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Methods to Reduce Rates of HIV Transmission
* Treat HIV infection as an illness, not as a social stigma
* Reduce levels of poverty in society that lead to increased risks through drug abuse and
promiscuity
* Provide HIV testing and counseling to identify infected persons who can reduce their risk
to others
* Provide educational programs for children and adults which describe how to avoid
sexually transmitted diseases
* Promote sexual barrier precautions among high risk commercial sex workers and clients
* Provide clean needles for injection drug users
* Create health care programs providing antiretroviral therapy to extend life and reduce
HIV transmission rates
* Give HIV-infected pregnant women antiretroviral therapy to reduce perinatal HIV
transmission
* Consier pre-exposure prophylaxis with antiretroviral drugs
