How do people get AIDS?
People get AIDS or HIV (the virus that causes AIDS) when fluids in their body mix with the fluids from someone else’s body that is already infected with the virus. Theses bodily fluids that spread AIDS include blood and semen, which is released when two people have sex. AIDS is usually passed on from one person to another through sex, infected drug needles, or to a baby from an infected mother. When two people have sex, the fluids from both of their bodies mix together, so if one person has AIDS, the other person will probably get AIDS too.
AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, a disease that makes it difficult for the body to fight off infectious diseases. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes AIDS by infecting and damaging part of the body’s defenses against infection, namely the white blood cells known as CD4 helper lymphocytes (pronounced: lim-fuh-sites). The only known way for HIV to be transmitted from one person to another is when it is spread from the inside of an infected person’s body to the inside of another person’s body. This can happen when infected fluids — such as semen (also known as “cum,” the fluid released from the penis when a male ejaculates), vaginal fluids, or blood — are passed from one person to another. Someone can become infected even if only tiny amounts of these fluids are spread. How does someone become infected? HIV can be spread through sexual intercourse if one of the partners has the virus. It can be spread through an infected person’s blood, semen, and secretions f
People acquire HIV which eventually becomes AIDS. It is usually transmitted through unprotected vaginal intercourse, anal intercourse and sharing IV drug needles. It can also be transmitted through oral sex in which case the “giver” is at risk due to contact with vaginal fluids or semen. Before HIV awareness, infections occurred from blood transfusions. That risk is almost zero now. HIV is found in large quantities in blood, vaginal secretions and semen NOT saliva. So you can not acquire HIV infection from just kissing an infected person.
