AIDS/HIV

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your body to control or get rid of
because of the loss of many of the white blood cells in your body. The most
common causes of death for the people with AIDS are pneumonia and Kaposi's
sarcoma. Kaposi's sarcoma which shows up as purple lesions on the skin and
tumors known as B-cell lymphomas have affected 70% of the infected people.
AIDS is transmitted in three main ways. Intimate sexual contact such as
having vaginal, anal or oral sex with someone who is infected with HIV is the
most common. While direct contact with infected blood, like sharing needles for
injecting drugs, HIV also can be passed from an infected mother to her baby
during pregancy or childbirth. Although some people speculate, you cannot
receive the disease from kissing on the cheek and it is very unlikely that you
could get HIV even from open mouth kissing, you also cannot get the
disease/virus from close hugging, touching, cuddling, and massages as long as
there isn't any open cuts or abrassions. HIV ...

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