how do you get aids?

Answer 1

You have to first be infected with HIV, which is the virus that leads to AIDS. You can get that virus in several ways, most common are (for men) unsafe homosexual intercourse (primarily the most risk in this instance is when a man is the "receptive" partner in the unsafe intercourse), or for anyone sharing needles or using unclean needles in any way (primarily this has been through drug use, but could even be with such a thing as unclean tattoing needles), living a lifestyle of constant ongoing promiscuity and not using condoms in general is a huge risk factor, whether one is homosexual or heterosexual.

Once you have HIV it could take years and years (especially nowadays with the treatments available) to develop into AIDS. A person is defined as having AIDS once their T cell count (immune cell count) drops to 200 or lower (average healthy people usually have over 1000, but once infected with HIV it begins to drop slowly but surely). Or, a person is defined as having AIDS once they have experienced one of the "opportunistic infections" which attacks people with drastically lowered immune systems and are known as AIDS related illnesses, such as the skin lesions of Kaposi's sarcoma, a brutal type of lung infection called pneumocystic pneumonia, "wasting syndrome" (where the patient loses huge amounts of weight and body fat), or cytomegalovirus (which , in its retinal form, causes partial or total blindness).

Until one or more of those things has occurred, the dropping of the Tcells to 200 or lower, and or one or more of the AIDS related illnesses, a person with HIV is usually called just HIV positive asymptomatic (no illnesses yet, and above 200 Tcells; Magic Johnson is still like this; HIV positive, but not yet technically a person with AIDS).

Answer 2

By swopping bodily fluids(blood, spit, sperm etc.) with an infected person. You will first get the HIV virus and then the virus causes AIDS. It might take a year or it might take 20 years to appear, but eventually AIDS occurs.

Answer 3

If your body fluid touches an AIDS infected fluid or needle. That's why doctors use one-time use needles.

Answer 4

By having sex with an infected person. Or getting blood or other bodily fluids from an infected person.

Answer 5

Are you trying to get it?

Answer 6

by improper sex with a prostitute