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Written by Kimberly Dayton
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According to the Center for Disease Control, more than a million people in the United States are HIV-positive, and 21% of them don't know it.
The most effective way to find out if you're infected is to get an HIV test. The virus causes few symptoms until very late in the progression of the disease, when it has spread so far throughout the body and done so much damage to the immune system that the body has deteriorated into full-blown AIDS. At this point, most HIV-infected people have about a year left to live, and they may have been spreading the virus to their sexual partners for over a decade. |
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Written by Kimberly Dayton
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HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) is not easy to transmit from one person to another. The virus dies quickly outside the human body. No animal -- insect, dog or monkey -- can infect a person with a bite, because HIV only survives inside the human body. Nor can HIV travel between human hosts simply because they kiss, hug, shake hands, share a toilet seat, eat with the same forks and knives or drink from the same glasses. |
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Written by Kimberly Dayton
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The symptoms of HIV are some of the most important symptoms to monitor for. Unfortunately, these symptoms will change from one phase of the disease to another. More so, they can be different from one person to another person too. It is essential for anyone that could have been infected with the disease, such as anyone that is sexually active, to have regular screenings for such diseases. The fact is that during the first phase of the disease, which happens just after you have gotten it, the condition can actually have no symptoms at all. This is why testing is very important for anyone that is regular sexually active, especially if they are with more than one partner, or their partner is with more than one person. |
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