WORLD AIDS VACCINE DAY 2016:

HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD) is observed annually on May 18^th.

This observance provides an opportunity to recognize and thank the many volunteers, community members, health professionals, and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective preventive HIV vaccine. It is also a day to educate communities across the nation about the importance of preventive HIV vaccine research.

On May 18^th, “Be committed to ending the AIDS epidemic, and that means finding an HIV vaccine.”

The HIV/AIDS crisis is not over.

More than 33 MILLION people WORLDWIDE are living with HIV.

More than 20 MILLION LIVES have been lost due to HIV/AIDS related illness.

VACCINES:

Vaccines played an important part in the elimination of diseases like diphtheria, smallpox, and paralytic polio. Also it helped to dramatically reduce several other diseases.

It helps your body learn how to fight off a virus, such as HIV.

A preventive HIV vaccine would protect HIV-negative people from being infected with or getting sick from HIV.

NEED OF A PREVENTIVE HIV VACCINE:

There is NO cure for AIDS.

Preventive HIV vaccine could help save millions of lives and billions of dollars of treatment costs.

Safe, effective and affordable vaccines that can prevent HIV are the best hope for controlling and ending the AIDS epidemic.

Need for HIV vaccine remains urgent.

Most infected people will need to stay on treatment for the rest of their lives. But treatment just slows down the disease as there is no cure. We cannot stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic with care and treatment alone.

HIV VACCINES:

The preventive HIV vaccines tested in people do not use weakened or dead versions of HIV.

Instead, HIV vaccines contain genes or proteins that look like those found in the real virus.

They do not have all the parts of the HIV virus needed to cause infection. The vaccines cannot give people HIV.

REDUCE YOUR RISK:

Lower sexual risk for HIV when one partner is HIV+

Substance Abuse/Use

Pregnancy & Childbirth

Blood Transfusions/Organ Donation

Using Condoms and VCF at the same time can reduce your chances of getting HIV/AIDS.

Prevention is essential.

HAPPY HIV AIDS VACCINE DAY…!!!

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