HIV is carried in certain body fluids including blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk. These fluids can be contacted from an infected person through sexual contact, sharing of needles, during birth and from breast feeding. ... 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 bisex...

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The Pill has also been linked to heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and cervical cancer. ... Like the Pill, it has also been linked the breast cancer. ... Some women have menstrual irregularities and weight gain, and it may also increase the risk of breast cancer in younger women. ... The diaphragm, one of the oldest forms of birth control, is a disk shaped shallow cup that is filled with spermicidal cream or jelly and is inserted into the vaginal cavity prior to having sex. ... Another way to get the virus is by oral sex. ...

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HIV can also be transmitted from an HIV infected mother to newborn, through child birth and breast milk. ... "Bisexual, gay, and other men who have sex with men, particularly young African American men, are most seriously affected by HIV.... HIV can be transmitted directly by sexual contact with infected person, infected breast milk, and from infected mother to newborn during child birth. ... Primary prevention would be identifying at risks individuals, and providing education and handing out condoms for safe sex practices, before HIV is contracted. ... HIV can be prevented by providing e...

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People who have unprotected sex are most likely to contract a STD, those who have multiple partners, and whose sex partners include drug users who share needles. ... Most STDs are spread while having sex, but other forms of sexual contact, such as oral sex, can also spread disease. ... The disease enters the baby's bloodstream during childbirth as the baby passes through the birth canal, or after birth if the mother nurses the baby and her breast milk is infected. ... Women who are infected with HIV can pass the virus to their infants during childbirth or, less likely in breast milk. ... ...

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Another way to transmit an STI is mother to infant at birth or during breast feeding (Mayo, "Risk"). ... The organisms that cause sexually transmitted infections may pass person to person in the blood, semen, vaginal secretions and breast milk; despite belief a person cannot contract an STI from saliva. ... The most effective way to avoid STIs is to abstain from sex completely. ... HPV can also be transmitted during oral sex. ... Following steps of prevention each and every time someone has sex, can help just the tiniest bit. ...

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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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Many teens are scared of opening up about their sex life to their parents because they believe that their parents might disown them or stop them from having sex. ... Therefore, teens have a safer home and peace of mind when their parents know nothing about their sex life. ... With or without a parent's approval, teenagers will still have sex and use oral contraceptives regardless. ... To encourage safe sex, birth control pills have been made legal in many states and teenage girls have the right to access it. ... That way, teenagers can either stay away from having sex or decide to open u...

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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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There are also often viewed as a disease in itself, a breeder of criminals, militia and sex workers. Ten percent of the six million people who have AIDS are children, due to mother-to-child-transmission or soon after birth through breast-feeding. ...

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Testosterone is responsible for the development of secondary male sex characteristics, the promotion of muscle increase, stimulation of the metabolism, and puberty ("A Steroids" 1). ... There are many physical side effects in men even though anabolic steroids are derived from a male sex hormone. Several of these side effects include reduced sperm count, impotence, breast development, shrinking of the testicles and difficulty while urinating. ... These side effects include facial hair growth, deepened voice, breast reduction, and menstrual cycle changes (Anabolic Steroids, Drugs" 3). ...

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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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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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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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Most often, genital herpes is caused by the type 2 virus, though it should be noted that type 1 can be transmitted to the genitals during oral sex. ... It can be passed from a mother to a baby through breast milk. ... A person can avoid sex. ... Deciding to postpone sex is the most defensive action a person can take. ...

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It's a hot, sunny day and two beautiful women with humongous breasts, slim waists and long luscious legs, rip each other's clothes off while splashing around in a shallow pool of water. ... Sex appeal is one of the most effective forms of advertising in modern popular culture. ... Of the five magazines, I choose twenty-five different advertisements to examine: ten of women only, ten of men only and five that were mixed sexes. ... There are many studies confirming the correlation between sexually explicit material and certain types of sex crimes. ...

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War is raging in Africa, and thousands are killed each day. The ammunition is a silent, yet deadly disease. The war is AIDS. According to South African President Nelson Mandella in l997, AIDS "is a threat that puts on the balance the future of nations." In l998, 200,00 Sub Saharan Africans died in...

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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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