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So you have thought you will contact aids because you have shaken hand with an AIDS patient! Or are you afraid because you have come to know that you have shared the bathroom and swam in the same swimming pool with the person infected with AIDS.

Are you skeptical about the food that has been cooked by an AIDS patient or do you stay away from the blood drives for the same fear of contacting AIDS? Or do you have the impression that you have the risk of catching AIDS through sweat, cough or sneeze of the infected person? Do you really believe that you can get AIDS if bitten by the same mosquito that bit an AIDS patient? Well, if these are your ideas regarding the transmission about HIV, then I must say you are grossly under informed. It’s high time that you start doing some meaningful researches to know the real causes of HIV transmission in the human body.

Here are some instances where you have the chances of contacting this deadly disease.

Suppose you have undergone a blood transfusion following an accident. There are chances of HIV virus entering your body through the donated blood. Suppose the carrying mother contacted AIDS, then the child will be born with AIDS viruses in his blood. Do you have this dangerous habit of changing your sex-partner every alternate day? Then you are at a high risk of being infected with AIDS, as unprotected sex with a partner having AIDS is the most potent cause of AIDS.

Then another way AIDS virus can enter your body and that is by using a needle with the remains of AIDS infected blood in it. You can also get AIDS if the blood from the wounds of an infected patient gets into yours by an open wound.

So you can see, AIDS is hard to contact and it is not a contagious disease in the sense flu is. AIDS causing HIV virus is spread through the blood; it does not survive in the sweat, tears or air.

Here are some tips to help you prevent this disease.

-Avoid having unprotected sex with multiple partners. Never reuse condoms.

-Be careful to take only HIV free blood, if you ever need to take blood at all.

-Never pick up any needle from the ground and never let it enter your body.

-Always use disposable needles and syringes.

-Be careful not to share needle at the time of body piercing or tattooing.

-In the salon, never share razor.

-You can kiss an AIDS patient in the cheek, but do not go for deeper kiss, as AIDS virus can be sometimes found in the saliva.

Barney Garcia
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AIDS is a common fad among people that they can contract AIDS by any of the ways they are aware of, but the fact is that one can never get affected by AIDS directly. Usually, it is the HIV virus that reduces and kills the body immune system, and it is a gradual process through which one can acquire AIDS.

This disease is not caused due to any deficiency in the body like other diseases. It can only be ‘contracted’ through external agents. Usually, it is contracted if there is direct contact of body fluid with the affected person. The body fluid can include blood or sex fluid. Tears and saliva exchange might not be as harmful.

The disease is already very dreadful and ultimately will lead to death, then why should AIDS patients be left to die such deaths everyday in isolation? The society condemns such people by thinking that they are a threat to the society, but if we think logically, then the society is a much bigger threat to them. They can contract many diseases by talking to normal people and those diseases might lead to their death!

Causes

The most common cause of AIDS is considered to be the unprotected sex. Sex without taking proper precaution like condom is very much responsible for AIDS. AIDS is generally transmitted through the semen. It is estimated that more than three million people round the globe had died through AIDS. During the prenatal stage also it is found that the mother will transmit the disease to the fetus before it is born. AIDS is transferred to the blood through the means of transfusion of blood into another’s body cell. Besides these, AIDS can also be caused through the use of injections which are not properly sterilized in the process of taking drugs or blood into the veins.

Symptoms of AIDS

symptoms will only occur if HIV is developed into AIDS and the symptoms of AIDS are a result of series of infections called opportunistic infections that do not normally develop in humans with healthy immune. Why they are called opportunistic infections? Because they do not happen to people with healthy immune. But since AIDS destroys the immune system, they will occur in infected people. What are common symptoms with AIDS infected people? They are fevers, sweats, weakness, weight loss, and a series of “rare” infections and cancers.

AIDS Preventions

Mothers can share AIDS with their infants during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding, and there is no way to stop it short of not becoming pregnant. But here is the list of preventable HIV/AIDS transmissions:

- Penetrative oral, vaginal, or anal sex (Unprotected)

- Blood transfusion

- In health care settings

- Drug injection

Types of AIDS

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2. Digital hearing aids – It is not only the most convenient; it can help specific hearing problems. A health care professional will help with the decision on the most beneficial hearing aid and then adjust them to the user.

Ricky Ponting