Controlling sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS

Description

Controlling sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS involves implementing comprehensive prevention, testing, and treatment strategies to reduce transmission rates. Key actions include promoting safe sex practices, increasing access to condoms, providing widespread HIV testing and counseling, ensuring early and sustained antiretroviral therapy, and targeting high-risk populations with education and outreach. These measures aim to interrupt the chain of infection, reduce stigma, and improve public health outcomes by addressing both behavioral and biomedical factors contributing to HIV/AIDS spread.

Context

Worldwide, the HIV virus is most commonly transmitted through sex between men and women. It also is transmitted during homosexual sex. In some parts of the world, many prostitutes are infected.