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How can you get aids
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a disease that makes it difficult for the body to fight off infectious diseases. The human immunodeficiency virus known as HIV causes AIDS by infecting and damaging part of the body\'s defenses against infection, namely the white blood cells known as CD4 helper lymphocytes
You don\'t actually "get" AIDS. You might get infected with HIV, and later you might develop AIDS. You can get infected with HIV from anyone who\'s infected, even if they don\'t look sick and even if they haven\'t tested HIV-positive yet. The blood, vaginal fluid, semen, and breast milk of people infected with HIV has enough of the virus in it to infect other people. Most people get the HIV virus by:
How can you get aids? Cause 1- Having sex with an already Aids affected victim.
How can you get aids? Cause 2 - Sharing the infected needle (shooting drugs) with someone who\'s infected
How can you get aids? Cause 3 - Born to a mother who is infected with aids.
Getting a blood transfusion of infected blood used to be a way people got AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), but now the blood supply is screened very carefully and the risk is very low.
There are no recognized cases of HIV being transmitted by tears or saliva, but it is likely to be infected with HIV through oral sex or in rare cases through deep kissing, especially if you have open sores in your mouth or bleeding gums.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) approximate that 1 to 1.2 million United States residents are living with HIV infection or AIDS; about a quarter of them do not know they have it. About 75 percent of the 40,000 new infections each year are in men, and about 25 percent in women. About half of the new infections are in Blacks, even though they make up only 12 percent of the United States population.
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