Wednesday, 21 September 2011

How is HIV passed on?

HIV is found in the blood and sexual fluid of an infected person, and in the breast milk of an infected women. There are many ways to get infect by HIV:
Unprotect sex is one way of passing on HIV to another. Having sex without any protection can carry the risk of HIV.
Second way of passing on HIV is drug uses, for example sharing needles in drugs can pass on HIV. When someone that is infected by HIV and they share drugs needle without cleaning can have a very high risk of getting HIV.
HIV can also be transmitted from infected mothers to there baby during pregnancy. It can be pass on to there baby by delivering and breastfeeding, but now there pills where the mother takes which prevent them from passing HIV to their baby.
A contact with a persons blood that is infect can also be another way of transmitting HIV. This is because someone with HIV enters someone else bloodstream which causes HIV.
These are different ways of transmitting HIV.

This is the site:
http://www.avert.org/hiv.htm

7 comments:

  1. The info you have given is great but your link does not work. Thanks to u i now know more on HIV.

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  2. I agree this is good information to start with ... but what does it all mean? what's the big deal??? there are so many diseases in the world why is HIV such an issue?

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  3. It means HIV can be past on in different ways, and HIV is a serious problem in the world because you can die from it. HIV is such an issue because, you can die from it, and it can be easily be pass on to different people without them knowing about it, and its trying to tell you how it can be pass on and what to do and not to do to stop the HIV from be transmitted to others.

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  4. ok i can see that... but why is HIV such a big deal... why not worry about other big diseases????

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  5. Nice, but your link doesnt and what is the main piont of this whole thing

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  6. finally ur link works!!! good work now i understand more than just a paragraph .

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  7. are there differences between how we deal with this issue in the developed world and the developing world?

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