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Basic Facts About HIV/AIDS Usually, HIV is transmitted through: 1  Unprotected sexual intercourse (either vaginal or anal) with someone who has HIV. 2  Unprotected oral sex with someone who has HIV. 3  Sharing needles or syringes with someone who is HIV infected.  Infection during pregnancy, childbirth, or breast-feeding (mother-to-infant transmission).
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HIV/AIDS Over the past years, several drugs have become available to fight both the HIV infection and its associated infections and cancers. These drugs are commonly called highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and have substantially reduced HIV-related complications and deaths. However, medications do not cure HIV/AIDS. In one case, a patient treated for cancer apparently was cured of HIV through use of a stem cell transplant, but this stem cell cure is not recommended for HIV due to the high risk of mortality and uncertain chance of success.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) HIV does not spread easily from person to person. To get infected with HIV, infected blood, sexual fluid, or mother’s milk has to get into your body. HIV-infected pregnant women can pass the infection to their new babies.To decrease the risk of spreading HIV: 1  Use condoms during sexual activity.IV does not spread easily from person to person. To get infected with HIV, infected blood, sexual fluid, or mother’s milk has to get into your body. HIV-infected pregnant women can pass the infection to their new babies. To decrease the risk of spreading HIV: 1  Use condoms during sexual activity.
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Gay Health: Letâs talk about sex HIV cannot survive outside the body. It cannot be spread through the air, from touching, toilet seats or shared cutlery. Using condoms during sex, avoiding shared injecting equipment, and taking HIV treatment if you are a new or expectant mother will protect you and those around you from HIV.
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- Read more on HIV and opportunistic infections (infections that are more frequent or more severe because of immunosuppression in HIV-infected persons). Read more about antiretroviral treatments for people living with HIV1. For other patient brochures about living with HIV visit the Act Against AIDS site.IV is spread through body fluids such as blood, semen (cum), vaginal fluids, and breast milk. In the United States, HIV is most commonly passed from one person to another through unprotected anal or vaginal sex and through sharing needles or other drug equipment.
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Routes of HIV transmission? Vaginal or anal intercourse. HIV can be transmitted sexually, even if no tearing occurs during sex. This is because semen and vaginal secretions can be absorbed by the rectal tissue, vaginal tissue, or into the urethra of either partner (regardless of gender) because they are mucous membranes.
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Facts About HIV/AIDS The only way to be absolutely certain you do not become infected with HIV is to not have sex and not use injection drugs. You also can avoid infection by only having one sex partner as long as your partner does not have HIV and has sex only with you.
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AIDS AIDS can be transmitted in several ways. The risk factors for HIV transmission vary according to the method of transmission. HIV is not transmitted by handshakes or other casual non-sexual contact, coughing or sneezing, or by bloodsucking insects such as mosquitoes.cquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an infectious disease caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). There are two variants of the HIV virus, HIV-1 and HIV-2, both of which ultimately cause AIDS.
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Overview You can become infected with HIV in several ways, including: 1  By having sex. 2  You may become infected if you have vaginal, anal or oral sex with an infected partner whose blood, semen or vaginal secretions enter your body.
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saliva (Facts for Life: What you and the people you care about need to know about HIV/AIDS ) HIV enters the body through open cuts, sores, or breaks in the skin; through mucous membranes, such as those inside the anus or vagina; or through direct injection. 1  Sexual contact with an infected person.  Sharing needles, syringes, or other injection equipment with someone who is infected.
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HIV/AIDS HIV can be transmitted: 1  During sex (anal, vaginal and oral) 2  By contaminated blood (by sharing or accidentally being stuck with a contaminated needle. 3  Through transfusions before blood products started being screened for HIV in 1985) 4  By being born to a mother who is infected with HIV.
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What Are HIV and AIDS? However, there’s good news: by using HIV medicines (called antiretroviral therapy or ART) consistently, you can prevent HIV from progressing to AIDS. ART helps control the virus so that you can live a longer, healthier life and greatly reduces the risk of transmitting HIV to others.
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- Drug Use and HIV Prevention. Using drugs increases your HIV risk. If you're not ready to stop taking drugs, you can still reduce your risk of getting HIV/AIDS. Here's how: 1  Don't have sex when you're high.2  It's easy to forget about safe sex when you're on drugs. 3  If you use drugs, don't inject them.4  If you inject drugs, don't share the equipment.sing drugs increases your HIV risk. If you're not ready to stop taking drugs, you can still reduce your risk of getting HIV/AIDS. Here's how: 1  Don't have sex when you're high.
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How Is HIV Transmitted? Contact between broken skin, wounds, or mucous membranes and HIV-infected blood or blood-contaminated body fluids. Deep, open-mouth kissing if both partners have sores or bleeding gums and blood from the HIV-positive partner gets into the bloodstream of the HIV-negative partner. HIV is not spread through saliva.
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HIV/AIDS HIV can be transmitted through unprotected sexual intercourse (vaginal or anal), and oral sex with an infected person; transfusion of contaminated blood; and the sharing of contaminated needles, syringes, surgical equipment or other sharp instruments.
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- As there is no cure or vaccine for HIV, steps are taken to educate and reduce high risk behaviors such as injection drug use and unprotected sexual contact including oral, anal, and vaginal sex. (AIDS) It s also important to know your HIV status so that you re not unknowingly transmitting the disease to others.
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How is HIV spread? You can become infected if you have contact with the blood of someone who is infected with HIV. Blood-borne infection with HIV can occur through: 1  sharing needles when shooting drugs. 2  tattoos or body piercings with unsterilized needles. 3  accidental needle sticks.
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- 1 HIV is the virus that causes AIDS. 2  Many people who contract HIV live for years with it, but many do eventually die. 3  HIV is usually contracted through contact with blood, semen or vaginal fluid of an infected person. 4  Although many steps can be taken to prevent disease transmission there is still no cure for HIV/AIDS.930: the first time a virus is seen by the human eye --- thanks to the introduction of the electron microscope. Dead or Alive: viruses are not classifiably alive or dead. They seem to be in limbo between each state.
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- But there are treatments for people living with HIV/AIDS. If you have HIV/AIDS, you can take combinations of medicines called cocktails.. The drug cocktails are designed to strengthen the immune system to keep HIV from developing into AIDS or to relieve AIDS symptoms. HIV is the infection that causes AIDS. 2  HIV has few or no symptoms for up to 10 years or more before symptoms of AIDS develop. 3  There is no cure for HIV/AIDS, but treatment is available. 4  HIV can be spread during sex play.
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- There are many methods besides condoms that people are using to reduce their HIV risk. Some people serosort by partnering with people who have the same HIV status, reduce the number of people they have sex with, use female condoms, have sex with HIV-positive partner(s) with undetectable viral load(s), and/or use PrEP.
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Condoms The only 100% effective way to prevent sexual transmission of HIV and STDs is through abstinence - avoiding all vaginal, anal and oral sex. Using a latex male condom or a female condom can greatly reduce, but not entirely eliminate, the risk of HIV and STD transmission.
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Frequently Asked Questions Your sex partners are less likely to get HIV from you if you. 1  Use antiretroviral therapy (ART). ART reduces the amount of virus (viral load) in your blood and body fluids. 2  Choose less risky sexual behaviors. 3  Use condoms consistently and correctly.
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- HIV is spread from an infected person to another person through direct contact with some of the body’s fluids. It is not spread easily. Only certain body fluids from an HIV-infected person can transmit HIV: 1  Blood. 2  Semen (cum). 3  Pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum). 4  Rectal fluids.5  Vaginal fluids. 6  Breast milk.t is not spread easily. Only certain body fluids from an HIV-infected person can transmit HIV: 1  Blood. 2  Semen (cum). 3  Pre-seminal fluid (pre-cum). 4  Rectal fluids. 5  Vaginal fluids. 6  Breast milk.
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Public Health But there is always a chance, especially if your partner is not on effective HIV medicines. Using a condom reduces your risk. HIV is NOT spread by: 1  hugging or massage. 2  masturbation. 3  fantasizing. 4  dry kissing. 5  phone sex. 6  cyber sex. 7  sex toys you don't share.
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5 Most Common Ways To Contract Hiv How to contract HIV (HIV TRANSMISSION BETWEEN TWO HIV NEGATIVES, 2009) (Obama Budget Would Kill Abstinence-Only Funding) 1  If a HIV - woman and a HIV - man have sexual intercourse while the woman is on her menstrual period, is there a possibility of contracting HIV just because she is on her period?