How Do You Get The HIV Virus?

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You can keep from getting HIV by avoiding behaviors that might result in contact with infected blood, semen, or vaginal fluids.


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Practice safe sex to prevent HIV. Always use a condom during sexual activity, unless you are in a relationship with one partner who does not have HIV or other sex partners.
If you do have sex with someone who has HIV, it is important to practice safe sex and to be regularly tested for HIV.
Reduce your number of sex partners, preferably to one partner.
Talk with your sex partner or partners about their sexual history, as well as your own sexual history. Find out whether your partner has engaged in high-risk behaviors.
Avoid alcohol and drugs, which can impair both your judgment and your immune system. People who know and understand safer sex practices may not practice them when they are under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Do not share intravenous (IV) needles, syringes, cookers, cotton, cocaine spoons, or eyedroppers with others if you use drugs.

HIV infection is a viral infection caused by the human immunodeficiency virus that gradually destroys the immune system, resulting in infections that are hard for the body to fight, and it usually results to AIDS. Anal sex is the most common way of getting HIV/AIDS, sharing needles, kissing someone with an open wound in their mouth, etc. So be careful who you sleep with and who you kiss.

The HIV virus is carried in bodily fluids most commonly blood.
You have to have contact with some kind of bodily fluid to contract HIV that is why safe sex is considered using a condom it puts a barrier up to prefent transfer of fluids. I hope this helped with your question.

HIV is a disease caused by someone who has sex with alote of diffrent people.
if you have sex with someone with HIV you can get HIV without protection.

Contamination of blood with HIV-containing fluids, such as in a blood transfusion, sharing needles, or unprotected sexual contact.

i can tell your like 7 dont u learn this in family life?