The document discusses AIDS/HIV and its impact on health education. It defines AIDS as acquired immune deficiency syndrome and HIV as the human immunodeficiency virus. HIV damages white blood cells, making those infected highly susceptible to infections. The virus was discovered in 1983-1984. Over 1.3 million adults and 100,000 children worldwide had AIDS by 1993. There is no cure yet, but preventive measures like safe sex practices and screening blood can help reduce transmission.

1. AIDS/HIV IN HEALTH EDUCATION
Dr. S. Prakash
Principal
Thiagarajar College of Preceptors
Madurai.

2. AIDS,THE KILLER DISEASE
 AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome
 HIV - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
 AIDS is a collection of symptoms and infections resulting from
the specific damage to the immune system (Macrophages and
Lymphocytes) caused by the HIV in humans.

3.  The person who are with it becomes a prey for all
types of infection-attack and remains continuously
sick of one disease or other.

4. DISCOVERY OF AIDS
 AIDS causing virus was discovered by
Luc Montagnier of France in 1983 and
Robert Keler of America in 1984 which
later named as HIV.

5.  No medicine has been invented so far to treat
this disease.
 More than one crore thirty lakh adults and
ten lakh children have been afflicted with
AIDS till 1993.
 So far eight lakh people belonging to 107
countries have died of AIDS.
 In India, cases of AIDS have been detected
for the first time in 1986 at Chennai and
Mumbai.
 India and Thailand are declared as countries
affected most by this disease.

6. Graph Representing People
Living with AIDS.

7. METHOD OF SPREAD OF
AIDS
 90% of incidence of AIDS had been due to
unsafe sex and homosexual relation.
 Transmission of HIV through blood transfusion
from HIV affected individual to normal person.
 Through needle and syringe used by affected
person.
 From pregnant women to the foetus they
carry.

8. CHART REPRESENTATION BY RECENT SURVEY OF
METHOD OF SPREAD OF AIDS.

9. HIV is found in liquid states,
mostly in
WOMB SEMON BLOOD BREAST MILK

10. HIV isnot transmitted through:
SALIVA TEARS SWEAT
Which are secreted by human body.

11.  If a person is tested positive for HIV, he/she is
a HIV infected person.

12. PREVENTIVE MEASURES
Research findings reveal that
No medicine has been discovered so far to treat AIDS, but
preventive measures could be adopted to safe guard one-self
against this dreadful disease.
Many medicines have been discovered to treat diseases at the
initial stage and hence a patient can live a painless life till death.
Indian government has established the National AIDS Control
Organisation (NACO) to control this disease.

13. Preventive measures to safeguard
against AIDS:
 Disciplined sexual life.
 Examining blood before transfusing it to a patient.
 Using disposable syringe and needle.

14. BACTERIA AND VIRUS

15.  Among these BACTERIA and VIRUS are
unicellular organisms.
BACTERIAL
INFECTIONS
VIRAL
INFECTION
Tuberculosis,
Typhoid, Diptheria,
Cholera etc.,
Polio, Rabies,
Mahengities (Brain
Fever), Smallpox,
Jaundice, AIDS etc.,

16. BACTERIA virus
It grows independently in a
medium.
It do not grow independently in
any medium.
It could be cultured
independently in an appropriate
medium.
In laboratories virus could be
grown in rats, rabbits, certain
categories of monkeys,egg of
hens etc.,
It will take necessary food from
medium it grows.
It depends on other organism for
their survival and growth.
These could be destroyed
through the application of
ANTIBIOTIC.
Attempting to destroy virus
through use of anti-biotic leads
to greater damage on human cell
more than virus.

17.  Virus get embedded into tissue cell by
transferring their cell nucleus to human
cell.
 When human cells multiple along with
them virus cells also get multiplied.

18.  Virus use human cell as the shield.
 This makes our task of discovering a
medicine to treat aids very difficult.
 Immunisation drugs are available now for
diseases like rabies, brain fever, jaundice
etc., they could used to develop the
appropriate resistance against the
respective diseases in human bodies, thus
saving the people.
 But no immunisation drug is available till
date against AIDS.

19. Apprehensions of AIDS
 It is a dreaded disease sure to kill victim.
 Day by day the number of people becoming
prey to AIDS increases.
 People are not aware much of the way in
which AIDS spreads.
 This diseases can attack any one.
 It occurs mainly due to carelessness and
indifference.
 The most important of above all is that so far
no drug has been discovered to treat AIDS.