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  2. Understanding AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Full contents of Understanding AIDS (PDF format) The pamphlet contains simple information about AIDS and HIV, and factual descriptions of how it is transmitted through sexual contact and drug use. It advocates for abstinence, monogamy, condom use, and sex education for young people. It encourages the reader not to fear day-to-day contact with ...

  3. File:Understanding AIDS.pdf - Wikipedia

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  4. HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment in people with HIV/AIDS also is associated with suicidal ideation, memory problems, and social isolation. Employment increases self-esteem, sense of dignity, confidence, and quality of life for people with HIV/AIDS. Anti-retroviral treatment may help people with HIV/AIDS work more, and may increase the chance that a person with HIV ...

  5. Women and HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Women can transmit the HIV/AIDS virus to other women through sexual intercourse. [14] However, the U.S. does not statistically categorize HIV/AIDS transmission in forms other than heterosexual, intravenous drug, or indefinable transmission. [3] Due to lack of research, statistics on women-to-women transmission of HIV is unknown. [15]

  6. HIV-affected community - Wikipedia

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    The affected community (also known as the HIV-affected community) is composed of people who are living with HIV and AIDS, plus individuals whose lives are directly influenced by HIV infection. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This originally was defined as young to middle aged adults who associate with being gay or bisexual men, and or injection drug users.

  7. Needle sharing - Wikipedia

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    This is a primary vector for blood-borne diseases which can be transmitted through blood (blood-borne pathogens). [2] People who inject drugs (PWID) are at an increased risk for Hepatitis C (HCV) and HIV due to needle sharing practices. [3] From 1933 to 1943, malaria was spread between users in the New York City area by this method.

  8. Criminal transmission of HIV - Wikipedia

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    Criminal transmission of HIV is the intentional or reckless infection of a person with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is often conflated, in laws and in discussion, with criminal exposure to HIV, which does not require the transmission of the virus and often, as in the cases of spitting and biting, does not include a realistic means of transmission. [1]

  9. Misconceptions about HIV/AIDS - Wikipedia

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    Misconceptions about HIV and AIDS arise from several different sources, from simple ignorance and misunderstandings about scientific knowledge regarding HIV infections and the cause of AIDS to misinformation propagated by individuals and groups with ideological stances that deny a causative relationship between HIV infection and the development ...