Aids

            
             What is AIDS? Is it this mysterious word that people don't understand.
             Even though we don't have a cure for AIDS doesn't.
             mean we don't understand it, how it works and how to prevent people from.
             getting it. Yet last year there were twenty thousand men and women.
             diagnosed with some form of AIDS or HIV between the ages of twenty-four.
             and forty. The number of young people has more than doubled in the last six.
             years. So for those of you who don't understand the risk here we go.
             AIDS stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS is.
             caused by HIV- Human Immunodeficiency Virus. AIDS is the fifth leading.
             cause of death among persons twenty-five threw forty-four beating out.
             suicide and homicide. There are forty-seven million persons world wide.
             infected with HIV; most don't even know they have it.
             HIV attacks the Immune system which leaves the body vulnerable to.
             common bacteria and parasites turning them into threatening illnesses and.
             sometimes cancer. HIV has been found in Saliva, tears, nervous system.
             tissue, blood, semen, vaginal fluid and breast milk. HIV is a blood born.
             pathogen and can only be transmitted through transferable blood, semen,.
             vaginal fluid and breast milk.
             HIV and AIDS are transmitted mostly through sexual contact, blood,.
             and mother to child. A mother infected with the virus has a 75% chance of.
             passing it on to the child through breast-feeding or from conception. Other.
             ways to contract the virus can be from accidental needle injury, Artificial.
             insemination, or through a donated organ. HIV is not transmitted through.
             casual contact such as hugging, touching, kissing or by mosquitoes. People.
             at high risk for contracting the virus include homosexual or bisexual men.
             engaging in unprotected sex. There are three stages to AIDS until you get.
             full blown AIDS. 1) HIV infection 2) Early a-symptomatic HIV and 3) Early.
             symptomatic HIV.
             The only way to prevent yourself from getting AIDS or other sexually.