1. Unit 4 – HIV, STD & Pregnancy Prevention
Lesson 6: HIV – Get the facts

2. Healthy Behavior Outcomes
Be sexually abstinent.
Engage in behaviors that prevent or reduce sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including HIV infection.
Utilize appropriate health services to promote sexual health.

3. Bell Ringer Write 3 things you have heard or read about in HIV or AIDS
Journal

4. Motivation
What is a situation in which a person might do something risky because he or she didn’t know all the facts?
What could happen?
What might some of the negative consequences be?

5. What is HIV? HIV stands for Human Immunodeficiency Virus
It’s the virus that causes AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
HIV lives in the semen, vaginal fluids, blood, and breast milk of a person with HIV.
It can be passed from one person to another through these infected fluids
HIV damages the body’s immune system. Over time, the body can no longer fight off other diseases and infections

6. What is HIV? Some people with HIV stay healthy a long time
Medicines can help people stay healthy longer
As HIV progresses, the person may get sick more often
A person with HIV is diagnosed with AIDS when his or her immune system can no longer fight off certain kinds of diseases.
There is no cure for HIV, but there are ways to keep from getting it

7. Workbook Fact or Myth? Complete page 18 in Workbook
Let’s see how much you already know about HIV
Turn to page 19 in Workbook – read aloud as a class
Work with a partner to go over the answers to Fact or Myth?
Change any answers based on what we just read

8. HIV HIV is passed through infected blood, semen, and vaginal fluids
Sexual activity
Share needles to inject drugs or for other reasons
Can’t get HIV unless one of these infected fluids from someone who has HIV gets into your body
Can be passed from a mother during pregnancy or after birth through breast milk
Can take medicines to reduce the chances of it being passed to the baby

9. HIV People don’t get HIV from day-to-day contact Touching Hugging
Kissing
Drinking from the same glass
Can’t get it from toilet seats or mosquito bites
Safe to be friends with someone who has HIV

10. HIV You can’t tell if someone has HIV
People with HIV may look and feel well for a long time
They may not even know they have HIV
Only way to know for sure is to get tested
People with HIV may have flu-like symptoms when they’re first infected
Then they may not notice symptoms for years
As HIV slowly starts to damage more of the immune system, people may have fever, chills, a rash, sweating at night, achy muscles, a sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, and sores in the mouth

11. HIV You can protect yourself
The best way to avoid sexual transmission of HIV is to be abstinent
If person chooses to have sex, they can stay safer if they have sex only with on lifetime partner who doesn’t have HIV or share needles and who has sex only with them
Use latex or plastic condoms every time
Never share needles with anyone for any reason

12. Risk Cards With your partner, look at your card
Think about whether doing this behavior would put a person at risk of getting HIV
Decide how much risk the behavior carries
TAPE your card where you think it belongs on the risk continuum

13. Close
With a partner, list 3 things you learned in this lesson