to keep themselves healthy to prevent any accumulation of opportunistic infection.