Has anyone of you ever thought about AIDS before having sex without protection? ... You can take anonymous or confidential testing. Confidential testing means, that you are identified and the results are recorded in medical files and are not revealed without written permission. Anonymous testing means that name and other identifying information is not linked with results and only individuals can find out test results. ... Sex is an important part of human's life and it is not exactly optimistic that we have to connect sex with death. ...

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The only true way to know if you have been infected is to get tested, you can get tested with your doctor or even buy a test at a drug store. You should get tested after having any type of unprotected sex of if you're participating in sexual activity with someone who may be HIV Positive. If you are consensually participating in sex with someone who may be HIV positive, make sure to always use a condom correctly. ... If you are engaging in consensual sex, it is very important to use a condom to be safe. ... Remember to always get tested in case you think you are at risk of being infected....

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Testing for the HIV virus is a simple blood , saliva, or urine test. Testing can be done anonymously at your Local County Health Services, your private doctor, and at various AIDS organizations. ... Who should be tested? ... For information about testing, treatment, and counseling in our local area, contact any if the following agencies. Foothill Aids Project: Inland Aids: San Bernardino County AIDS Testing: Location: 6527 White Feather Road, Joshua Tree. ...

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HIV and AIDS AIDS and HIV are both very serious conditions that can occur within the body if one does not take care of themselves and practice safe sex. ... For one to contract HIV they must either have unprotected sex with someone who has the virus or have an open wound and some one with infected blood manages to come in contact with it. ... In this day and age we don't need to worry so much about blood transfusion because now they test blood donors for AIDS or the virus causing AIDS, HIV. ... The CDC suggested that they use the Hepatitis B test. This test was very costly and...

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People who have a positive blood test for the virus are said to be HIV positive. ... Although HIV was first identified among homosexual men in San Francisco in the early 1980s, it is now found throughout the world among both sexes. ... This is due to many reasons as to people who indulge in high risk sexual behavior such as having unprotected sex with sexual active homosexual men, prostitutes or the female sexual partners of bisexual men. ... Churches have also developed programs to show parents how to teach their children about sex and giving guidelines to young couples in safe sex. ...

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Aids has become an epidemic, and is spreading quickly because of unsafe sex acts. ... AIDS is diagnosed through HIV antibody testing and through identification of one of the opportunistic infections associated with AIDS. The virus itself is hard to isolate, but blood tests can detect antibodies to HIV, indicating infection with the virus. ...

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Another way to transmit HIV through sexual activities is through oral sex (mouth-penis, mouth-vagina). ... Ever since 1985, all blood in the U.S. has been screened with the HIV antibody test. ... As you go to the doctor we all may already know this but the doctor must interpret HIV test and results. There is a test in which the CD4 count indicates now how much damage HIV has caused to the immune system. ...

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Most people think of a deadly virus that is transmitted by sex, needles, or blood transfusions. ... Now, scientists have developed a test that allows blood banks to screen all blood to make sure there is no sign of AIDS or HIV (Siegal & Siegal, 1993, p. 88). ...

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Researchers have successfully profiled the HIV strains that are most likely to be transmitted during sex. ... One group of scientists that work out of the National Institute of Health Vaccine Research Center in Bethesda, Maryland are already using these profiles to decide which vaccines to put into further testing. ... From analysis and testing it is almost certain that HIV-1 entered the human population from the chimpanzee. ...

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Those sexually active adults and teenagers, especially those who have had more than one sexual partner in the last six months, those who have had unprotected sex, or those who have had, or are currently having a homosexual relationship. ... After the blood is collected several tests are done to ensure that Hepatitis B will not be passed to the recipient of the transfusion. ... A simple blood test can determine whether someone is a Hepatitis B carrier. ... For those infants born to mothers who test negative to Hepatitis B they should receive the vaccination within one to two months following de...

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