how does one get affected by aids?

Question

how does one contract aids

Answer 1

AIDS is the disease caused by the HIV virus.

You can get infected with HIV if the virus passes into your body from someone else who is already infected.

There are two main ways this can happen:

1. Through having unprotected (no condom) vaginal or anal sex with someone who has HIV. Oral sex carries a small risk of transmission. There has never been a reported case of transmission through kissing (even deep kissing).

2. Through someone else's infected blood getting directly into your bloodstream, for example through sharing drug or tattoo needles or injecting equipment, or piercing with unsterile equipment. In the first half of the 1980s a number of people were infected from contaminated blood transfusions, but this is very rare now because blood donations are screened. Sometimes HIV is passed from an infected mother to her foetus either in the womb or during birth.

You CANNOT get HIV through normal non sexual contact, or from sharing eating utensils or from mosquitoes.

Answer 2

AIDS is caused by a virus. This virus proliferates in the bodily fluids of those infected with HIV or AIDS. It is spread only through direct fluid transfer (no you can't get it from an HIV positive person sneezing on you) the most common cause is unprotected sex. the only birth control that will prevent aids 90 some odd percent of the time if used correctly is a condom, and the only failsafe way is not having sex. After sex, blood contact is next. if you come into contact with infected blood either through an open wound, or an appropriate membrane (ie the eyes and mouth) there is a chance that the virus will infect you. sharing needles, performing first aid on an infected person without proper shielding (ie gloves and a one way mask to perfrom AR through) are the highest risk factors.

Answer 3

The Battle Against AIDS---Will It Be Won?
- The Epidemic Continues
- How to Fight It
- AIDS--What Hope For the Future?
http://watchtower.org/library/g/1998/11/8/article_01.htm

Answer 4

Blood - biggest risk through transfusion with infected blood or sharing needles (drug use)
Sex - Anal sex biggest risk, followed by vaginal
Birth- an HIV infected mother can pass it to the child during delivery, if certain drugs aren't taken in advance.
That's it---you can't get it from kissing, holding hands, swimming, sharing food/utensils, using the toilet, mosquitos.

Answer 5

thru blood to blood contact open wounds , transfered bodly fluids