HOW IS HIV/AIDS TRANSMITTED?
HIV/AIDS is transmitted by:
• Unprotected sexual intercourse (that is without using a condom) with a HIV infected person.
• Receiving HIV infected blood or blood products, using unsterilized needles and syringes, or during intravenous drug abuse when sharing needles and syringes with an HIV infected person.
• From a HIV infected pregnant mother to her baby (transmission by this route can be prevented by counseling the mother about the drugs available, hospitals who will care for her at delivery and infant feeding choices).
HIV/AIDS does not transmit by casual contact such as holding hands, body contact in crowded public places, working together, playing together, hugging, kissing on the cheeks or lightly on the lips, through saliva, sneezing, coughing, through mosquitoes and insect bites, food cooked by an HIV positive person, drinking from the same glass or cup, eating from the same plate, sharing the same telephones, bathrooms, toilets, beds, washing the clothes in the same bucket, and using the same swimming pool.
HIV/AIDS is transmitted by:
• Unprotected sexual intercourse (that is without using a condom) with a HIV infected person.
• Receiving HIV infected blood or blood products, using unsterilized needles and syringes, or during intravenous drug abuse when sharing needles and syringes with an HIV infected person.
• From a HIV infected pregnant mother to her baby (transmission by this route can be prevented by counseling the mother about the drugs available, hospitals who will care for her at delivery and infant feeding choices).
HIV/AIDS does not transmit by casual contact such as holding hands, body contact in crowded public places, working together, playing together, hugging, kissing on the cheeks or lightly on the lips, through saliva, sneezing, coughing, through mosquitoes and insect bites, food cooked by an HIV positive person, drinking from the same glass or cup, eating from the same plate, sharing the same telephones, bathrooms, toilets, beds, washing the clothes in the same bucket, and using the same swimming pool.
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