Thus, it has been suggested that HIV evolved from viruses that originally infected monkeys in Africa and was somehow transmitted to people. ... These conditions brought about an increase in cases of sexually transmitted diseases, including AIDS. ... These groups include heterosexual men and women, children born to HIV-infected women, people who inject drugs, and younger homosexual men. ... Symptoms/ Incubation period Many people do not develop any symptoms when they first become infected with HIV. ... The most effective preventive strategies are to refrain from all sexually intimacy or re...

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Most people think of a deadly virus that is transmitted by sex, needles, or blood transfusions. ... In the year 1981, researchers thought this disease was found in only gay men therefore calling it "gay cancer or gay-related History of AIDS 9 immune deficiency", (So little time... 1998). When heterosexual men and women began developing these same symptoms, they realized that it wasn't only a gay man's disease. ... It is said that he had about two hundred fifty sexual partners per year. ... Only after his sexual relations did, he informs his History of AIDS 10 partners that ...

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