The Top Ten Myths About HIV/AIDS

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Becky Kuhn, M.D., co-founder of Global Lifeworks, debunks the following 10 myths about HIV: HIV doesn't cause AIDS; because of ARV medications, we no longer need to be concerned about HIV/AIDS; if you have HIV and are sexually active, you no longer need to practice safer sex; you can't contract HIV through oral sex; you can't get HIV from one sexual encounter; a woman cannot spread HIV to another woman by having sex with her; if you are HIV positive but your viral load is undetectable, you cannot spread HIV; AIDS can be spread by kissing, hugging, or shaking hands; if you have HIV, you can cure it by having sex with a virgin; every individual with HIV will eventually develop AIDS. This video refutes misinformation from the "Lee Evans HIV Tests" video. Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate a video into another language! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to learn how you can help!!!]

Channel: Education
Uploaded: July 11, 2006 at 10:28 pm
Author: AIDSvideos

Length: 0:08:54
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wisegflare (Thursday 9th of October 2008 10:13:10 AM)
What do you make of all the conspiracies that it was purposly or maybe even accidently created by man? Millions of people believe that. Also how did it travel from chimpanzees to humans? do you think it originated in Africa? How come the first known cases were homosexauls?
pmf026 (Tuesday 7th of October 2008 04:52:04 PM)
Is HIV virus has extra terrestrial origin?
jonamania17 (Wednesday 8th of October 2008 10:36:26 PM)
Your English looks extraterrestrial ...
AIDSvideos (Thursday 9th of October 2008 08:59:46 AM)
There's no reason to believe that HIV is of extraterrestrial origin. HIV-1 is genetically extremely similar to chimp SIV and HIV-2 is genetically extremely similar to sooty mangabey SIV. It's obvious that HIV jumped to humans from SIV in those two animals, likely due to blood exposure through hunting of them. See [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.]
wisegflare (Sunday 5th of October 2008 03:02:24 AM)
what i want to know is where this deadly disease came from! there is quite a few theories out there. some of them plausable some of them ridiculous.
AIDSvideos (Thursday 9th of October 2008 09:00:33 AM)
HIV-1 jumped to humans from the related SIV in chimpanzees. HIV-2 jumped to humans from the related SIV in the sooty mangabey monkey. [Reeves JD, Doms RW. "Human immunodeficiency virus type 2." J Gen Virol. 2002 Jun;83(Pt 6):1253-65.]
MattyH101 (Monday 22nd of September 2008 10:11:15 AM)
thats how all the africans get aids
AIDSvideos (Tuesday 23rd of September 2008 12:31:57 AM)
MTCT is not how ALL HIV+ Africans were infected. In Africa, there's a significant amount of heterosexual sexual transmission of HIV. However, it would be fair to say that MTCT is more common in Africa than in the developed world due to the higher rate of HIV among pregnant women and less access to antiretroviral medications that can prevent MTCT.
exterminatrix (Saturday 20th of September 2008 12:01:15 PM)
fuck hiv!
dcamer (Friday 19th of September 2008 03:35:19 PM)
I would like to thank you for posting this video. There are some groups of people who believe that HIV/AIDS is a myth, and denial of the existence of this disease can only lead to more infections.