So After reading My Mission now the questions is how exactly does one get HIV/AIDS? HIV is found in specific bodily fluids and if any of those enter your body you can be infected with HIV.
HIV can be transmitted through...
- Sexual Contact
- Pregnancy, Childbirth and Breast Feeding
- Injection Drug Use
- Occupational Exposure
- Blood Transfusion/Organ Transplant (rarely)
Bodily fluids such as blood, semen, pre-seminal fluid, breast milk, vaginal fluids and rectal mucous contain high levels of the HIV virus. These bodily fluids are were HIV lives and reproduces.
Not all bodily fluids contain enough of the HIV virus to infect you unless they are mixed with blood and you have a significant or direct contact with them. Feces, nasal fluid, saliva, sweat, tears, urine and vomit don't contain enough of the virus to infect someone with HIV.
AIDS is the late stage of the HIV infection. Once a person's immune system is severally damaged and has difficulty fighting diseases and certain cancers they move from having HIV to AIDS. Before the development certain medication people living with HIV would progress into AIDS in a few years. Many life changing medications have been developed and they are allowing people to live much longer with HIV before it develops into AIDS.
After reading the facts above, this goes to show that there are more ways to get HIV than being gay. I loathe stereotypes and I wish they could be thrown out the window. I have found people will search out any kind of stereotype they can find before they search out the truth.
Will you stand up and take the stand with me against this stereotype?
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