How is HIV transmitted?

The most terrible disease of the twentieth century - AIDS - is one of the stages of the development of HIV in the body. Since the whole world learned about AIDS and HIV, the ways of transmitting the disease have become one of the most pressing issues. Since curing the disease at this time is not possible, then protection is the only way not to become a victim of HIV.

In order to protect yourself, you must first know how HIV is transmitted.

Sexual way - the virus is transmitted through sexual contact with a sick person. When the first patients studied the environment, where the virus can live, it turned out that it is in the sperm and vaginal fluid that it has the greatest concentration in the body. In addition, the virus can be found in other liquid media - in saliva, sweat, urine. However, the level of the virus content here is not so great, therefore, in the transfer to the partner nothing is threatened. The virus can be perceived by all organs and parts of the human body, so you can get infected with oral sex, anal sex and the traditional vaginal.

The virus is transmitted through the blood that enters the body. That is, the blood of an infected person, which contains a significant number of viruses, must get into the bloodstream of a potential patient. Most often, this happens during blood transfusion, in addicts when using shared needles, when using someone else's shaving accessories, in case of accidental injury, an object on which the blood of an infected person may remain when drawing a tattoo. Basically, such infection routes are most often found among drug addicts who do not disdain general personal care items and have no idea of how HIV is transmitted. Such illiteracy is unforgivable, but often there is a simple disregard. At a time when HIV transmission routes were only being studied, several unsafe transfusions were documented, but now such cases are excluded.

The virus is transmitted from the infected mother to the child. It can happen at any stage, as during pregnancy, childbirth, and already when breastfeeding. In this way, you can get infected in about thirty percent of cases. The danger here is that the virus can penetrate the placenta, that is, a woman can get pregnant, have a healthy baby for a while and be healthy herself, and then, if it gets into the body of HIV, it can hit the baby at any term of intrauterine growth. The virus also enters the milk, so when feeding, the possibility of getting the disease is even greater.

People who are carriers of HIV have become leprous in society, especially given the antisocial lifestyle that they lead. After all, most people know perfectly how HIV is transmitted. The contingent of HIV-infected people is first of all homosexuals, prostitutes, drug addicts. A person who does not belong to these groups may also become, for some reason, a carrier of HIV, as there have been cases when the carriers themselves specifically infected innocent people (now this is punishable by law). In order to keep the correct distance from the HIV-infected, you need to know how HIV is not transmitted: you can not get infected in any situations when there is no contact of internal environments - during communication, sneezing, laughter, kisses, handshakes, , Towels, clothes). Here there is a main condition - a person not infected with the virus should have whole skin and mucous membranes. Only in this case it is possible to talk about the safety of communication with an infected person.

In addition to the transmission of HIV, it is necessary to remember such serious facts:

• Even with one sexual encounter, you can get HIV. Therefore, if one time passed, then the second time it is better not to test fate.
• HIV is not transmitted with insects, so do not bite insect bites and HIV symptoms.
• In beauty salons for casual cuts, the worker must additionally treat the wound with alcohol, not to mention the pre-treatment of tools. After all, this way you can get not only HIV, but also more common hepatitis C.
• Through the donor blood , it is almost impossible to get infected - now all donors undergo a preliminary blood test, therefore only healthy blood is poured.