HIV Transmission & Prevention

Medical science has known for some time how HIV is transmitted but much of the general public remains confused as to what constitutes a risk for HIV to be passed on.  This has led to some people taking unnecessary risks while believing themselves to be safe and, at the other end of the spectrum becoming unnecessarily worried about contracting the virus HIV.

HIV is not an easy virus to transmit. It exists in a number of human bodily fluids but cannot survive for long outside the body. This means that in order for HIV to be transmitted three conditions must be satisfied:

HIV infection must present (i.e. the transmitting person has HIV)

Contact with certain bodily fluids (either direct or indirect)

Infected fluid must get DIRECTLY INTO their body.

In this section you can find information about how HIV is most commonly transmitted with reference to the bodily fluids that HIV is present in and the routes by which HIV can get into the body.

Bodily fluids containing HIV / Routes of HIV infection:

How HIV can be transmitted

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