MIC 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Vaxgen, Sexual Assault, Demography Of The United States
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Know how to read a kaplan-meier plot. Short term: education, abcs (active), male circumcision (passive) Intermediate term: microbicide (semi-active), oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep) (semi-active), treatment as prevention (semi-active) Teaching abcs is active intervention - you"re telling people directly to change their decision. Treatment as prevention - keeping viral load down and viral load in semen and vaginal secretions to prevent transmission. All the prevention terms are semi-active; have to decide every day to take their pills. None of use are good at taking our pills every day. Once the virus has gone from the area of the vaginal tract/skin area to the gut mucosa = when you have an active infection. Decrease exposure to the virus: condom use, partner reduction, treatment as. Decrease the rate of infection: male circumcision. Foreskin is one of the most sensitive areas in the body to hiv infection. Taking off the foreskin decreases the rate of infection in the man.
