Prevention of HIV/AIDS

HIV prevention might refer to practices done to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. HIV prevention practices may be done by individuals to protect 'their own health' and the health of those in their community, or may be instituted by governments or other organizations as 'public health policies'.Some commonly considered pharmaceutical interventions for the prevention of HIV might include the use of:The Centers for Disease Control was the first organization to recognize the pandemic which came to be called AIDS. Their announcement came on June 5, 1981 when one of their journals published an article reporting five cases of pneumonia, caused by Pneumocystis jirovecii, all in gay men living in Los Angeles.