What are the ways someone can contract HIV?
How long does someone live with HIV?
What are some of the stereotypes of people who are infected with HIV?
Who is at risk for contracting HIV?
What are the risky behaviors?
2006-11-21 13:44:53 · 3 answers · asked by Lil D 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ STDs
You contact HIV usually through unprotected sex, sharing needles, or blood transfusions, basically body fluids and open wounds. Anyone is at risk for it because people who have it might not know at first and be spreading it to others, the stereotypes are usually hookers, gay people, drug users, street people but that's not really true because anyone can get it or be born with it, we just all like to think it won't happen to us. Risky behaviors are unprotected sex, sharing needles, and open wounds that bleed and anyone else with an open wound touching something can pick up germs. It depends on the person as to how long they live. Some believe saliva can spread germs, others don't. I would just be all around careful if I was around someone I knew that could possibly be infected.
2006-11-21 13:52:06 · answer #1 · answered by Tina of Lymphland.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HIV can be contracted from body fluid comming in contact with a musus membrane. It is a very unstable virus and will die very quicky once out of the body. People can live for many years (20-50 years) with the virus. People at risk of contracting HIV are those that participate in risky behaviour such as needle use, homosexuals, people who have unprotected sex with many partners etc.
2006-11-21 15:00:27 · answer #2 · answered by Drmonte 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THAT IF YOU SLEEP WITH AMAN YOU CAN CATCH IT FROM THEM AND YOU CAN GET IT AND YOU DONT EVEN KNOW ABOUT IT CAN LAST FOR EVER
2006-11-21 13:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by MISS.CHRISBROWN 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋