8. HIV can spread through: Air, water, saliva, tears or sweat Mosquitoes Casual contact like shaking hands or sharing dishes Closed-mouth or “social” kissing A person receiving treatment for HIV cannot spread the disease Partners who are both HIV positive need not practice safe sex Common misconceptions
9. Flu like symptoms Fever Rash Muscle aches Swollen lymph nodes and glands Extreme weight loss Sweaty nights Early symptoms
10. Chronic yeast infections or thrush(yeast infection of the mouth) Fever and/or night sweats easy bruising Bouts of extreme exhaustion Unexplained body rashes Appearance of purplish lesions on the skin or inside mouth Sudden unexplained weight loss Chronic diarrhea lasting for a month or more Severe symptoms
19. found out i had hiv when i was pregnant at 16, was only with the lad 3 months and he didn't tell me he had it received a text when we broke up saying "go get tested in 3 months left u a little present" thought nothing of it until i found out i was pregnant then it all come together, at the moment, I'm getting numbers and advice i will get him put inside and not let him do what he did to me to other girls, i will get money and i will live a good life with MY daughter, he has nothing to do with MY child i refuse to let a hopeless scum bag into her life..I cried and cried for 2weeks then i sat there one day and i thought do i go through the rest of my life weeping or do i just live it to the fullest i wont let him or hiv ruin my life, its not a death sentence and ill be ok. Im healthy and ive met some amazing people since having it i look at life through a different light an appriate people around me so much more. I have an amazing boyfriend now who is hiv- but he accepts everything that comes with me and my daughter is the best thing to happen to me when ever i feel down i just look at her beautiful smile and think well if ididnt meet him i may not have hiv but i also wouldnt have this beautiful ray of light in my life. Summary: 16 year old girl who got pregnant and her boyfriend left her she has HIV. Real stories about real people in U.S.A.
- The image is an electron microscope image showing the white blood cell (pink colored body) with the HIV on the surface (green spheres)-
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/basic/index.htm#spread- The virus cannot reproduce outside the bodyIt cannot survive for very long in insects, and they tend not to inject the blood of the person or animal they last bithttp://www.webmd.com/hiv-aids/top-10-myths-misconceptions-about-hiv-aids?page=2Effective HIV treatments can reduce the amount of virus in the blood, but the risk of infection is not eliminated completelyPartners who are both HIV positive should still practice safe sex to protect themselves from exposure to other strains of HIV that could potentially be drug resistant