AIDS Prevention

The only way to prevent AIDS from developing is to not become infected with HIV. It is not possible to determine if or when a person who has HIV will contract AIDS and the only treatment that can be offered are medical drugs that slow down the rate at which the virus attacks your immune system. Regardless, the HIV is still deteriorating your immune system throughout treatment so the only real question here is not AIDS prevention but how to prevent HIV.

HIV is primarily spread through sexual intercourse and this is the main cause that people are tackling today. Religiously devout people such as Roman Catholics outwardly reject the use of condoms as a sinful apparatus for two reasons. The first being premarital sex is sinful for their religion and the second being that it actively prevents life from taking shape from the act of sex which leads on to the idea that sex is purely a hedonistic pursuit for those who use condoms.

Although abstinence is an ideal method for AIDS prevention it is entirely unfeasible and many AIDS charities encourage the use of condoms despite the controversy behind them. These efforts have been hampered over the years in developing countries such as Kenya where even the first lady has been known to discourage and slander the use of condoms even claiming them to be the cause of the spread of AIDS. We can only presume this refers to the fear that condoms encourage sexual activity however, if you use a condom there should be no fear of transmitting HIV although this is never 100% guaranteed.