whats is aids im confused?

Question

its a disease but i dont know that much about it help me please can u prevent this and how???

Answer 1

Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome is a terrible, potentially fatal health condition. You get it by getting the HIV virus that causes it into your bloodstream. It's caught by having sex with an infected person, or by shooting up drugs from a syringe already used by an infected person, and, rarely, by a pregnant mom who has it giving it to her baby, or someone getting a blood transfusion from an infected person.

You can prevent getting it by not having sex, by having sex only with people who don't have HIV infection (but people can have it and not even know, so abstinence is best), and not shooting up drugs. Hospitals and bloodbanks test blood carefully these days, so it's now very, very unusual to get it that way. The disease is potentially fatal and has loads of lousy symptoms, but with careful health care and a bunch of expensive drugs for life, you might not die soon. But prevention is definitely best!!!!!!

You won't get it from ordinary contact that doesn't involve getting the infected person's germs into your blood. So, shaking hands, hugging, a brief nonpassionate kiss, taking a sip from their drink, doorknobs, toilets, etc., are NOT ways you can get HIV infection. Human Immunodeficiency Virus is the germ; when it fully infects you and causes a few symptoms, it's called AIDS. If you have any HIV germs in you, that's "being HIV positive," although you may have no symptoms -- it often takes a long time to show up, and meanwhile you don't know you have it (and you could be passing it to others if you have sex with them or share drug needles).

Someone could ask you to have sex and they think you're safe because they don't realize they have it, or they have it and are lying to you. It's so serious a disease that it's best not to take chances.

Answer 2

AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus. The virus is transmitted by transfer of blood and bodily fluids. This can happen through sex (oral, vaginal, anal) or blood transfusions. It can be prevented by abstinence from sex (not likely) but the chances of contracting the virus can be greatly lessened by practicing safe sex (using condoms, having one partner etc.). Transmission through blood transfusion is hardly likely since blood is very carefully screened. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

You can prevent it by having safe sex. It is a disease that flows through the blood and you can't get away. It kills you eventually. It is only transmitted through blood. If you drink someones blood. If someone's mouth is bleeding and they take a drink and you drink outta their cup you can get it, and by sex.

Just be careful!

Answer 4

Go to this site
www.aids.org

And read up on it.......that should do it :) And i'm glad you are interested in learning about it and preventing it. Because it's a life long disease that has no cure and is very very serious business. Please read up on it....good to see someone asking instead of avoiding it completely

Answer 5

99% chance that condoms will prevent it. Abstinence is the only 100% way though. (Especially because condoms can brake, and the less experienced the guy is the more likely it is that this will happen.)

Answer 6

in the commencing up, you do no longer could be gay to get HIV/AIDS. 2d, you do no longer could have anal intercourse to get HIV/AIDS. Any changing of surely fluids would reason somebody to get it IF AND on project that different man or woman already has it. between the companions HAS TO have already have been given IT. it relatively is a perilous affliction, it does no longer basically materialize.

Answer 7

there are sites like knowaidshiv.org (?) that explain it better but-- it is a virus. it gts transmitted through bodily fluids from an infected person, except usuallly NOT saliva. you get infected by having sex with an infected person or sharing drug needles with an infected person.

Answer 8

Yes you can prevent it by not having sex.