Unit 4 – HIV, STD & Pregnancy Prevention Lesson 6: HIV – Get the facts

Healthy Behavior Outcomes Be sexually abstinent. Engage in behaviors that prevent or reduce sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV infection. Utilize appropriate health services to promote sexual health.

Bell Ringer Write 3 things you have heard or read about in HIV or AIDS Journal

Motivation What is a situation in which a person might do something risky because he or she didn’t know all the facts? What could happen? What might some of the negative consequences be?

What is HIV? HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus It’s the virus that causes AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HIV lives in the semen, vaginal fluids, blood, and breast milk of a person with HIV. It can be passed from one person to another through these infected fluids HIV damages the body’s immune system. Over time, the body can no longer fight off other diseases and infections

What is HIV? Some people with HIV stay healthy a long time Medicines can help people stay healthy longer As HIV progresses, the person may get sick more often A person with HIV is diagnosed with AIDS when his or her immune system can no longer fight off certain kinds of diseases. There is no cure for HIV, but there are ways to keep from getting it

Workbook Fact or Myth? Complete page 18 in Workbook Let’s see how much you already know about HIV Turn to page 19 in Workbook – read aloud as a class Work with a partner to go over the answers to Fact or Myth? Change any answers based on what we just read

HIV HIV is passed through infected blood, semen, and vaginal fluids Sexual activity Share needles to inject drugs or for other reasons Can’t get HIV unless one of these infected fluids from someone who has HIV gets into your body Can be passed from a mother during pregnancy or after birth through breast milk Can take medicines to reduce the chances of it being passed to the baby

HIV People don’t get HIV from day-to-day contact Touching Hugging Kissing Drinking from the same glass Can’t get it from toilet seats or mosquito bites Safe to be friends with someone who has HIV

HIV You can’t tell if someone has HIV People with HIV may look and feel well for a long time They may not even know they have HIV Only way to know for sure is to get tested People with HIV may have flu-like symptoms when they’re first infected Then they may not notice symptoms for years As HIV slowly starts to damage more of the immune system, people may have fever, chills, a rash, sweating at night, achy muscles, a sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, and sores in the mouth

HIV You can protect yourself The best way to avoid sexual transmission of HIV is to be abstinent If person chooses to have sex, they can stay safer if they have sex only with on lifetime partner who doesn’t have HIV or share needles and who has sex only with them Use latex or plastic condoms every time Never share needles with anyone for any reason

Risk Cards With your partner, look at your card Think about whether doing this behavior would put a person at risk of getting HIV Decide how much risk the behavior carries TAPE your card where you think it belongs on the risk continuum

Close With a partner, list 3 things you learned in this lesson