HIV can also be easily spread from bodily fluids such as blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, rectal fluids, vaginal fluids and even breast milk. ... 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. ...

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Has anyone of you ever thought about AIDS before having sex without protection? ... Babies born to HIV-infected women may become infected before or during birth, through breast-feeding after birth. ... 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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You can also have fewer sex partners which mean the less sex partners you have you'll reduces your chances of getting HIV infection. ... If a mother has HIV you should not breast feed a child cause HIV can be transmitted through the mother's breast milk. ...

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The virus can be contracted from having unprotected sex, sharing needles, be given to a baby from its mother, or through any type of blood transfusion. The HIV virus is carried through blood, semen, vaginal fluid, and breast milk. ... Blood has the highest content of the virus, followed by semen, vaginal fluid, and finally breast milk. Breast milk has a low content of the virus that may not be harful to adults, but to babys it is a higher risk. ...

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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. ... The four ways in which we know this virus can be contracted is through blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and breast milk. ... It has been said that the entire population of Africa will be depleted by the years 2008, This is because the people ...

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Throughout this paper I will be emphasizing the importance of practicing safe sex with the use of condoms. ... Human Immunodeficiency Virus can be transmitted through sexual intercourse, injection drug use, blood, bodily fluids and pregnant women onto their fetus and breast milk. ... This creates a severe issue, if the person infected has unsafe sex, now they've infected another person unknowingly, and it can become a continuous cycle. ... As a result of an individual being a carrier, they continue to have a regular sexual pattern, and transmit HIV to their sex partner. ...

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Another way to transmit HIV through sexual activities is through oral sex (mouth-penis, mouth-vagina). ... It is possible for an HIV-infected mother to pass the virus directly before or during birth, or even through breast milk. ...

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Through transfer of the virus from an infected mother to her infant before or during birth, or shortly after birth through breast-feeding. ... It is important to realize that the leading modes of HIV transmission in the United States, sex between men and injection drug use, are different from the leading mode of transmission worldwide, which is heterosexual intercourse. ... In the United States, Canada and most of Europe, most cases of sexual transmission have occurred between men having sex with men, but cases due to heterosexual transmission increased more than sixfold from 1985 to 19...

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Many people in the United States uses marijuana but do they know the effects. A lot of people also use the drug because they think that they are cool if they do use it. People also use the drug to escape from problems that they have. So in my paper I will inform these people what they are doing to t...

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History of AIDS 3 AIDS: A growing epidemic What is the first thing you think about when you hear the word AIDS? Most people think of a deadly virus that is transmitted by sex, needles, or blood transfusions. Then there are those who believe that one can get AIDS by hugging someone. Many of the...

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