Young Americans living with HIV are worse off -- and having much more risky sex -- since powerful AIDS drugs came along.
You might think that the drugs, known as highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART, would make life better for HIV-infected youths. You might think that when teens learn they have the AIDS virus, they would be more careful about unsafe sex and substance abuse. But you would be wrong.
Those that have taken the "HAART" drug are having more unprotective sex, using drugs, are more emotionally distress, and are living a "lower" quality of life.
Youths (before-HAART therapy} averaged 5-6 sex partners, having unprotected sex 27% of the time.After HAART became available, numbers changed, they had more than 10 sex partners and unprotected sex 42% of the time. They also were twice as likely to have sex with an (injection) drug user.
Don't any of them learn- or fear this deadly disease? Are We "leaving it" to stronger drugs to save us? As If That Where The Solution!
This Is Not A Way To live!
** American Journal of Health Behavior-February Issue
UCLA researcher Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD, and colleagues.
Info Based On 13 to 24 year olds living with HIV from:
Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Miami.
Just 13 ... and With Aids!? That Is Scarey!
You might think that the drugs, known as highly active antiretroviral therapy or HAART, would make life better for HIV-infected youths. You might think that when teens learn they have the AIDS virus, they would be more careful about unsafe sex and substance abuse. But you would be wrong.
Those that have taken the "HAART" drug are having more unprotective sex, using drugs, are more emotionally distress, and are living a "lower" quality of life.
Youths (before-HAART therapy} averaged 5-6 sex partners, having unprotected sex 27% of the time.After HAART became available, numbers changed, they had more than 10 sex partners and unprotected sex 42% of the time. They also were twice as likely to have sex with an (injection) drug user.
Don't any of them learn- or fear this deadly disease? Are We "leaving it" to stronger drugs to save us? As If That Where The Solution!
This Is Not A Way To live!
** American Journal of Health Behavior-February Issue
UCLA researcher Marguerita Lightfoot, PhD, and colleagues.
Info Based On 13 to 24 year olds living with HIV from:
Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Miami.
Just 13 ... and With Aids!? That Is Scarey!
But what about the snakes in the trees?
Know your STDs?
Concerns about AIDS in recent years have overshadowed other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) that also have serious health consequences, including sterility, cancer or death.
Some STDs can even make you more prone to the AIDS virus.
Learn how to safeguard your health and recognize signs of an STD.
http://www.thehealthpages.com/articles/ar-stds.html
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HOW TRUE- A NEW DRUG COMES ALONG THAT "SEMI CURES" AND THEY GO BACK TO THEIR UNHEALTHY HABITS. WHAT IS GOING ON WITH OUR YOUTH? VERY SCAREY!
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