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A 3 page overview of AIDS. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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problem in many parts of the world, most especially Africa today. As such it is a condition that people need to know more about, understanding how people can contract it
and what can be done to prevent contracting AIDS. The following paper provides a general overview of AIDS. AIDS AIDS actually stands for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. AIDS
can only be acquired through being infected with HIV, Human Immunodeficiency Virus. "The word acquired means that AIDS is a disease that can only be transmitted in very specific situations.
AIDS is not a disease that people can catch like a cold or the flu" (LIAAC. 2005). Therefore, in order to understand what AIDS is and how a person gets
it we must look at how people contract HIV and how that is transmitted. This is because AIDS itself is not something that can be transmitted. AIDS is the result
of contracting HIV and not all people who contract HIV will "acquire" AIDS. The virus, HIV, is primarily transmitted through sexual contact and intravenous drug use. Women can pass
the virus on to their unborn children and it is also found in the breast milk of an infected woman. Years ago people who were given blood were sometimes inadvertently
given blood that had the virus in it and they thus contracted HIV. Today there are tests that are used to ensure that those who get blood do not get
tainted blood. In terms of sexual transmission it is often noted that only through tiny cuts where blood may be present can a person get HIV. As one author
notes, "HIV can only be transmitted if one of these infected fluids enters the blood stream, either through contact with the mucous membranes of the body, such as the mouth,
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