When a person receives the news that they are infected with HIV, they have to be thinking, “How did I get it?” HIV is only spread through direct exposure to infected blood. This includes sexual contact, sharing of needles or syringes used for intravenous drugs, blood transfusions, or from an infected mother to her baby, either by childbirth or breast-feeding. Transmission through blood transfusions is very rare today, because of the extensive testing of the nation’s blood supply. However, before testing was required, many people, especially hemophiliacs, received HIV through tainted blood. Also, only about thirty percent of the children born to HIV-positive mothers actually become infected themselves.

The AIDS epidemic is expanding at a rapid rate. At first, HIV infection in the United States was concentrated in the homosexual community and in individuals who received blood products, such as those with

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