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In the past 2 decades, prevention of HIV/AIDS epidemic became a real challenge for the field of public health. Since there is no effective cure for this condition and current treatments are not accessible to everybody, preventing the infection in the first place is the best way to avoid excessive morbidity and mortality due to AIDS.

In relation to HIV/AIDS prevention, counseling is the only practical means for promoting changes and adoption of long term low risk behaviors. Counseling becomes necessary because people are at a loss and unable to decide what to do with their lives, once they are found to be HIV positive. Those who have practiced high risk behavior are unable to take a decision whether to go for HIV test or not. Another important issue is breaking the news to the family members and sex partners. In such circumstances, counseling helps a person to come to term with the realities of HIV/AIDS and act in a balanced way.

 

Author: Dr. Arun Kr. Sharma, Dehli, India

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