Day by day the world number of HIV patients keep increasing geometricaly. While the number of patients increase, it seems the HIV sensitization declines.The would is gradually learning how to live with HIV. Most people have failed to identify the other risk factors associated with HIV. In as Much as there are treatments to manage HIV, the virus opens the body system to so many other life threatening diseases with high mortality rate on certain kinds of people. It is of paramount importance we individually and collectively make honest efforts to not be infected with the virus. Moreso reduce its spread. 
HIV is a retrovirus which replicates in the system that houses the white blood cells.CTD 1 Lymphocytes) . Transmission occurs by exposure to blood and other body fluids infected with virus. An untreated HIV-infected person can be divided into three stages, namely, stages of primary infection, clinical latency, and, finally, opportunistic infections called AIDS. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines AIDS as being present when there is an AIDS-defining disease or a CD4 T-cell count less than 200 microliters. Some studies suggest that an HIV test should be requested if there is a typical, bilateral, treatment-unresponsive ocular toxoplasmosis(caused by a common parasite found in cat faces) or suspicion of cytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis(mostly a genetically inherited eye disease) .
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that since the early 1980s, more than 50 million people worldwide have been infected with HIV, and the global prevalence rate is thought to be 0.8%. It is possible that 15,000 to 20.000 new infections occur every day. More than 1 million children are infected with HIV. About three-quarters of HIV patients are assumed to develop the ocular disease. Most of the HIV patients are from developing countries. Studies suggest that between 5 to 25% of all HIV patients in developing countries may become blind in their lifetime. Diseases of the retina and choroid are the most common in HIV patients, and they may cause visual loss. Retinal micro vasculopathy and CMV retinitis are seen in almost 30% to 40% of HIV patients. CMV retinitis is less common in developing countries compared to developed countries, and the HIV infected in the developing countries are more prone to infections by Toxoplasma, tuberculosis, Herpes zoster ophthalmic, and papillomavirus-associated squamous cell tumors. This difference reflects more exposure to these causative agents and higher death rates early in the course of the disease.
HIV makes the human immune to be susceptible to several diseases. Most likely, disease that affects the eye. A regular check up of atleast most (3) three months interval is recommend. Knowing your HIV status is far more better than assuming or presuming yourself to be negative of the virus. Do well to keep up with your medications as recommended by your doctor or Physician to help curb the spread of the virus.
Abstinence from random sex, and treatment of sharp objects before use are best practices to avoid being infected by the virus.
Kindly share in the comments, your experience or other better practices you know that would help the society and the readers reduce the spread of this virus.