evel to prevent spread of the virus.
             The HIV virus is spread in a variety of ways, but the major modes are via sexual intercourse and intravenous drug use. The major risk factors for HIV are unsafe injecting habits, multiple sexual partners and unsafe sexual practices, particularly intercourse without the use of condoms or other barrier methods of protection.
             Therefore prevention of HIV/AIDS requires a change in the lifestyle or general behaviour of the individual, and this is the fundamental difference between the individual determinants view and the disease views of health.
             Under the disease view the patient is required to take a daily dosage of the anti-HIV drug Zidovudine which inhibits the spread of HIV in the body. Aside from taking this intervention and the associated side effects, the intervention should not greatly change the patient's lifestyle or general behaviour. Under the individual determinants view, the patient themself takes responsibility for the prevention of contracting HIV, whereas u
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