Encourages apprenticeship and testing Education and testing are acute to preventing the advance of HIV Planned Parenthood provides arcane HIV testing and our acreage educators are agilely out in the community, allotment individuals with the abilities and advice they charge to accomplish responsible, healthy, life-saving decisions about their animal health. Getting activated for HIV is a accustomed allotment of bloom care. Knowing your cachet is a way to account yourself and your partner
Denver (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 26, 2009 -- Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains (PPRM) is acquainted National HIV Testing Day, June 27, by auspicious humans of all ages to apprentice about HIV, how it is transmitted and how to get tested.
HIV is transmitted in blood, semen, vaginal fluids or breast milk. Exposure to any of these fluids can put you at accident for HIV, which is a lot of frequently advance through animal action (anal, vaginal, or oral), syringe or aggravate sharing, claret or claret articles (rare in the United States) or accepting apparent to HIV afore or during bearing or through breast feeding. HIV is the virus that causes AIDS.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, added than 1 actor humans in the United States are active with HIV and out of those 1 actor people, one out of 5 do not apperceive they are infected. For this reason, testing for HIV is crucial. The Colorado AIDS Project letters that as of Sept. 30, 2008, there were 6,102 humans accepted to be active with HIV and 10,613 humans accepted to be active with HIV/AIDS in Colorado.
"Education and testing are acute to preventing the advance of HIV," said PPRM President and CEO Vicki Cowart. "Planned Parenthood provides arcane HIV testing and our acreage educators are agilely out in the community, allotment individuals with the abilities and advice they charge to accomplish responsible, healthy, life-saving decisions about their animal health."
Throughout its four accompaniment arena of Colorado, New Mexico, Southern Nevada and Wyoming, PPRM administered 11,150 HIV tests endure year, an access of about 2,500 tests from 2007. PPRM's accelerated HIV analysis offers after-effects in 10 minutes.
"Getting activated for HIV is a accustomed allotment of bloom care. Knowing your cachet is a way to account yourself and your partner," said Cowart.
In accession to HIV testing and referrals, Planned Parenthood plays an breath role in education. PPRM's accomplished educators, who advise comprehensive, medically-accurate, age adapted sex education, advance abnegation and ache prevention.
The CDC recommends that anybody apperceive their HIV status. Tests are accessible from Planned Parenthood bloom centers and a lot of physicians, hospitals and bloom clinics. Local, accompaniment and federal bloom departments generally action chargeless testing. To acquisition the PPRM bloom centermost abutting you or to learn added about HIV and AIDS, appointment www.pprm.org or alarm 1-800-230-PLAN.
NHTD is an anniversary attack accommodating by the National Association of People with AIDS.
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Since 1916, Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains has been committed to accouterment affordable, arcane bloom care. Our ambition is to ensure that every alone has the information, casework and abandon to accomplish healthy, amenable decisions about their sexuality. More than 127,000 women, men and adolescent adults annually appointment our bloom centers throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Southern Nevada and Wyoming. For added advice about Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, alarm 1-800-230-PLAN or appointment www.pprm.org for the bloom centermost abutting you.
Contact:
Monica McCafferty
303.813.7732
720.475.0289
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