Condoms - The Successive Steps of AIDS Prevention

AIDS has long been a source of intense concern on the international scale, but as time has gone on there have been many advances both in sociological changes and in behavioural changes that have helped to neutralize this particular illness in many areas of the world. AIDS prevention is therefore a successful endeavour if done correctly and while more permanent and better AIDS prevention methods are being developed, it behoves us as a population to try and utilize the AIDS prevention methods we currently have in order to try and reduce the spread of this illness as much as possible. To that end, there are several steps that you can take in order to help the AIDS prevention cause.
The first and most obvious step in terms of AIDS prevention is to simply abstain from having sex altogether. This is of course an activity that few people have the ability to do, but there are some for which sex is really not that big a priority and those people can protect themselves to a larger degree by making sure they avoid sex whenever they can. Avoiding sex alone will not make you 100% immune to catching AIDS, but it will go a long way towards helping ensure that your AIDS prevention efforts are successful in some way, shape or form.
For people that are simply not going to be able to avoid sexual activity for one reason or another, a much more reasonable step to take might be to cut down on the number of sexual partners that you have. The number of times you have sex with a different person can drastically contribute to an increased chance of contracting AIDS and for that reason ensuring that you are in a monogamous relationship or at least taking measures to reduce the number of sexual partners you have can go a long way towards helping you cut down on your chances of contracting AIDS.
If you decide to cut down on the number of sexual partners you have however, you will need to do something else in order to help your AIDS prevention efforts along. A good idea would be to wander into the realm of contraceptives and start utilizing them as a way to augment your protection against the AIDS virus. Condoms, diaphragms or any other contraception method that prevents the mixing of fluids would be suitable if your main goal is AIDS prevention. There are other birth control methods on the market such as pills that are not effective for preventing STD transmission for the simple reason that they do nothing to prevent the mixing of fluids which is where all of these diseases come from in the first place.
Preventing the spread of AIDS is something that everyone should be interested in if for no other reason than to ensure a higher standard of living. Smart sex and safe sex rather than unprotected sex is such a small price to pay for something as important as preventing the spread of AIDS.