Petronila's report on the July 14, 2006 reproductive health workshop

Hello:
Chris, I send you a cordial greeting, wishing you success in your daily work as well as your work for Project Victoria.
It’s a pleasure for me to be able to be in touch with you, in hopes that God has illuminated great blessings in your daily life.
Chris, the talk that Dr. Edwin Sanchez Soto gave us was about HIV/AIDS…

HIV is an infectious disease that is transmitted by the genitals. 85% of the population has this disease. These people were infected because they didn’t take care of themselves and their lives, and for that reason they are infected with HIV.

The sicknesses that HIV causes are:

Gonorrhea: The most common sexually transmitted disease.
Symptoms: Liquids start to come out of the penis, pain on urination, frequent urination, is detected more in men than in women.
Genital warts: Produced by a virus and can be located anywhere on the body; is contagious.
Syphilis: A sore on the genitals. This is a sickness that can not be cured. If it’s detected in the early stage it can be cured, but if not, it leads to death.
Genital Herpes: An infection caused by a virus, which manifests itself in bumps.

Symptoms: Itching, burning, fever, pain on urination, painful inflammation of the lymphatic nodes.
Peliculosis or Crabs: This is caused by the pelvic lice and is generally transmitted directly from person to person. This happens to people when they don’t bathe, when they use other people’s clothing, and because of lack of hygiene.

HIV AIDS
It is an advanced infection produced by HIV, in other words an incurable sickness. What this virus does is to totally destroy our system, and it becomes very easy to get sick when our bodies have no defenses.
AIDS is known as a syndrome without symptoms. It’s also a contagious infection. This disease is not immediately apparent and can take up to eight years to show itself. HIV/AIDS is detectable.

Questions:
Where is it found? It is found in the virus, the blood, mother’s milk, through injections, sexual relations, pregnancy, from mother to child, blood transfusions, and from razors.

Who can get it? People who have many sexual partners, heterosexuals, bisexuals. Men or women, drug addicts who inject themselves with drugs.

What should people do? People must visit a doctor whether they are sick or not. Men should be faithful to their wives.

How does it show itself? People lose weight and have diarrhea.

How is it transmitted: There are three ways for HIV/AIDS to be transmitted.

1. Sexual transmission. Through semen during all kinds of sexual relations with an HIV-positive person.
2. Transmission by blood. When the blood of a person infected with HIV comes into contact with our blood.
3. Transmission from mother to child. Infected women can transmit the virus to children in utero and during birth or lactation.

These were the questions I asked the person who gave the talk.

He used a laptop computer and written pages with questions and a summary of the talk.

May God bless you Christopher, today and always.

Sincerely,

Petronila Castro

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