Author/Editor		Tomažič, J
Title		AIDS kot spolno prenosljiva bolezen
Translated title		AIDS as sexually transmitted disease
Type		članek
Source		Zdrav Vestn
Vol. and No.		Letnik 64, št. 4
Publication year		1995
Volume		str. 229-32
Language		slo
Abstract		Background. In global sense, human immunodeficiency virus infection (HIV) is primarily a sexually transmitted disease (STD), while sexual contact with an infected person is estimated to account for nearly 90 percent of HIV infected cases and aids throughout the world. The risk of HIV transmission, practicing unprotected sex with an infected person, depends on mode of sexual intercourse, disease state in infected partner, virus virulence, sex and age of uninfected partner and of other STDs. STDs are highly associated with one another. Especially important is double impact in simultaneous infection with HIV and Treponema pallidum (syphilis). Conclusions. Awareness of HIV risk is important in all contexts of sexuality, which underlies the strategies of prevention and public health intervention. Safer sex messages should discuss reducing the number of sexual partners, knowing the health status of partners (if possible), avoiding unprotected sexual practices and using condoms.
Summary		Izhodišča. Glavni način prenosa virusa človeške imunske pomanjkljivosti (HIV) je prek spolnih odnosov z okuženim partnerjem, saj se je na tak način po svetu okužilo skoraj 90 odst. vseh seropozitivnih in bolnikov z aidsom. Prvenstveno gre torej za spolno prenosljivo bolezen (SPB). Tveganje za okužbo pri nezaščitenih spolnih odnosih z okuženim partnerjem je odvisno od načina spolnega odnosa, od stopnje bolezni pri okuženem partnerju, od virulence virusa, od spola in starosti neokuženega partnerja in od sočasne prisotnosti drugih SPB. SPB so med seboj zelo povezane. Posebno pomemben je obojestranski vpliv pri sočasni okužbi z virusom HIV in bakterijo Treponema pallidum (sifilis). Zaključki. Osnovna strategija javnega zdravstva glede aidsa kot SPB je, da se je pri vseh vidikih spolnosti treba zavedati nevarnosti okužbe z virusom HIV. Za bolj varne spolne odnose je treba zmanjšati število spolnih partnerjev, če je le možno, poznati njihovo zdravstveno stanje, treba se je izogibati nezaščitenim spolnim odnosom in uporabljati kondome.
Descriptors		ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES, VIRAL SYPHILIS