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About AIDS

Is there a connection between HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)?

Yes.  If you become infected with another STD (such as syphilis, gonorrhea, or herpes), you are three to five times more likely to pass HIV
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If I am living with HIV and pregnant, will my baby have HIV too?

Not Necessarily.  If you are treated with HIV drugs early in the pregnancy, the risk of passing the virus to your baby can be 2% ...
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Can I pass HIV to someone else by doing things like shaking hands?

No.  HIV is not spread through everyday contact at school, work, or in social settings.  HIV cannot be caught from things like a handshake, a ...
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How is HIV spread?

The most common way that HIV is spread is sexual activity (anal, vaginal, or oral) with a person living with HIV.  Sharing needles or works ...
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How does HIV cause AIDS?

HIV destroys certain kinds of blood cells (called CD4 cells) that are important to your immune system, which is what protects your body from disease.  ...
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I wanted to know more regarding the spread of HIV. Can it spread by drinking water containing say a few blood drops of an HIV infected person?

HIV can only be spread three ways: Thru sex, thru breast milk and thru blood. If the little boy had a cut and the waiters ...
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What is the difference between HIV and AIDS?

AIDS – Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome is a disease which has the symptoms of loss of weight, muscle wasting, an inability to fight of infections ...
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How do you fight AIDS?

AIDS and HIV infection are preventable, and a person who is suffering from Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome can be treated by the use of anti-HIV drugs, ...
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Where did HIV, the virus that causes AIDS originate?

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS was first noticed in the early 1980s and it has been a puzzle where it actually came from. There ...
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How many People have AIDS?

Global HIV/AIDS estimates, end of 2007 The latest statistics on the world epidemic of AIDS & HIV were published by UNAIDS/WHO in July 2008, and refer ...
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