How Could  Two People Spread AIDS  So Far and Wide? Is Sex Among Nations So Common?
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Now days people can travel anywhere in the world in 24 hrs. Plus alot of it was spread thru blood transfusions.
1024946
the only way to deal with AIDS is information and education, if you can believe it, in parts of Africa there are men who believe having sex with a virgin will cure them of AIDS, until myths like this are put to rest AIDS will continue to be a scourge in Africa, as for poverty in Africa, keep in mind most African countries are basically agrarian societies, the cycle of warfare keeps people from pursuing their natural occupations, break the cycle of warfare and you solve poverty. these countries need stable governments. how you solve that i do not know
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Among the highest risk groups to catch AIDS are the gay men. This is coz men have natural tendency to have sex with multiple partners and physical intimacy involves penetration and exchange of body fluids (semen). The mucous lining of rectum is delicate and get ruptured with minor bleeding but enough to let the virus into the blood stream. or the virus from the one partner's body can travel through the urinary tract of the other and be transmitted. If indulging in unprotected sex with an HIV+ person the virus can very well get transmitted. On the other hand lesbians are among the lowest risk group as the sex does not involve exchange of body fluids (if the scientific reports that HIV does not spread through saliva holds true).
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The following numbers are old, and they're all pretty much guesswork anyway, so take them with a grain of salt.  But I venture to say most people in the field would agree with my conclusions.\n\nAccording to a report by researchers Norman Hearst and Stephen Hulley in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the odds of a heterosexual becoming infected with AIDS after one episode of penile-vaginal intercourse with someone in a non-high-risk group without a condom are one in 5 million. With a condom it's even safer--one in 50 million. Just to put this in perspective, the chances of someone in your family getting injured next year in a bubble bath are 1 in 1.3 million (source: The Odds on Virtually Everything, Heron House, 1980). You're in much greater danger of being struck by lightning (1 in 600,000), having your house bombed (1 in 290,000), or being murdered (1 in 11,000).\n\nThe numbers get a lot worse if you engage in "high-risk behavior"--having sexual intercourse or sharing needles with a member of a high-risk group, e.g., a gay or bisexual male or IV drug user from a major metro area, or a hemophiliac. The chances of getting AIDS from one such encounter range as high as 1 in 10,000 using a condom to 1 in 1,000 unprotected. Even if your partner tests negative for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the chances of infection from a high-risk person are still relatively high--1 in 50,000 without a condom. That's because there's a 45 to 90 day window during which a newly infected person can infect others but test negative. (A few people go as long as 180 days.)\n\nFrom there on out, statistically speaking, things deteriorate pretty fast. If your partner is HIV-positive, your chances of getting AIDS after one night are 1 in 5,000 with a condom, 1 in 500 without. Have sex with an HIV-positive partner 500 times using condoms and your chances escalate to 1 in 11. Skip the gift wrap and they're 2 in 3.\n\nA couple points: These odds apply equally to men and women. Although there's reason to believe male-to-female AIDS transmission happens more often than female-to-male, the amount of difference is unknown. Also, I have to emphasize again, the numbers involve a lot of guesswork. The authors admit they could be off by a factor of ten in either direction. Still, one message comes through loud and clear: by far the best thing you can do to avoid AIDS is to be picky about your partners. Use of condoms reduces your risk by a factor of 10, sleeping only with people who test negative reduces it by a factor of 5 to 50, but avoiding high-risk partners reduces it by a factor of 5,000. (You'd also be well advised to avoid high-risk behavior, such as unprotected receptive anal sex.) Asking for a resume may not be romantic, but it beats Kaposi's sarcoma.
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Okay...gay people aren't "prone" to AIDS.\n\nAIDS is passed through the exchange of bodily fluids.\n\nIt is very common to exchange bodily fluids during ana1 sex, as this often involves tearing of the tissues.  Therefore, ana1 sex is considered high-risk (along with sharing needles and such).\n\nHomosexuals do not necessarily have more partners than do heterosexuals (in fact studies show quite the opposite).
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First off, nobody "gets" AIDS.  One "gets" HIV which then *MAY* progress to AIDS.\n\nHIV dies almost immediately upon being exposed to air.  It can not live for very long at all outside the body--mere seconds at the most.  Theoretically, one can contract HIV from a toilet seat.  However, a very specific set of circumstances would have had to occur.  A person who has HIV bled or otherwise left on this hypothetical toilet seat some amount of HIV-infected fluid.  Then, you would have to *IMMEDIATELY* sit down on the toilet seat and you would also need to have placed a cut or other opening into your body directly on the blood or other fluid.  Then, you MIGHT contract HIV that way.  But who sits down on bloody toilet seat?\n\nAs far as convincing your mother that touching something will not give her HIV try this tactic:  If HIV *was* spread through touching items, many, many more people would have it.  In fact, even she might have it *IF* it were spread so easily since, chances are, she's either come in contact with HIV.  Or someone she's come in contact with has contact with someone with HIV.  Or someone that person has come in contact with has come in....  Well, you get the idea.
831010
Aids virus has been suggested that it is Biological warfare compound and that HIV is indeed attached to the Aids virus. \n\nThe reason it is so prevalent in Africa is that the peoples in Africa are very susceptible to parasites and other pathogens, so much so that their immune systems are compromised. It didn't originate there though.
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If your talking broadly, Africa is the #1 leading country with AIDS/HIV. As far as locally, anywhere. That's the scary thing about today. Any one could look squeaky clean on the outside and be infested on the inside. That's why protection, manogamy, and abstinence are so highly suggested.
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There is no evidence that HIV can be spread through the following: kissing; SHARING FOOD UTENSILS, towels or bedding; swimming in pools; using toilet seats; using telephones; or having mosquito or other insect bites. \nhttp://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/WSIHW000/8776/24762/195726.html?d=dmtHealthAZ\n\nAND:\n\nYou cannot contract AIDS from: beds \nbreathing \nchewing pencils \nclothing \ncombs or hairbrushes \ncoughing or sneezing \ndrinking fountains \ndoor knobs \ngiving or donating blood \ngum \nhot tubs  hugging \nkissing \nnail files \nshaking hands \n***sharing food or drinks*** \nsilverware \nsitting in the same classroom \nswimming pools \ntears \ntelephones \ntoilet seats \ntouching \ntowels \nhttp://www.caps.ucsf.edu/capsweb/curricula/aidslec.html
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aids can be contracted through sex and transferring of blood. aids can use semen and.. female sexual fluid (wtf?!) as a medium of travel, and blood. but in the case of blood, it has to enter through your blood stream (like someone has to bleed onto an open wound you have), or i guess if you have blood along with intercourse and stuff. gross
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Nobody "catches" AIDS.  However, one can "catch" HIV which may progress to AIDS.\n\nIt *is* theoretically possible to contract HIV orally. However, there have been *NO* confirmed cases of HIV transmission through oral sex and the risk of this type of transmission is very, very low.
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It is thought that there are a millions persons living with HIV/AIDS in the US.\n\nIt is thought that 4.9 million were living with HIV/AIDS in the world in 2005.\n\nThese are only collected statistics. Many countries do not have the means to track infected individuals.
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AIDS is a syndrome associated with the HIV virus, which has been isolated to a population of chimps in Africa. How it transferred from chimps to humans is anyone's guess, but my assumption would be that it was not through Homo-Pan sexual relations. I suppose the virus could pass through eating raw infected meat.
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HIV (human immunodefiencency virus) can only be transmitted through direct contact with blood or body fluids. (sexual intercourse, oral sex, sharing needles, etc.) it is unusual for HIV to be transmitted through kissing, although it is possible if one or both people have cuts, cold sores, or other open areas in the mouth or on the lips. you can not get HIV from hugging, or other contact like it. You should go to a good website for more information on HIV prevention, testing, and treatment.
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Right.  Technically, AIDS is not sexually transmitted.  The virus that causes it, HIV, is sexually transmitted, though.
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1.HIV/AIDS looks to be prominent among the gay community probably becoz this virus and the disease was first discovered in gays and was thought to infect only the gays,thus it was termed as a gay related disease but it is well know now that even hetrosexuals can get it if u sleep around with people without any protection.\n2.How we humans got it remains a mystery but scientists now belive that we got it from their bite or when man consumed bush meat.\n3.No America was not the first place,it just that this disease was first discoved in America in 1980's.It was know to have existed in Africa even earlier in the 1950's.
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Very high. But it depends if the male has intercourse with that female. Otherwise there is no chance of contraction of HIV.\n\nHIV spreads through exchange of bodily fluids (Blood and Semen). You need to refer some material on the net. You can search in the WHO and Wikipedia websites for more information.