Author: Dean Preston

How can someone prevent HIV/AIDs?

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How can someone prevent HIV/AIDS?

Research Question: How can someone prevent HIV/AIDs?

Thesis: HIV/AIDS can be eradicated in Africa with the use of condoms, being tested early, and the use of antiretroviral drugs.

  • Topic Sentence #1: The use of condoms can help stop the spread of HIV by, using condoms consistently and correctly, the use of alcohol can increase the chance of having unsafe sex, having anal, vaginal, or oral sex without a condom can and will spread HIV.
  • Topic Sentence #2: Early testing is effective and easy by having a 10 to 15 year time window before HIV turns into AIDs, knowing that the HIV virus is in you through routine testing to see if you need medication while the virus is weak, changing actions that reduce the chance of getting or spreading HIV.
  • Topic Sentence #3: Antiretroviral drugs help stop HIV by being very effective if used early, banning the use of antiretroviral drugs in hospitals dramatically increased the infected poll, thus showing that the drugs aid the fight, not using antiretroviral drugs can result in: fever, headache, muscle aches, rash, chills, sore throat, mouth or genital ulcers, swollen lymph glands, mainly on the neck, Joint pain, night sweats, and diarrhea, and in 2005 around 200,000 South Africans receiving medications for HIV/AIDS, leaving 5.5 million untreated.

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