Treatment Literacy/Information needs/prevention

Why should prevention and safer sex be focused on people living with HIV?

 * 1. To prevent from the infection of others with HIV.


 * 2. To prevent from sexually transmitted infections, which, if left untreated, can cause serious health problems, particularly when the immune system is very weak.
 * 3. Unsafe sex might damage the health of people with HIV and several cases of reinfection or superinfection with drug-resistant strains of HIV have now been presented.


 * 4. Prevention of the progression of HIV to AIDS