NHS Elton John Clinic Research Center for HIV in Brighton [22, 23, 25/01/ 2010]




Throughout this 3 days I have been researching at the NHS Elton John Clinic Research Center for HIV in Brighton and researching on medical and physician books, pdf files and power points. After and during this process I concluded that the right information is not being passed to the audience and moreover has been generating alarmism and preconceptions. Furthermore it has been stated by one of the nurses that there are a range of discrimination's happening from GP’s and Dentist due to wrong, little or manipulated information in this subject matter. Nevertheless, for the duration of my personal research on the content I discovered that are two ways of categorising “how could the virus be transmited” which clash and contradict with each other. This is probably the main question and a direct truthful answer should be given. From what has been told by the nurses, the virus is transmitted only by blood to blood contact, syringes exchange, vaginal fluids, sperm and mother to child. Having affirmed that, concerning sexual transmissions someone can be infected if there is a direct contact between the sperm and a wound and if someone ejaculates in another’s mouth there is a probability of being infected if there is an open wound in the mouth. Moreover, if the sperm is swollen the stomach acids directly destroy the virus. The HIV/AIDS virus is transmittable but fortunately is really difficult to be passed on and therefore very little percentage of contagion. It must be stated that in order to prevent HIV/AIDS and other STD’s there is a need for using protection specially if someone has a very active sexual live with different partners.

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