School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : Students' Activities (UNESCO - WHO, 1994, 79 p.): Unit 1: Basic Knowledge on HIV/AIDS/STD: What is your risk?

School Health Education to Prevent AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) : Students' Activities (UNESCO - WHO, 1994, 79 p.)

Unit 1: Basic Knowledge on HIV/AIDS/STD

		HIV/AIDS/STD - Basic questions and answers
		Looking into AIDS
		HIV, AIDS, STD - What do they mean?
		How a person gets HIV*
		You can’t get AIDS by...
		What do you believe?
		What would you do?
		What is your risk?
		Are you at risk?
		Protect yourself against AIDS
		Dear Doctor Sue
		Which is safer?
		What happens with HIV infection?
		How do you know if you have HIV/AIDS?
		Testing for HIV
		Test: What you know...about testing
		AIDS help - Who? Where?
		You be the doctor
		Are you a responsible person?

What is your risk?

Why?

Since there is no vaccine or cure for HIV/AIDS, it is important for you to know how you can get HIV. This will help you to know which things are risky and should be avoided, and which things are not.

How?

1. Read the section called “Risk levels”

2. In each of the boxes beside the activities put:

NR = No Risk or LR = Low Risk or HR = High Risk

Risk Levels NR No risk of getting HIV/AIDS-there is no exchange of blood, male semen or female vaginal secretions LR Low risk of getting HIV/AIDS - there is a slight possibility of exchange of blood, semen or vaginal secretions HR High risk of getting HIV/AIDS - there is a strong possibility of exchange of blood, male semen or female vaginal secretions		5	Kissing (dry kissing)	11	Going to school with an HIV-infected person
		6	Having sex using the same condom more than once	12	Cutting the skin with a knife used by others
1	Using toilets in a public washroom.	7	Sharing needles for injection drug use	13	Being bitten by a mosquito
2	Touching or comforting someone living with AIDS	8	Swimming with an HIV-infected person	14	Giving blood
3	Having sex without a condom	9	Sharing needles for ear-piercing or tattooing	15	Having sex using a condom properly
4	Having oral sex (without semen in the mouth)	10	Abstaining from sexual intercourse	16	Eating food prepared by an HIV-infected person

What is your risk?

To avoid HIV/STD it is very important for you to find out your own personal risk. To do this, look at the risky activities above and consider if you have done any of them in the past. Think about where you would put an “X” on the line below to show what risk you have of getting HIV/AIDS/STD.

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Do you think your risk of getting HIV will change as you get older? If yes, why and how?