Questions and Answers about HIV/AIDS
Questions and Answers about HIV/AIDS
Table of Contents
Part I: Questions and Answers for Young People and Students . . . . . 1
1. What is the history of HIV/AIDS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. What is the difference between HIV and AIDS? . . . . . . . . . . .2
3. What should I know about HIV prevention and sex? . . . . . . . . 3
4. What should I know about HIV prevention and substance use? . .4
5. If I need to write a school report about HIV /AIDS,
where can I find information and statistics? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. What is the New York State Youth Sexual Health Plan? . . . . . . .5
7. How can I get involved in helping others and being a leader? . . .5
8. Will we ever see an end to the HIV/ AIDS epidemic? . . . . . . . .5
Part II: Questions and Answers About HIV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
Transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7
1. How is HIV transmitted? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. What are the ways that HIV cannot be transmitted? . . . . . . . . .8
3. Can a woman living with HIV pass the virus on to her baby? . . . .8
4. What does Undetectable = Untransmittable
(otherwise known as U=U) mean? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8
Prevention . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. What can a person do to avoid getting HIV
through sexual behavior? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
6. How can a person get condoms to prevent HIV? . . . . . . . . . 10
7. What can a person do to avoid HIV through drug use? . . . . . . 11
8. How can a person who injects drugs or other substances
obtain sterile injection equipment? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
9. What can people who are living with HIV do to avoid passing
the virus to others? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10. What can I do if I think I was exposed to HIV? . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
11. Why is HIV testing important? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
12. How does HIV testing work? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
13. Where can I get an HIV test? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
14. How often should a person be tested? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
15. What does it mean to have a negative test result? . . . . . . . . 14
16. What does it mean to have a test that results in an
HIV diagnosis? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Importance of Health Care and Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
17. How does HIV affect a person¡¯s health? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
18. What is the treatment for HIV? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
19. How can a person get help paying for HIV treatment? . . . . . . 17
20. How can I tell if my HIV treatment is working? . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Human Rights, Stigma and Confidentiality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
21. Are there laws in New York State that protect the
confidentiality and human rights of people living with HIV? . . . 18
22. What can we do to reduce stigma against people living
with HIV? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Part I: Questions and Answers
for Young People and Students
There are many reasons for a young person to want information about
HIV. Maybe you have a school project to complete, or maybe a friend or
family member has been affected by HIV. Maybe you realize it¡¯s important
to know about HIV because you are responsible for your own health and
sexual health. Whatever your reason for wanting to know more about HIV,
this document is a good starting place.
1. What is the history of HIV/AIDS?
1981 ¨C 1985
In 1981, an unknown illness that affected gay men was reported in
hospitals in Los Angeles and New York City. The illness was first called
GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) and many people were dying from
it. Soon the name was changed to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome). In the very early years, there were a lot of negative feelings
(stigma) around AIDS because people were afraid of it. It was a deadly
illness and people did not understand how it was passed from person to
person. When many people get sick from an illness in the same area at
the same time, it is called an epidemic. This was called the AIDS epidemic.
In 1983, HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) was discovered as the
virus that causes AIDS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) found that HIV was only passed, or transmitted, through contact
with blood, semen and fluids from the vagina. It was also found that HIV
could be passed from mother to child during pregnancy or childbirth or by
breastfeeding.
In 1983, the New York State Department of Health began supporting
programs to educate people about HIV. Programs that support people
affected by HIV/AIDS were also made available. In 1985, the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first blood test that could tell if a
person had HIV. The health department began offering HIV testing.
1986 - 1995
HIV was found in men and women from all walks of life. Many new cases
of HIV were happening in people who shared needles to inject drugs.
This is because when two people use the same needle, they have contact
with each other¡¯s blood. By 1990, more than 28,000 people died of AIDSrelated causes in New York State. HIV was one of the top causes of death
among men under the age of 45. Treatment was not very effective and
the medications had many side effects. In the next five years, from 1990
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