Saturday, September 17, 2011

How is transmitted HIV ?

How is transmitted HIV ?




The prevalence of HIV is more prevalent in this way: When you have sex with an infected partner. The virus can the body through the lining of therectum , vulva,vagina, penis, or mouth of the press during sex.

Transmitted by contact with infected blood. Before the blood was exposed by the evidence of HIV infection and before heat treatment processes for the introduction of HIV in blood products would be destroyed as factor 8 and albumin, HIV was transmitted through transfusions contaminated blood or blood components. Today, as control of blood and heat treatment of blood products, HIV risk is extremely low for these transfusions.

During pregnancy or childbirth. Approximately one quarter to one third of all pregnant women with untreated HIV, the infection to their children. HIV infection and may spread to babies through breast milk of mothers with HIV. If the mother is the drug AZT during pregnancy can significantly reduce the chances that your child may have been infected with HIV. If doctors faced by mothers with AZT and deliver their children by cesarean section, where opportunities for children infected can be reduced to a rate of one percent. A sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, genital herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea or bacterial vaginosis, and people are more vulnerable to increased risk of acquiring HIV infection during sex with infected partners appear.


Through the sharing of needles and syringes to find (eg, injection drug intravenously) was affected by very small amounts of blood from someone infected with the virus. It is rare to give but one patient, an HIV among health workers or vice versa by accidental sticks with contaminated needles and other medical institutions.

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