Prevention is the most effective weapon. According to recent research by Durex-Skuola.net, only 1 in 2 young people use condoms, while over 60% feel ashamed when buying. Among the main causes: the lack of awareness due to the precocity of sexual activity (73% between 14 and 17 years) and the educational role, often lacking, of families and institutions.
How the HIV virus is transmitted
HIV can only be transmitted through biological fluids of people with HIV who are unaware or not on effective antiretroviral therapy:
- blood
- semen and vaginal secretions
- breast milk.
Infection occurs when the virus, present in the fluids of a person with HIV, not in effective antiretroviral therapy, comes into contact with the other person, through skin wounds or even non-visible lesions of the mucous membranes.
The transmission routes are:
- sexual: through intercourse (heterosexual or homosexual) not protected by an effective prevention method such as a condom;
- blood: exchange of syringes or sharing of tools for the use of psychoactive substances; transfusions of contaminated blood
- vertical: from mother to newborn during pregnancy, at birth and, more rarely, through breastfeeding.
HIV and AIDS are not the same
HIV and AIDS are not the same, but they are strongly related. L "AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a disease caused by HIV, a virus that attacks the human immune system. In people with AIDS, the immune system is no longer able to defend the body from disease. People who contract the HIV virus (seropositive) are not sick with AIDS, even if they are destined to become, in the absence of adequate treatment with antiretroviral drugs, as essential as a timely diagnosis of HIV infection.
sexual and "safe sex ambassador" which, in collaboration with ANLAIDS, the first Italian Association created to stop the spread of HIV and AIDS, launches the # BastaTantoCosì campaign, now in its second edition with Ambassador Frank Matano.
On the occasion of World Aids Day, Durex reiterates the importance of a simple gesture such as the use of a condom.
"It takes a little, it takes a lot to avoid risks and protect yourself." As part of the initiative, the brand will commit itself to
make an initial donation of 91,000 condoms (1,000 for each year of the brand's history) to ANLAIDS, providing for a second phase in which a condom will be donated for each new follower recruited by 1 December from the Durex Instagram page.
The condom is seen as a contraceptive. A device used by young people above all to avoid unwanted pregnancies and only, secondarily, sexually transmitted diseases. Its function, therefore, is seen as more of a "contraceptive" type. Proof of this is the fact that failure to use is mainly linked to the use of other anti-pregnancy methods, primarily the contraceptive pill.
or andrologist) but, on the contrary, they use the internet as the main source of "education and information" (50% of the sample), with the ever-increasing risk of exposure to fake news and wrong behaviors.
