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The College of Nursing at the University of Basra organized a scientific symposium on the immunodeficiency disease (AIDS) with the participation of researchers and specialists from the Basra Health Department. The symposium included a lecture presented by Dr. Ahmed Fuad Saleh and Dr. Awatif Asaad Hadi from the AIDS Control Division, in which they dealt with the definition of AIDS, methods of transmission and the seriousness of this Disease on humans, Fouad added that this disease is caused by the human immunodeficiency virus, and modern science has not reached a cure for it, and there is no vaccine for the disease, and it is a disease caused by a virus that belongs to a group of viruses called (retroviruses). He also referred to the methods of transmission of this disease, which are divided into several ways, the most important of which are sexual intercourse, blood transfusion contaminated with the virus, and also the use of non-sterile skin-piercing tools and the transfer of the infected pregnant mother's mother to the child through the placenta during the birth period, passing through the contaminated channel With the virus and after birth through mother's milk, and among the most important ways to prevent this disease is to avoid establishing illegal relationships outside marriage, and Using blood exclusively through blood drainage, using anti-virus drugs for an infected mother during pregnancy, and avoiding skin-pricking tools, as well as using cupping, tattoos, and non-sterile dentist tools. The symposium aimed at spreading awareness and education for ways to transmit this disease as the disease is not treatable. |
