BREAKING BARRIERS AND BUILDING COMMUNITIES.
At Alive Family Services of Philadelphia (AFSP), we strive to empower communities through various social service initiatives. Our programs are designed to uplift individuals and foster a spirit of collaboration and support.
"HIV IS NOT A CRIME"
DO YOU KNOW?
Symptoms
Most people who are infected with HIV experience flu-like symptoms within 2 to 4 weeks after being infected.
Other symptoms are Fever, Chills, Rash, Night sweats, Muscle aches, Sore throat, Fatigue, Swollen lymph nodes, Mouth ulcers, and Weight loss. However, some people have no symptoms at all. The only way to know if you are HIV positive is to be tested.
You can’t protect yourself if you don’t know what to look for. STD symptoms vary widely — some are obvious, some are hardly noticeable, and some STDs show no symptoms at all — meaning the only way you can be totally sure of your status is to get tested. Most STDs are treatable or manageable, but not without professional help.
Prevention
HIV and other STDs are easily spread from one partner to another, but STDs are preventable. The best way to prevent getting or spreading an STD is to be responsible about your sex life. Protect yourself and your partner.
Sometimes it can be hard to tell if you need to get tested for an STD. If you or your partners have any of the symptoms of an STD — or if you’re worried at all that you may have contracted one — you should go ahead and do it.
Treatment for HIV
HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) is a chronic condition that requires ongoing medical treatment. The primary goal of HIV treatment is to suppress the virus and prevent it from progressing to AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).
- The treatment for HIV is called antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART involves taking a combination of HIV medicines daily, monthly, or every other month.
- While ART cannot cure HIV, prompt HIV treatment can help all people with HIV live long, healthy lives and reduce the risk of HIV transmission.
- One of the primary goals of HIV treatment is to reduce a person’s viral load to an undetectable level, which nearly eliminates the risk of transmitting HIV through sexual contact.
"FREE HIV HOME TEST KIT"
AFSP offers FREE HIV self-testing kits that you can use at home or in any private location to find out your HIV status. Thia test is an antibody test that allows you to test quickly and easily in the comfort of your own home or any private location. The test is an oral swab, so there’s no need to draw blood."
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"We can STOP HIV"
"When a person is living with HIV and is on effective treatment, it lowers the level of HIV (the viral load) in the blood. When the levels are extremely low (below 200 copies/ml of blood measured) it is referred to as an undetectable viral load. This is also medically known as virally suppressed. At this stage, HIV cannot be passed on sexually. "
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