How does one get AIDS?
357535
First of all, you can't get AIDS... you can get HIV, which destroys your immune system over time and once that immune system is obliterated you are now considered AIDS positive. So, to answer your politically correct question: You CANNOT get HIV by kissing, transfering saliva, etc. You can get it by sharing needles during drug use, etc., having unprotected and sometimes even protected sex, crossing blood with an HIV+.
633200
AIDS is an abbreviation for an immunity deficiency syndrome. With aids, your lungs usually become infected to the point of pneumonia (fluid build up). The infection that causes the fluid can not be treated because your immune system is shot. The fluid builds up until you can no longer breathe. You drown and die. It is sad. And it is - for now - a hopeless disease.
1068884
Well while those are the most common way to contract AIDS, you can also get it anytime your blood or bodily fluids come into contact with someone else's blood who has AIDS. So if you were to help clean up a cut of someone who had AIDS and by chance also had a cut on your hand and their blood got into your cut there is a very good chance you would contract it as well. Any other possible way is very rare and almost certainly unlikely, because you're not gonna wear someone else's dirty underwear or anything like that, lol
1034764
sexa nd how it leads 2 aids, sex first tho, tell about aids wen a lil bit older
561817
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.
490213
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS or Aids) is a collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV),[1] the late stage of which leaves individuals prone to opportunistic infections and tumours. Although treatments for AIDS and HIV exist that slow the virus' progression, there is no known cure.
265227
For aids, they take your blood anonimously and give you a password. When you go to get the results, you tell them the password and they give you a sealed envelope with the result. \nIn my country I didn't have to pay anything, but I believe that differs.
589646
use a condom and don't hit on straight men and, 1. Straight people like me will not have a problem with you, 2. Your chances for getting AIDS will severely drop, if you already have AIDS, you got some choices: 1. go to cuba, theyll set you on an island so that you do not infect the other populaste, and they fund you for free, 2. DON"T HAVE SEX!!! duh, what happens if you got into bed with a horny Bi? then it would spread pretty fast... the best I think would be to find the guy that gave you AIDS and beat his f**king face to a pulp for infecting you and countless others.
769505
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.
742224
Nope,\nYou can only get HIV through blood, including blood transfusion, and sex (anal, oral, and vaginal).  If you are a heroine user and you shoot up the drug through a needle, and you have HIV virus, and someone else uses that same needle they can also contract the virus as well.  Those are the only ways.
988292
we cant....it is a monstrous task, and one that will not be eradicated until a cure is found.  Most of these people do not fully understand what aids is, or don't even know it exist, or don't believe it is real.  I was watching a discovery channel presentation and they asked this African woman if she believed she could get aids, her response, "Only bad people get aids"
297107
It is possible to transmit AIDS by saliva but not very often.  It's more often transmitted by blood or sexually.  AIDS is an STD.  People often transmit it by using already used needles.  It's more likely to be transmitted by kissing if you have an open wound in your mouth, like a cut on your lip.
482534
HIV can be transsmited only by blood or seminal fluids. Hope u understand this. If u eat semen or vagunal fluid u can get it
240746
you could get hiv if there infected.
449258
Studies have shown that there are more HIV/AIDS infected straight people than homosexuals.  To answer your question the way you can get infected from oral is if the sucker has open sores in their mouth and you have a cut on your penis to allow the strain to mix into your blood.  Many misconceptions about HIV is that you can get it from saliva, which is untrue.
1068189
HIV is a blood bord disease. You can not get it from kissing. You would have to swallow over a gallon of infected spit to have to worry. You can't tell by looking at a person that they have HIV. I have had it 17yrs . The main ways to catch HIV is by sharing needles, unprotected sex, and getting someones infected blood in an open cut. But it is also hard for a woman to give it to a man. So if you are around blod don't touch it, just be safe and be careful...
569898
No one knows what produced AIDS, but it came from somewhere in Africa.  Sex, and passing of bodily fluids such as blood, and semen can pass Aids or HIV rather from one person to another. AIDS comes in the later stages of HIV.  So technically HIV produces AIDS.  But sex does not produce HIV, it is simply a means for it to be passed from an infected person to a non infected person.