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Funding for HIV/AIDS education decreases
Researchers state that increase in disesase cases due to lack of knowledge
Issue date: 3/20/07 Section: News
The government does not allocate funding for this type of education.
In some cases, the Ohio government has allowed it in places such as the Cleveland and Canton City school districts - areas with students who have higher pregnancy rates and are at a higher risk for sexually transmitted infections.
"Some teenagers and adults don't know the basics of anatomy," Holtz said. "They don't know how diseases are transmitted."
To help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, always use a condom or dental dam, she suggests.
"Everyone knows not to have unprotected sex, but they don't know what that means," Holtz said.
Safe sex involves having no contact with any bodily fluids in the eyes, mouth, nose, genitals or anal areas.
Communication is also very important in the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
"Talk about it," Holtz said.
There is no second chance with this virus. Once a person gets the disease, it will always be present in the body.
There is no cure.
In some cases, the Ohio government has allowed it in places such as the Cleveland and Canton City school districts - areas with students who have higher pregnancy rates and are at a higher risk for sexually transmitted infections.
"Some teenagers and adults don't know the basics of anatomy," Holtz said. "They don't know how diseases are transmitted."
To help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, always use a condom or dental dam, she suggests.
"Everyone knows not to have unprotected sex, but they don't know what that means," Holtz said.
Safe sex involves having no contact with any bodily fluids in the eyes, mouth, nose, genitals or anal areas.
Communication is also very important in the prevention of HIV/AIDS.
"Talk about it," Holtz said.
There is no second chance with this virus. Once a person gets the disease, it will always be present in the body.
There is no cure.
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