My Lifestyle Content Choices: Tutorial "How To Conduct HIV Self Test"

Hello great people in steemit blogchain, steem4nigeria community, how are you doing today I hope you all are fine. For me it's a pleasure. Today I will be discussing my next Content Choices on Tutorial using what I do. The steps that I will show you is very simple to carry out the test successful. But before I start, let me recognize the honourable moderator @ngoenyi for organizing this content choice for us. A big thank you to her and all the team worker of this great platform.

Definition Of HIV

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that affect or damages the immune system when come in contact with the affected person through intercourse, infected blood, seminal fluid, sharps object, vaginal fluids etc .

Today am going to show you how to conduct HIV test by yourself using HIV Self Test kit. Am going to use myself to perform this test.

Material needed:

• HIV Self kit (Mylan)
• Cotton wool
• Sterile Lancet
• Methylated spirit or Alcohol pad

Steps;

• Check the manufacturer and expering date of the test kit. Open the test kit pack, remove the kit, the buffer and place on a flat vibrating free surface.

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• open the test kit porch, remove the kit and place on the surface.

• Using your right hand thumb, apply pressure on your left ring hand finger by rubbing it gently.

• Disinfect the finger using the alcohol pad or cotton wool been soak in Methylated spirit.

• With your sterile lancet, gently prick the finger and wipe the first coming out blood.

• Using your first two right fingers, press the pricking finger for blood to flow.

• Gently insert the blood in the blood area of the test kit.

• Add 4 drops of the test kit buffer and allow it to flow.

• Read results in 15minutes. Do don't read results after 20minutes.

Results

Negative
If only one red line appear at the C, you are tested negative. There must be no line at the T.
Test again after 3 month.

Positive
If two red lines appear, even if faint, you are HIV positive. Go to clinic for further testing.

Invalid
If the red line appear on the T or didn't appear at either C or T. The results is invalid.
This test is a screening test.

HIV is a virus that anyone can get, but certain group have a higher risk of getting it. Like discrimination, people who inject drugs with shared needles, people with another sexual transmitted disease, people who engage in sexual behavior, such as not using condom etc, are the highest risk people.

If this infection not treated when come in contact with it, it will become chronic HIV Infection. This is because the virus has weaken your body immune system. Then, the infection will go as far as progressing to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which is late.

AIDS stage is a final stage in HIV.
With AIDS your immune system is completely or badly damage. It makes a way for more infection to come in.

Conclusion
HIV has no cure that is why it is called retrovirus. But there is a medicine that you can take when you are affected, to stop to some extent that cannot be transferred.

Check your HIV Status and stay safe.

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