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Why girls more vulnerable to HIV


Global AIDS infected persons, about half of the people aged 15 to 24 have contracted the AIDS virus, but in 12 to 19-year-old youth AIDS infection rates are rising incessantly. Among these, the situation of women is even more serious. Currently, the world every day, nearly 6,000 young people infected with HIV, many of whom are young women and girls, some young women in the incidence rate has been more than the adults. Let young people’s understanding of female sexuality lightly on the harm to women far exceeded men to strengthen AIDS prevention awareness is very necessary.

Why girls more vulnerable to HIV?

(1) girls than adult women more vulnerable to HIV. From the structure of the female body physiological conditions, women more likely than men to sexually transmitted infections and AIDS. Young women between the vagina and cervix than adult women’s ability to resist disease is even worse. Therefore, teenage sexual activity contracted sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS risk greater than adult women.

(2) the risk of teenage pregnancy than the adult female high. If unwanted teenage pregnancy, whether it is acceptable or abortion final birth, and other anomalies occur (such as uterine injury. Hemorrhage. Pregnancy-induced hypertension, premature, or even death pregnancy, etc.) than the risk of high adult female. But after the birth of the child, adolescent girls are often bringing to bear all the consequences, including the economic burdens and social discrimination.

(3) girls also face their own social asked. If girls are often forced prematurely into the community. Their lack of social experience, do not know how to protect themselves, their social and psychological knowledge and life skills, but also far unable to cope with complex social and emotional problems.

(4) the girl’s psychological weaknesses than men. Generally, girls bear the consequences of sexual behavior by the immediate and long-term physical injury and mental stress more than men. Therefore, the girls must understand their psychological weaknesses and know how to be responsible to themselves, to learn the knowledge, learning how to protect themselves, which is very important.

Reject HIV from unsafe sex

(1) reject premarital sex. Premarital sex of pregnancy, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases. AIDS is obvious harm. Premarital sex lightly, resulting in lack of commitment, not fixed, not lasting relationship can easily break apart, and bring about psychological pain even worse is that some people in order to bring the other side to agree to have sexual relations, with a false pledge cheat, or to hide myself have had sexual relations, even conceal themselves to be suffering from venereal disease or infected with HIV, so that the risk of infection also increased. Therefore, we reject premarital sex is the safest measures to protect themselves. If the occurrence beyond the control of premarital sex, it strongly to the use of condoms to reduce HIV infections opportunities.

(2) Do not seeing sexual freedom. Ostensibly sexual freedom can be instinctive desire to meet, but if infected with sexually transmitted diseases, loss of health to join the study, freedom to work; If infected with the AIDS virus, the life of the freedom by his imprudent act ruined; Pregnant women also worry that abortion Although convenient , but the adverse consequences of the situation is not uncommon.

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