how do you get aids?

Question

can you get aids from birth or only if you have sex with a person who has aids? explain to me please.

Answer 1

AIDS develops AFTER the person has contracted HIV. AIDS is the advanced stage of HIV. AIDS and complications from AIDS is what a person dies from.

HIV can be contracted by birth (if the mother has HIV/AIDS), through sex (vaginal, oral, and anal), by sharing needles/syringes with a person who has HIV/AIDS, or by a blood transfusion with HIV/AIDS infected blood.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/

Answer 2

AIDS/HIV is transmitted in bodily fluid exchange.

It can be transmitted via sexual contact (homosexual AND heterosexual), blood transfusions, breast feeding, blood exchange in childbirth, sharing intravenous needles and a variety of other means.

If a mother has Aids, the baby can be infected in utero, during birth or if breast fed. Some are lucky enough to survive all these risks, but end up orphaned at a young age. Sad.

Answer 3

there are many ways to get aids. All involve contact with blood and body fluids. Be safe! Use condoms!

Answer 4

Babies can be born with AIDS if their mother is HIV positive, but sometimes the mother can be HIV positive and the baby can be HIV negative. Not sure why.

Answer 5

orriganally it got out from a lab somewhere, now most of the population has some form of it

Answer 6

you can get it as an infant if your mother has it. It is contracted through fluids, mostly blood and semen.

Answer 7

blood to blood transfer.

Answer 8

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Mark “the Spark” Foster
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