PCP HIV AIDS Toolkit/HIV Myths and Facts

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HIV Myths and Facts

A person who looks and feels healthy may still have HIV.
Taking oral contraceptives, or birth control pills, can protect a woman from getting HIV.
In the Philippines an estimated12,000 people have HIV.
If everything feels OK after sex, you can not have HIV.
You can tell if someone has HIV by looking at them.
It is better not to find out if you have AIDS, since there is no cure.
A mother can pass HIV to her baby.
42 million people in the world are living with AIDS.
The only way to know if someone has HIV is a blood test.
Using a condom can help protect you from the transmission of HIV.
There are medicines that can slow the progression of AIDS.
You can get HIV from an insect bite.
You can get AIDS or HIV the first time you have sex.
HIV is not spread through hugging, kissing or holding hands.
It is dangerous to touch people with HIV/AIDS.
HIV/AIDS affects people of all races, sexual orientation and genders.
AIDS is a disease that affects mostly white people. AIDS is only a disease of immoral people, such as homosexuals and prostitutes,
There is NO cure for AIDS.
Doctors and religious leaders in our country have cured AIDS.
There is no AIDS in the Philippines.