i mean how it spreads and how can we know that we are suffering from it
and another if i do sex with two or more girls without using any safety i mean condom ya any other then what will happen?????????guys plzzz help me i have several doubts about it i have to clear it all...sorry i forget to tell my age is 16 It's very good that you get information now, and not ask "Did I got AIDS?"... Congrats!
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) causes AIDS (aquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Being HIV+ doesn't mean you have AIDS (yet), HIV slowly destroys your immune system, so you won't be able to fight infections, when you start being clinically sick, doctors say you have aids.
HIV lives in your blood and other fluids (semen, vaginal fluids). You can get HIV by sex, sharing needles (in drug users), or any other contact with HIV+ blood (transfussion, organ transplantation, blood droplets in you eye/mouth, this is a risk for health care workers, though the transmition risk is very low in these cases)
Condoms reduce a lot the risk of transmition, (reduce, not eliminate). Some people have had unprotected sex with HIV+ patients, and don't get infected, some people had sex once in their lifes, and got it, so... condom is a must!!! Besides, it also protects you against other STD's.
If you have sex with one or more girls, with no protection, and one of them has HIV, your risk increases. You do not get AIDS from a person who doesn't have it (this might sound fool, but it's been asked on YA)
There are two ways to diagnose HIV/AIDS, before the patient shows any symptom, with tests like ELISA and Western-Blot. If someone got AIDS last night, and takes a test today, it will come out negative, the test can take up to 6 months to be positive. The other way, is when the patients get's sick, then doctors run tests to confirm it.
Any one with an active sex life should get tested for HIV and other STD's once a year.
Check out:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/
http://www.who.int/hiv/en/
http://www.aids.gov/
and to be honest, wikipedia has some good info too.
Take care! Be safe! HIV is transmitted by unprotected sex with someone who has HIV, sharing needles for drug use with someone who has HIV, and it can be transmitted from an HIV+ mother to her child through birth or breastfeeding. Multiple sexual partners increase risk of infection because the more partners you have, the greater the chance that one of them is infected. Remember, if you have multiple partners, each one of those partners could have multiple partners of their own.
HIV is not transmitted by saliva or casual contact. You can touch, hug, or even kiss someone who is infected, and not get infected yourself. The only time that kissing someone who has HIV is a risk is if you both have bleeding gums or open sores in your mouths. You can not get HIV by touching objects that someone who is infected has touched. Once outside the body, exposed to air, HIV only survives for a few minutes.
You can NOT get HIV from someone who does NOT have HIV. However, most people who have HIV have no symptoms for several years, so you can not tell someone is infected just by looking at them. The ONLY way to find out if you have HIV is to get tested. More than 98% of people who have HIV would test positive within 3 months, but in very rare cases, it could take up to 6 months for someone to test positive.
Important: Once someone is infected, they CAN pass the virus on to others, even if they do not have symptoms, and even if they do not yet test positive.
HIV is a virus that damages the immune system by killing cells our bodies use to fight infections. Once that cell count drops to 200 or below, diagnosis changes to AIDS. As the CD4 cell count drops, the person becomes more vulnerable to other illnesses, including colds, flu, pneumonia, and many others. HIV itself does not kill a person. The person dies of one or more of the other infections that they get because their body can no longer fight it off.
There is NO cure for HIV, but treatments can help many people who have HIV live longer, healthier. There are plenty websites that can provide this information.
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/basic/inde...
scroll down to "how it is and is not transmitted"
If you have sex with 2 girls and niether of them or you are infected with HIV, you're fine.
There are other STDs(Sexually transmitted Diseases) such as herpes that you should be aware of. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=hiv&ygm... |
