Honoring Our Heritage, Healing Our People: Celebrating National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

This day is celebrated on March 20 every year to encourage American Indians, native Hawaiians, and Alaska natives to get HIV tested and educate them about practicing HIV prevention methods. Today organizations and individuals are focusing on HIV/AIDS-associated awareness and fundraising efforts so that they can get an early diagnosis and treatment. HIV treatment has improved a lot, and with new treatment methods and medications like Taffic (Bictegravir 50mg) life expectancy of HIV positive person look optimistic.

Ways to take action and educate about HIV/AIDS

As per CDC, one out of eight people does not know about their HIV status, which delays their treatment process. As per researchers, around 37.7 million people are HIV-positive worldwide. Statistics say that around 1.2 million people are HIV-positive in the United States. The following guide will help you know about the ways to take action and educate people about HIV or AIDS.

Know about HIV transmission risk

HIV can spread from one person to another by exchanging bodily fluids like

• Pre-seminal fluid
• Semen
• Blood
• Vaginal fluids
• Rectal fluid, etc.

The best way to prevent HIV transmission is to practice safer sexual intercourse and avoid sharing needles, razors and blades. It is important to educate others about practicing safer methods to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections. Always go for a reputable shop that uses sterilized equipment if you are opting for tattooing or piercing.

Taking prep

Prevention tools such as prEP, along with HIV medications, help individuals lower the viral load in their blood and make them reach an undetectable level. A person reaching an undetectable viral load does not transmit HIV to others and has fewer symptoms. Lifesaving drugs like Tenofovir Alafenamide 25mg and HIV treatment methods are not known to all. This is why people are participating in National Native HIV Or AIDS Awareness Day to remove the stigma associated with it and take proper action.

Get Tested

You can get involved in clinical trials and research studies for HIV or AIDS to help people overcome the fear, confusion, or depression issues associated with HIV or AIDS. Knowing about your current HIV status will help you to get an early diagnosis and get treated at an early stage before your condition worsens and progresses to AIDS

Volunteer with your local HIV or aid center

You can volunteer and become an active member of your local HIV or AIDS center to help people fight against this life-threatening disease, educate them about taking the right measures to eliminate this virus, and live a long life. You can find an HIV or AIDS service provider near your location and check out their websites to participate in their volunteering tasks.

Raise awareness on social media platforms.

You can spread awareness about HIV stigma by conversing on social media platforms and sharing posts about HIV or AIDS awareness online. Today scientists are making astonishing progress in medical science to know about the underlying cause of AIDS or HIV. You can make others know how to combat HIV by awareness through online campaigns.

Taking HIV treatment will help to reduce the viral load.

Taking effective medications like Emtricitabine 200mg after being diagnosed with HIV will help you to clear this virus from your system and reduce the viral load from your bloodstream. This way, your immune system will get a chance to recover from the virus and become strong enough to fight against infections. The main goal of ART is to make the HIV virus untransmittable or undetectable.