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HIV/AIDS What Do You Know?
What is HIV? What is AIDS?
How is the disease transmitted?
In what part of the world is HIV/AIDS most prevalent?
Who is vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS?
"Helping kids understand about AIDS is the most important thing I do. Some kids like to pretend that it's not happening in the world. By letting them know what's
really going on, I might save someone's life." Hydeia L. Broadbent AIDS patient and activist.
HIV : the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus that attacks the cells of the immune system. HIV is transmitted through an exchange of bodily fluids (eg. exposure to infected
blood, during sexual activity with an infected individual, by sharing needles). It can also pass from an infected mother to her child. HIV is the virus that eventually causes AIDS.
AIDS : an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome diagnosis is made when symptoms that indicate the disease (primarily a decrease in the number of immune system cells in a person’s
bloodstream) are identified by a doctor in a HIV-positive person.
HIV/AIDS Terms to Know
CRC : the Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty that recognizes the human rights of the children, defined as persons up to the age of 18 years. It ensure the rights to survival,
development, protection and participation of all children without discrimination.
CSEC : “[Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children] comprises sexual abuse by the adult and remuneration in cash or kind to the child or a third person or persons. The child is treated as a sexual
object and as a commercial object.” (World Conference Against CSEC)
HIV/AIDS Terms to Know
Every minute five people around the world between the ages of 10 and 24 are infected with HIV.
There are 2.5 million children under the age of 15 living with the disease worldwide.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of new infections occurs among young people between the ages of 15 and 24.
Of the 3 million who died of AIDS in 2003, 500,000 were children.
The total number of children orphaned by AIDS – 13.2 million as of 2001 – is expected to more than double by 2010.
Source: UNAIDS. <www.unaids.org> (April 29, 2004).
Source: UNAIDS, “AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2003,” p.3.
Source: UNICEF, “Young People and HIV/AIDS: Opportunity in Crisis,” p.6 [publication on-line] www.unicef.org/publictions/pub_youngpeople_hivaids_en.pdf (February 17, 2004).
Source: UNAIDS, “AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2003,” p.3.
Source: UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS. “Fact Sheet.” 2001.
HIV/AIDS Basic Facts
HIV/AIDS Where are Children affected by HIV/AIDS? Source: UNAIDS/WHO
Most children under 15 who have HIV/AIDS are infected through their infected mothers – that is, through mother child transmission.
this occurs during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding after birth.
Sexual activity (the main route of disease transmission) starts in adolescence for most people worldwide.
Young people who are uninformed about HIV/AIDS transmission risk becoming infected.
![abhisheknervekar18@gmail.com
HIV/AIDS What Do You Know?
What is HIV? What is AIDS?
How is the disease transmitted?
In what part of the world is HIV/AIDS most prevalent?
Who is vulnerable to contracting HIV/AIDS?
"Helping kids understand about AIDS is the most important thing I do. Some kids like to pretend that it's not happening in the world. By letting them know what's
really going on, I might save someone's life." Hydeia L. Broadbent AIDS patient and activist.
HIV : the Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus that attacks the cells of the immune system. HIV is transmitted through an exchange of bodily fluids (eg. exposure to infected
blood, during sexual activity with an infected individual, by sharing needles). It can also pass from an infected mother to her child. HIV is the virus that eventually causes AIDS.
AIDS : an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome diagnosis is made when symptoms that indicate the disease (primarily a decrease in the number of immune system cells in a person’s
bloodstream) are identified by a doctor in a HIV-positive person.
HIV/AIDS Terms to Know
CRC : the Convention on the Rights of the Child is an international treaty that recognizes the human rights of the children, defined as persons up to the age of 18 years. It ensure the rights to survival,
development, protection and participation of all children without discrimination.
CSEC : “[Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children] comprises sexual abuse by the adult and remuneration in cash or kind to the child or a third person or persons. The child is treated as a sexual
object and as a commercial object.” (World Conference Against CSEC)
HIV/AIDS Terms to Know
Every minute five people around the world between the ages of 10 and 24 are infected with HIV.
There are 2.5 million children under the age of 15 living with the disease worldwide.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the majority of new infections occurs among young people between the ages of 15 and 24.
Of the 3 million who died of AIDS in 2003, 500,000 were children.
The total number of children orphaned by AIDS – 13.2 million as of 2001 – is expected to more than double by 2010.
Source: UNAIDS. <www.unaids.org> (April 29, 2004).
Source: UNAIDS, “AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2003,” p.3.
Source: UNICEF, “Young People and HIV/AIDS: Opportunity in Crisis,” p.6 [publication on-line] www.unicef.org/publictions/pub_youngpeople_hivaids_en.pdf (February 17, 2004).
Source: UNAIDS, “AIDS Epidemic Update: December 2003,” p.3.
Source: UN Special Session on HIV/AIDS. “Fact Sheet.” 2001.
HIV/AIDS Basic Facts
HIV/AIDS Where are Children affected by HIV/AIDS? Source: UNAIDS/WHO
Most children under 15 who have HIV/AIDS are infected through their infected mothers – that is, through mother child transmission.
this occurs during pregnancy, birth, or breastfeeding after birth.
Sexual activity (the main route of disease transmission) starts in adolescence for most people worldwide.
Young people who are uninformed about HIV/AIDS transmission risk becoming infected.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/af15-140811115316-phpapp01/85/Af15-hiv-1-320.jpg)
