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<blockquote data-quote="Fighting4yourRights" data-source="post: 227383" data-attributes="member: 10388"><p><span style="color: #003366"><strong>Detailed Answer:</strong></span> AIDS (a result of HIV infection) is caused by a virus (HIV) that spreads through blood-to-blood or sexual contact with someone who has the virus. HIV can also be spread from a mother with HIV to her baby during pregnancy or through breast feeding. The body fluids that transmit HIV are blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk and other body fluids containing blood. The principal ways that people become infected with HIV are through: •</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Sharing needles and syringes with someone who has the virus.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"><strong>Having sex -- vaginal, oral or anal -- with someone who has the virus. </strong></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A baby’s exposure to his or her HIV-positive mother during pregnancy or birth or through breast feeding.</li> </ul><p>Before testing began in 1985, some people became infected with HIV through receiving blood transfusions, blood components or blood clotting factors, or through transplants of organs infected with the virus. Since 1985, testing of blood products and organs for transplants has improved greatly, and such transmission is very rare now. The virus does not spread from person to person by casual everyday contact, nor does it spread through the air or in water.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fighting4yourRights, post: 227383, member: 10388"] [COLOR=#003366][B]Detailed Answer:[/B][/COLOR] AIDS (a result of HIV infection) is caused by a virus (HIV) that spreads through blood-to-blood or sexual contact with someone who has the virus. HIV can also be spread from a mother with HIV to her baby during pregnancy or through breast feeding. The body fluids that transmit HIV are blood, semen, vaginal fluids, breast milk and other body fluids containing blood. The principal ways that people become infected with HIV are through: • [LIST] [*]Sharing needles and syringes with someone who has the virus. [*][B]Having sex -- vaginal, oral or anal -- with someone who has the virus. [/B] [*]A baby’s exposure to his or her HIV-positive mother during pregnancy or birth or through breast feeding. [/LIST] Before testing began in 1985, some people became infected with HIV through receiving blood transfusions, blood components or blood clotting factors, or through transplants of organs infected with the virus. Since 1985, testing of blood products and organs for transplants has improved greatly, and such transmission is very rare now. The virus does not spread from person to person by casual everyday contact, nor does it spread through the air or in water. [/QUOTE]
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