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Did you know that people with HIV can be completely non-infectious?
So when HIV infection is not a problem, what problems do people living with HIV face for the rest of their lives?
Can Taiwanese society accept HIV-infected people with peace of mind?
Listen link:https://reurl.cc/rD6Ark
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host:good morning
Panelists:Goddess Afternoon Tea, Dr. Li Yuandi, Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Sun Yat-sen Medical University Affiliated Hospital
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#62｜The Room｜Aids are not contagious without condoms? Is heterosexuality more dangerous than homosexuality? ft. Goddess afternoon tea, Dr. Li Yuandi
Summary of this episode:
.HIV cold knowledge test
. Can AIDS not be contagious without condoms?
. Diagnosed with AIDS and broke up? /Cancer.Which one for AIDS?
. Times have changed, parents will also take their children to see a doctor?
. Don’t you dare to see the medicine? /Health Passbook helps humans track health
. Heterosexual love doubles?
.Mental stress outweighs illness / AIDS is a chronic disease
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source:Is AIDS contagious? Is heterosexuality more dangerous than homosexuality?
Difference Between HIV and AIDS
Physician Li Yuandi introduced HIV and AIDS at the beginning of the program. HIV is the AIDS virus, so getting HIV is only in the state of infection. It can only be called AIDS after the onset of the disease at a later stage. Among the total AIDS-infected population in the world, heterosexual The number of people in love is the largest.
The infected person may not encounter common infections at the time of the disease. For example, cytomegalovirus infection of the eyes can lead to blindness, because the immune system is at the lowest level at the time of the disease, and these opportunistic infections are very easy to take away the infected person. ‘s life. However, even if most infected people become ill, as long as the treatment is successful and the medication is well controlled, most infected people can still return to the HIV-positive or asymptomatic period, and stable medication can also return to the U=U stage. In the case of U=U, it is possible to have sex without condoms without infecting others, but if the other party still has doubts, it is safer to take PREP.
Dr. Li Yuandi also mentioned that the reason why the AIDS prevalence rate has been decreasing year by year may be due to a large number of screening tests, and now the diagnosis time is shortened, and the screening results can be known as soon as half a day. The preliminary results can be known in 20 minutes. If the quick screening is positive and then the hospital is confirmed, the drug will be administered immediately within seven days of the diagnosis. Therefore, regular screening is very important.
How has everything changed after becoming infected?
Goddess Afternoon Tea mentioned that when he first learned that he was diagnosed with AIDS, he was actually in a stable mood, because he had regular screening tests before he was infected, so he already had a certain understanding of AIDS. Also because he already has friends who are infected, and seeing that he has been taking medication steadily for the past ten years, and his life is the same as that of ordinary people, there is not much emotional ups and downs.
The goddess afternoon tea was also shared. When she was diagnosed with her ex-boyfriend, she came out of the closet but was broken up. The eyes of her ex-boyfriend were like a microcosm of society, full of discrimination. She also once asked the audience how if they had to choose between “getting AIDS” or “getting cancer”? Unexpectedly, nearly 80% of people choose to “get cancer”, which shows that there is still a lot of misunderstanding about AIDS in society. The host of the program also asked Dr. Li Yuandi how he would choose. The doctor said that he would choose to get AIDS, because AIDS is like a chronic disease, which only needs to be controlled by taking medicines regularly every day.
Dr. Li Yuandi said that when the side effects of AIDS drugs are still very large, many infected people are reluctant to take the medicine, preferring to wait until they die, because the side effects of the drugs are too great and uncomfortable, and many people cannot Live with the side effects. In the past, many infected people only dared to let their very close friends know their status as infected people, but most of their family members did not know, but in recent years, parents have gradually begun to bring their children to see AIDS or return to the doctor.
Chronic diseases arrive early, regular health check-ups to master health
When AIDS-infected people encounter inflammation, their reaction will be older than the average person, and their body age may be ten years older than their peers. Therefore, they need to pay special attention to chronic diseases, metabolic syndrome and three highs, which may arrive earlier. The health passbook can see the physical condition of the doctor in the past few years, and you can have a regular health check every three months. Although the side effects of current AIDS treatment drugs are few and may be too few to be noticed by you, the chronic inflammation of the body is actually ongoing, and it is necessary to draw blood to know the situation that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
In addition, most heterosexuals do not think that they will get AIDS, so they do not have regular inspections, but it is easy to delay the detection until the disease occurs. Moreover, women have fewer opportunities to receive inspections and have fewer motivations for inspections, so they also need to pay special attention; now many Hospitals provide anonymous screening tests, and reagents for home screening can also be purchased, which are not difficult to obtain if needed.
The gap between beautiful imagination and reality
Goddess Afternoon Tea shared that in fact, she still had a positive image of the world in the early stage of infection, thinking that the stratosphere may be familiar with, familiar with, and accepting of AIDS, but in fact, there will still be negative remarks and prejudice. will feel hurt. In particular, the goddess afternoon tea is also worried that some negative remarks on the public message board will be seen by other infected friends, making these infected friends feel hurt.
Physician Li Yuandi said that in fact, the doctors themselves will also distinguish who is an AIDS-friendly doctor and who is a doctor who is less able to accept HIV-infected patients, because they are also afraid of their own illness before helping the infected person to refer them. If the patient is rejected by other doctors, it will be arranged in advance and the doctor will be psychologically prepared.With the advancement of drug treatment and the times, the public is more concerned about the negative remarks, discrimination and exclusion of HIV-infected people than the side effects of AIDS drugs.
Exercise a strong mind and face the unkindness of the world
At the end of the afternoon tea, the goddess said that the world is not very friendly, but taking medicine and physical health is under your control, and the external world is that you must exercise your mind, and then face the world’s pollution of AIDS. name.
Dr. Li Yuandi said that AIDS is regarded as a chronic disease. If you take medicine well, you will be like ordinary people, except that you have HIV and not hepatitis B. In fact, hepatitis B is not inferior to HIV. The transmission routes of HIV are similar, they are all transmitted through needle injection and sexual behavior, so why do doctors reject HIV patients? Hepatitis B requires even longer medication than HIV to keep it under control. The modern era is really more advanced than in the past, but we still need to pay more attention to this issue, and it is also necessary for the infected to take good medicine to control the virus to an undetectable level.
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