- Pregnancy, delivery, or nursing may transfer HIV to a newborn. HIV prophylaxis and therapy have reduced its incidence.
- Sharing needles, syringes, or other drug injecting equipment with an HIV-positive person puts you at risk for HIV.
- Surprisingly, the workplace, by a contaminated needle or sharp item.
- Medical field. US blood, organs, and tissues are checked rigorously. Transfusions, blood products, and organ transplants are unlikely to transmit HIV.
- Food contamination and the only known cases are among infants. Contamination occurs when blood from a caregiver’s mouth mixes with pre-chewed food, and an infant eats it.
- Biting, spitting. Few known occurrences involved serious tissue injury and bleeding.
- Deep, open-mouth kissing is uncommon, but it may transmit if both parties have sore or bleeding gums.
- Tattooing or body piercing may transmit HIV if the equipment or ink contains blood.
Through constant conversation, some of these other reasons can get highlighted and allow people to know that sometimes things happen out of their control. The significance of getting tested is emphasized heavily after an HIV diagnosis. Likewise, we must encourage more participation in clinical studies from the general public.
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Daily HIV Medications & Therapies
Discovering your HIV status is important since many options are available to help you stay safe. You may achieve undetectable status by taking medicine, which means you no longer have detectable virus levels in your system.
The quantity of HIV in circulation may be reduced to negligible levels with daily antiretroviral medication, as reported by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Therapy reduces detectable viral loads by stopping the virus from replicating.
Much progress in HIV treatment and study has been made, maybe more than is generally understood. Therefore, on December 14, HIV Cure Research Day was established to call attention to the ongoing efforts to find a cure.