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  2. HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Some countries or jurisdictions, including some areas of the United States, have laws that criminalize HIV transmission or exposure. [298] Others may charge the accused under laws enacted before the HIV pandemic.

  3. Circumcision and HIV - Wikipedia

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    Male circumcision reduces the risk of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission from HIV positive women to men in high risk populations. [1] [2]In 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated that male circumcision is an efficacious intervention for HIV prevention if carried out by medical professionals under safe conditions. [3]

  4. Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    In this area, the routes of transmission of HIV is diverse, including paid sex, injecting drug use, mother to child, male with male sex and heterosexual sex. [102] However, many new infections in this region occur through contact with HIV-infected individuals from other regions.

  5. Women and HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) declared "prostitutes" a risk category of contracting HIV. [21] Female (as well as male) drug users were observed to contract the disease. [21] [22] 1983 The NIH began to hire female nurses such as Barbara Fabian Baird to research AIDS. [21] [23] The Women's AIDS Network was established. [21 ...

  6. The only HIV vaccine in a late-stage trial fails, a major ...

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    Additionally, research published in the mid-2000s showed that voluntary medical male circumcision lowers the risk of female-to-male HIV acquisition by about 60%. This led to a major effort to ...

  7. Sexually transmitted infection - Wikipedia

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    When the HIV infection becomes life-threatening, it is called AIDS. People with AIDS fall prey to opportunistic infections and die as a result. [60] When the disease was first discovered in the 1980s, those who had AIDS were not likely to live longer than a few years. There are now antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) available to treat HIV infections.

  8. HIV/AIDS in Lesotho - Wikipedia

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    VMMC is widely recommended as a prevention strategy, with research in sub-Saharan Africa finding that female-to-male HIV transmission decreased by 38–66% over two years (Gray et al., 2007; Bailey et al., 2007). [28]

  9. First cases of HIV transmission through cosmetic injection ...

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    Three women who had so-called “vampire facials” at a New Mexico spa appear to have been infected with HIV, marking the first cases of the disease being spread through cosmetic injection ...