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Transmission Of Aids - Online Term Paper

Transmission Of Aids

As we all know, AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) is a fatal infection caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). The virus attacks the body's immune system and, over a period of time, destroys it. This disables the body's ability to fight off infections by other germs and the growth of cancers, eventually resulting in death.
HIV is spread through the exchange of bodily fluids, which contain a high large amount of HIV such as blood, semen and vaginal secretions. The most common means of transmission is through unprotected sex and the sharing of dirty needles among drug users. Although HIV can be found in body substances such as saliva, tears and urine - the quantities in ...

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of transmission in Singapore and over 75% of infections throughout the world are acquired through heterosexual intercourse.
Not everybody who has sex with an infected person will get infected. However, the risks increase sharply in the presence of other Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) i.e. gonorrhea, herpes and syphilis or when the infected person has symptoms of late HIV infection. Females have an eight times greater risk of catching the infection from an infected male than vice versa whereas anal intercourse without condoms carry the highest risk of and sexual activity. The chance of catching HIV from contaminated needles is extremely high (around 80%), the chance of a pregnant mother infecting her baby is between 15 to 30%.

CAN HIV BE SPREAD THROUGH CASUAL CONTACT?
Although more than half of the general student population which we surveyed believed that HIV could be spread by insects such as mosquitoes, this is severely not the case. There has been absolutely no ...

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Added: 12/14/2005 01:44:08 AM
Category: Science & Nature
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