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- What is AIDS?
- Symptoms of AIDS
- Causes of AIDS
- Prevention of AIDS
- Risk factors for AIDS
- Complications of AIDS
- When to see a doctor about AIDS
- Diagnosis of AIDS
- Conventional treatment of AIDS
- Alternative/complementary treatment of AIDS
- Living with AIDS
- Caring for someone with AIDS
There are some risk factors for developing AIDS which are almost entirely unpreventable:
- Health care workers - people who work in the health care industry can be at a slightly higher risk than the average population of being accidentally pricked with a syringe that has had blood infected with the human immunodeficiency virus. There are many precautions in place to prevent this from happening, so it is rare, but can happen
- Mother with AIDS - a pregnant mother will most likely pass on the HIV infection to her unborn child. African mothers especially are prone to unfortunately infecting their unborn child with AIDS as are drug users in Western countries
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There are some risk factors for developing AIDS which are entirely preventable:
- Sharing needles - drug users who share needles that have already been used by someone else to inject drugs is another way that the HIV can be passed on and infection can occur which can lead to AIDS
- Unhygienic blood tests - today, there is very little chance of getting infected with AIDS through a blood test, but it still can occur if the needles have not been cleaned properly, if the person administering the blood test has been infected and if there is any infected blood in the syringe
- Unsafe sex - the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) generally cannot pass through the latex material of a condom. Always use a condom with unprotected partners (or mouth dam) to prevent any possible infection from an infected person who may not even know they have this virus
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< 4: prevention of AIDS 6: complication of AIDS > Last reviewed: 24 August 2007 || Last updated: 15 March 2009
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Disclaimer: This guide is not intended to be used for diagnostic or prescriptive purposes. For any treatment or diagnosis of illness, please see your doctor.
