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THE MOST COMMON WAYS HIV IS SPREAD ARE:
- By having unprotected anal, vaginal, or oral sex with
one who is infected with HIV.
- By sharing needles or syringes ("works") with someone
who is infected with HIV.
- From mothers to their babies before the baby is born,
during birth, or through breast-feeding.
- Both men and women, including teenagers, can pass
HIV to a sex partner, whether he or she is the same sex
or the opposite sex
- People can get infected with HIV through sharing needles,
cookers, or cottons (works) with someone who is infected.
This can happen even when the person passing the works
looks clean and healthy.
- Earlier in the AIDS epidemic some people became
infected through blood transfusions, blood products (such as
clotting factors given to people with hemophilia), or organ or
tissue transplants.
- Health care workers, such as nurses, risk getting infected
if they are stuck with a needle containing infected blood or
splashed with infected blood in the eyes, nose, mouth, or
on open cuts or sores.
- In a few cases, a person sharing a house with a person
with HIV infection or taking care of a person with AIDS has
become infected themselves. These infections may have been
caused by sharing a razor, getting blood from the infected
person into open cuts or sores, or some other way of having
contact with blood from the infected person. If you are taking
care of a person with HIV infection,carefully follow the steps
on protecting yourself from infection.
- Although small amounts of HIV have been found in body
fluids like saliva, feces, urine, and tears, there is no evidence
that HIV can spread through these body fluids
- Medical science is confident about these basic facts:
You can't get HIV or AIDS from touching someone, sharing
items such as cups or pencils, or coughing or sneezing. HIV
is not spread through routine contact in restaurants, workpla
-ces, or schools.
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