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            HIV/AIDS is transmitted in several ways. The paragraphs below will outline each way that it can be transmitted, and how it can't be. Generally, HIV is the disease that is transmitted as that is the basic form of AIDS .
             HIV is transmitted in sexual intercourse. To protect against sexually transmitted diseases, you need to wear a condom. Condoms are the most effective way of reducing risk of STD's. .
             The disease is also transmitted through an open cut. Infected blood seeps through the cut, spreading around your bloodstream. You must have contact with an infected person for this to happen. One way for this to happen is through biting. If a HIV + person bites you, and blood goes through the cuts, the disease is transmitted. Biting may occur during a sport match, or just a fight on the street. .
             HIV is transmitted when a baby is infected with the virus during pregnancy or birth, or through breast-feeding. This happens when the mother is infected with the HIV virus, and it is passed on to the baby. .
             Another way that HIV is transmitted is through a shared needle. Drug addicts in particular, who are desperate and will do anything for the required drug, may ask a person who is HIV/AIDS+. As a result of using that needle, with the droplets of blood being injected into the body, the person will have contracted HIV. .
             HIV cannot be transmitted through touching or kissing a HIV+ person. Some people believe to the contrary, because of personal thoughts or old information. The fact is that the only way that it can be transmitted is through blood. .
             HIV attacks the immune system by spreading itself around the circulatory system. HIV has a particular chemical attraction to the CD4 cells (also called the T4 cells or sometimes called T-cells). .
             Once HIV gets into a cell, it can take over the genetic material of the cell and turn the cell into a factory of HIV producing cells. The fresh HIV cells then go on and infect more cells.


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