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HIV and AIDS Facts
A person infected with HIV may not show symptoms for five to ten years. People who look completely healthy can still have HIV.
HIV can ALWAYS be passed to others, even if they have no symptoms of AIDS.
Once HIV begins to destroy the body’s immune system, the affected person progresses through different phases of AIDS until they die.
Who is at risk for HIV/AIDS?
EVERYONE who practices unsafe sex, has a pre-existing STD, or uses IV drugs is at HIGH RISK for contracting HIV/AIDS.
Worldwide, more than 90% of all adolescent and adult HIV infections have resulted from heterosexual intercourse.
Females are at as much risk as Males.
How is HIV/AIDS Contracted?
The BIG FOUR : Exchange of Bodily Fluids
1. Sexual Contact (vaginal, oral, anal); does not include casual kissing (unless open mouth sores are present)
2. Sharing Hypodermic Needles through IV drug use
3. Mother to infant transmission: In utero exchange, during birth, or through breast-feeding after birth
4. Less commonly (and now very rarely in countries where blood is screened for HIV antibodies), through transfusions of infected blood or blood clotting factors