HIV-AIDS transmission routes

• April 19, 2024

The National Registry of HIV-AIDS cases in adolescents reports that in 2009, 900 men and 241 women between 15 and 24 years old were infected.

A study of young adolescents by Dr. Martha Farías, of the Epidemiological Research and Adolescent Health Services Unit, IMSS Jalisco, indicates that adolescents' perceptions of risk of sexual behavior are contradictory and present doubts about the ways of contagion, related to oral sex, anal, intimate caresses, the use of sex toys, intercourse interrupt and about the possibility that saliva is an HIV-infecting fluid.

The main routes of contagion among others are :

1 Having sex without protection with someone who is infected.

2 Use of injection needles or transfusions of contaminated blood with the virus, also by donations of semen through artificial insemination, skin transplants and organs that are infected.

3 By mothers who are pregnant and infect the baby, either during pregnancy, childbirth or through breastfeeding.

They are not contagion routes

The President and founder of the Center for Advanced Research and Therapeutics in Immunodeficiency - CITAID, Dr. Feregrino Goyos, pointed out the means by which HIV is NOT contagious:

-Insect bites.

-Saliva, since it has a substance that inactivates the HIV virus, it is only recommended when both people who share fluids such as kissing, should try not to do so if they have ulcers or heavy bleeding in both mouths.

-Eating on the same tableware or sharing utensils with a person with HIV / AIDS

-Take the same water.

-Use the same toilet.

-Living, working, studying or doing any activity, under the same roof with people with HIV / AIDS

-Care people with HIV / AIDS

-Use the same clothes.

-Use of public sanitary facilities such as swimming pools, restrooms, restaurants and others.

-Bearing, greeting, kissing or having any casual contact with people with HIV / AIDS

Dr. Goyos mentions that it is not advisable to use the same nail clipper, toothbrush and rake.
 

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