What can HIV be transmitted by?

Answer 1

1. Having unprotected sex with an infected person
2. Sharing needles with an infected person
3. During breastfeeding if the mother is HIV positive
4. Receiving contaminated blood during a blood transfusion
5. Getting infected blood into your own bloodstream via cuts or trauma to both people, one of whom is HIV positive

Answer 2

HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is known to be transmitted in various ways:

1) Through sexual contact (heterosexual, homosexual, oral, anal)

2) Through contaminated blood products (ex. blood containing the HIV virus)

3) Through skin piercing instruments that are contaminated with the virus (ex. needles)

4) From mother to child

Answer 3

The HIV infection can occur through unsafe sex, breast feeding, transfer of blood, transfer of semen or vaginal fluid, transfer of pre-ejaculate; HIV can also occur through birth, if the mother giving birth has this infection than the child will most likely have it also.

Answer 4

• Through sexual contact -- including oral, vaginal, and anal sex
• Through blood -- via blood transfusions (now extremely rare in the US) or needle sharing
• From mother to child -- a pregnant woman can transmit the virus to her fetus through their shared blood circulation, or a nursing mother can transmit it to her baby in her breast milk

Other transmission methods are rare and include accidental needle injury, artificial insemination with infected donated semen, and organ transplantation with infected organs.

HIV infection is not spread by casual contact such as hugging, by touching items previously touched by a person infected with the virus, during participation in sports, or by mosquitoes.

It is NOT transmitted to a person who DONATES blood or organs. Those who donate organs are never in direct contact with those who receive them. Likewise, a person who donates blood is not in contact with the person receiving it. In all these procedures, sterile needles and instruments are used.

However, HIV can be transmitted to a person RECEIVING blood or organs from an infected donor. To reduce this risk, blood banks and organ donor programs screen donors, blood, and tissues thoroughly.

People at highest risk for getting HIV include:

• Injection drug users who share needles
• Infants born to mothers with HIV who didn't receive HIV therapy during pregnancy
• People engaging in unprotected sex
• People who received blood transfusions or clotting products between 1977 and 1985 (prior to when screening for the virus became standard practice)
• Sexual partners of those who participate in high-risk activities (such as injuection drug use or anal sex)

AIDS begins with HIV infection. People infected with HIV may have no symptoms for 10 years or longer, but they can still transmit the infection to others during this symptom-free period. Meanwhile, if the infection is not detected and treated, the immune system gradually weakens, and AIDS develops.
HIV is commonly transmitted by having sexual intercourse or sharing an injection equipment such as a needle with a person who has HIV. You can not however catch AIDS, you only contract AIDS if you already have HIV.

Answer 5

HIV can spread through following ways

1. When had sex with a person already suffering from HIV

2. When have an unprotected sex with your partner .

3 .When have an oral sex ,if any tiny cuts in the body the virus may infect you with HIV.

4. When brestfeded a baby when mother is a patient of an HIV.

5. Mastuburation does not cause HIV.

6. Person had Anal sex may have more chances of HIV than vaginal sex if had sex with an infected person.

*ADVICE*

PLEASE USE CONDOMS WHEN PLAN TO HAVE SEX IT DEVELOPS MUCH MORE INTIMACY INTO THE LOVERS.

Answer 6

The exchange of bodily fluids. This could be anything from catching your self with a needle contaminated with blood to having sex with somebody who has HIV or AIDS

Answer 7

The most common ways HIV is transmitted is via sexual contact, sharing of infected needles, and breast milk.

Answer 8

HIV is transmitted through body fluids like blood and semen.