Preventing Transmission
Your risk of getting HIV or passing it to someone else depends on several things. Do you know what they are? You might want to talk to someone who knows about HIV. There is only one way to prevent contracting as well as spreading the epidemic:
Abstain from sex (do not have oral, anal, or vaginal sex) until you are in a marital relationship with only one person, are having sex with only each other, and each of you knows the other’s HIV status. Talk to someone you can trust. If you're heading down the wrong path, tell a friend, youth leader or parent—anyone you can trust to hold you accountable. There's a word for someone who tries to fight sexual temptation alone: failure.
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. This is the virus that causes AIDS. HIV is different from most other viruses because it attacks the immune system. The immune system gives our bodies the ability to fight infections. HIV finds and destroys a type of white blood cell (T cells or CD4 cells) that the immune system must have to fight disease.
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. AIDS is the final stage of HIV infection. It can take years for a person infected with HIV, even without treatment, to reach this stage. Having AIDS means that the virus has weakened the immune system to the point at which the body has a difficult time fighting infection. When someone has one or more specific infections, certain cancers, or a very low number of T cells, he or she is considered to have AIDS. How HIV Is and Is Not Transmitted HIV is a fragile virus. It cannot live for very long outside the body. As a result, the virus is not transmitted through day-to-day activities such as shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, drinking fountain, door knob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, or pets. You also cannot get HIV from mosquitoes.HIV is primarily found in the blood, semen, or vaginal fluid of an infected person. HIV is transmitted in 3 main ways: Having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with someone infected with HIV Sharing needles and syringes with someone infected with HIV Being exposed (fetus or infant) to HIV before or during birth or through breast feeding HIV also can be transmitted through blood infected with HIV. However, since 1985, all donated blood in the United States has been tested for HIV. Therefore, the risk for HIV infection through the transfusion of blood or blood products is extremely low. The U.S. blood supply is considered among the safest in the world. For more information click here
How HIV Is and Is Not Transmitted HIV is a fragile virus. It cannot live for very long outside the body. As a result, the virus is not transmitted through day-to-day activities such as shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, drinking fountain, door knob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, or pets. You also cannot get HIV from mosquitoes.HIV is primarily found in the blood, semen, or vaginal fluid of an infected person. HIV is transmitted in 3 main ways: Having sex (anal, vaginal, or oral) with someone infected with HIV Sharing needles and syringes with someone infected with HIV Being exposed (fetus or infant) to HIV before or during birth or through breast feeding HIV also can be transmitted through blood infected with HIV. However, since 1985, all donated blood in the United States has been tested for HIV. Therefore, the risk for HIV infection through the transfusion of blood or blood products is extremely low. The U.S. blood supply is considered among the safest in the world. For more information click here
HIV is a fragile virus. It cannot live for very long outside the body. As a result, the virus is not transmitted through day-to-day activities such as shaking hands, hugging, or a casual kiss. You cannot become infected from a toilet seat, drinking fountain, door knob, dishes, drinking glasses, food, or pets. You also cannot get HIV from mosquitoes.
HIV also can be transmitted through blood infected with HIV. However, since 1985, all donated blood in the United States has been tested for HIV. Therefore, the risk for HIV infection through the transfusion of blood or blood products is extremely low. The U.S. blood supply is considered among the safest in the world.
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Risk Factors for HIV Transmission You may be at increased risk for infection if you have:injected drugs or steroids, during which equipment (such as needles, syringes, cotton, water) and blood were shared with others had unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sex (that is, sex without using condoms) with men who have sex with men, multiple partners, or anonymous partners exchanged sex for drugs or moneybeen given a diagnosis of, or been treated for, hepatitis, tuberculosis (TB), or a sexually transmitted disease (STD) such as syphilis received a blood transfusion or clotting factor during 1978–1985 had unprotected sex with someone who has any of the risk factors listed above Symptoms of HIV Infection The only way to know whether you are infected is to be tested for HIV. You cannot rely on symptoms alone because many people who are infected with HIV do not have symptoms for many years. Someone can look and feel healthy but can still be infected. In fact, one quarter of the HIV-infected persons in the United States do not know that they are infected. Finding a Testing Site Many places offer HIV testing: health departments, doctors' offices, hospitals, and sites specifically set up to provide HIV testing. You can locate a testing site by visiting the CDC HIV testing database or by calling CDC-INFO (formerly the CDC National AIDS Hotline) at 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) 24 Hours/Day. You do not have to give any personal information about yourself to use these services to find a testing site.
You may be at increased risk for infection if you have:
injected drugs or steroids, during which equipment (such as needles, syringes, cotton, water) and blood were shared with others
had unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sex (that is, sex without using condoms) with men who have sex with men, multiple partners, or anonymous partners
exchanged sex for drugs or money
had unprotected sex with someone who has any of the risk factors listed above
Symptoms of HIV Infection The only way to know whether you are infected is to be tested for HIV. You cannot rely on symptoms alone because many people who are infected with HIV do not have symptoms for many years. Someone can look and feel healthy but can still be infected. In fact, one quarter of the HIV-infected persons in the United States do not know that they are infected. Finding a Testing Site Many places offer HIV testing: health departments, doctors' offices, hospitals, and sites specifically set up to provide HIV testing. You can locate a testing site by visiting the CDC HIV testing database or by calling CDC-INFO (formerly the CDC National AIDS Hotline) at 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) 24 Hours/Day. You do not have to give any personal information about yourself to use these services to find a testing site.
The only way to know whether you are infected is to be tested for HIV. You cannot rely on symptoms alone because many people who are infected with HIV do not have symptoms for many years. Someone can look and feel healthy but can still be infected. In fact, one quarter of the HIV-infected persons in the United States do not know that they are infected.
Finding a Testing Site Many places offer HIV testing: health departments, doctors' offices, hospitals, and sites specifically set up to provide HIV testing. You can locate a testing site by visiting the CDC HIV testing database or by calling CDC-INFO (formerly the CDC National AIDS Hotline) at 1-800-CDC-INFO
Many places offer HIV testing: health departments, doctors' offices, hospitals, and sites specifically set up to provide HIV testing.
You can locate a testing site by visiting the CDC HIV testing database or by calling CDC-INFO (formerly the CDC National AIDS Hotline) at 1-800-CDC-INFO
(1-800-232-4636) 24 Hours/Day. You do not have to give any personal information about yourself to use these services to find a testing site.
If you are in the GLEAMNS region of South Carolina, you can call the Upper Savannah Care Consortium at 1.800.604.4045 or 864-229-9029. You can find out more information about their services at www.usccgleams.org . They serve Greemwood, Laurens, Edgefield, Abbeville, McCormick, and Saluda Counties of South Carolina and are federally funded by the Ryan White CARE Act.
Enfermedades de transmisión sexual
Hojas informativas Clamidia Gonorrea Enfermedades de transmisión sexual y embarazo Enfermedad inflamatoria pélvica (EIP) Herpes genital Infección genital por VPH LGV Sífilis Sífilis y los hombres que tienen relaciones sexuales con hombres Tricomoniasis Vaginosis bacteriana (VB) El VPH y los hombres
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Bacterial Vaginosis
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Chlamydia
Genital HPV Infection
HPV and Men
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HPV Vaccine Information for Young Women
HPV Vaccine Information for Clinicians
Genital Herpes
Gonorrhea
Antibiotic Resistant Gonorrhea
Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV)
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
STD Detection and Treatment in HIV Prevention
STDs and Pregnancy
Syphilis
Trichomoniasis
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