Enable Education

The Truth Pandemic campaign is part of an ongoing educational initiative to encourage public awareness about the facts regarding HIV transmission and orphans living with HIV/AIDS. Project HOPEFUL believes that education is key to addressing the needs of orphans with HIV and families/individuals who would seek to adopt them.

What you need to know:

• `HIV is considered a chronic but manageable disease with proper treatment.
  `Children who receive treatment are expected to live a normal lifespan.
• `HIV has never been transmitted in normal family living conditions.
• `You NEVER have to fear contracting HIV through casual contact with an HIV+ person.
• `HIV is spread in three main ways: sexual contact, IV drug use through the sharing of dirty needles,
   mother to infant (pregnancy, birth or breast feeding.)
  
• `All around the world orphans are overlooked for adoption because of their HIV+ status.
• `Medications called ARVs can mean the difference between life and death.
• `The combination of three or more ARVs is called HAART. (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy)
  
• `With medications HIV can be effectively managed to the point that the virus is undetectable in laboratory tests.
• `There is a term for the miraculous transformation HIV+ people undergo when they begin receiving the medications they need.
   The Lazarus Effect is a term commonly used to describe people who were once on the brink of death who have been restored again to health through medication.
  
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• Please consider helping Project HOPEFUL educate, encourage, and enable families and individuals to advocate for and adopt children with HIV/AIDS. When you commit to a year of support through a gift of $25.00/month or more you partner with Project HOPEFUL to continue providing innovative support systems designed to positively impact children and families living with HIV. As a way of saying thank to you for enabling the Truth Pandemic Campaign with your monthly gift Project HOPEFUL would like to send you a Truth Pandemic tee shirt.
  
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• To learn more:
  
• Truth Pandemic Brochure
  HIV and Orphans Facts
  Resources

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